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I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring. You should read "Antifragile:

• mieseratte 7y ago
  > I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He's just one of today's "Lucky 10.000"[0] [0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
• dustinmoris 7y ago
  > I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring. Yeah, probably fault due to my own ignorance/bubble in which I live. But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument, because that is the best way to either learn something new, or at least learn to understand other people better. So either way I feel like I always walk away as a winner whether I agree or disagree in the end. Thanks for the recommendation!
  • coldtea 7y ago
    >But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument, Try Chesterton then. A little old but still relevant. E.g. could try Heretics.
    • kthejoker2 7y ago
      Or Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell. Or almost anything by Orwell; his crankiness knows no limits.
• huffmsa 7y ago
  Seinfeld effect RE: Black swan. The ideas have become pretty common place (though most uses of the phrase in the mainstream are incorrect) so they don't seem novel ~15 years later. And his writing has improved. Skin in the Game is the example heavy companion/ follow up to the more technical antifragile.
• amelius 7y ago
  Black Swan was just a simple analogy that the author decided to write an entire book about.