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There's no way around the black box element of a book review, but Nassim Taleb suggests waiting a few decades and, if the book is still well known, then reading
by FredPret 5y ago
There's no way around the black box element of a book review, but Nassim Taleb suggests waiting a few decades and, if the book is still well known, then reading it.
- bachmeier 5y agoWow. What a helpful piece of advice (I guess he's smarter than the rest of us so it's hard to understand the genius of his strategy). Any mention of the cost of missing out on the content in the book for a few decades?
- dwighttk 5y agoJust read older books until there aren’t any and then move onto newer ones. There are too many that are a couple decades old for you to ever run out. Also occasionally break the rule for a book you want to read. It isn’t like that would kill you.
- lifekaizen 5y agoLove this question. I could imagine him suggesting reading academic papers for cutting edge things; like his 'barbell' excercise strategy of mostly walking with occasional HIITs.
- phgn 5y agoThe idea behind reading older books is that they're already proven to be useful - it's a filter for you to spend less time on useless information. It's generally called the "Lindy effect"
- dhosek 5y agoI guess it's ok to read The C Programming Language, then.