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On the flip side, I can’t recommend against reading the book enough. Your summary is pretty much enough to get the point across, minus endless pages of self-agg
by stouset 9y ago
On the flip side, I can’t recommend against reading the book enough. Your summary is pretty much enough to get the point across, minus endless pages of self-aggrandizement and throwing around preemptive ad hominem attacks toward any group he thinks might disagree with him.
I genuinely can’t understand how anyone could have made it through that book.
- Marazan 9y agoI dropped the Black Swan after only a few pages as Taleb managed, within those few pages, to simultaneously mock someone for using a personal anecdote to justify a position only to repeatedly use personal anecdotes over the next few pages to justify his position.
- rdlecler1 9y agoIt’s a shame he can’t get over his insecurities. The ideas are sound the delivery is aweful.