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And Taleb wrote a whole book of fluff called Black Swan that had no insight whatsoever and could be summed up in one paragraph
by ekianjo 3y ago
And Taleb wrote a whole book of fluff called Black Swan that had no insight whatsoever and could be summed up in one paragraph
- yellow_lead 3y agoThey're like self-health books posing as insightful.
- monero-xmr 3y agoIt’s great if you received wisdom from his fiction books but if you actually think he has made any profits whatsoever from his trading advice you are going to wind up empty handed. It’s like learning a great writer of crime novels is actually a housewife from Missouri - a great imagination, but all of their ideas come from TV.
- rfrey 3y agoTo be fair, his first (and best) book was about dynamic pricing of options, and wasn't simply (ahem) derivative like his philosophy stuff.