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In general the Incerto series by Nassim Taleb (Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) was worth it. The Selfish Gene, System thinking A primer, I am a s
by gmuslera 2y ago
In general the Incerto series by Nassim Taleb (Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) was worth it. The Selfish Gene, System thinking A primer, I am a strange loop, Sapiens are some books that I read recently that had a lasting impression.
- drewmcarthur 2y agoi just picked up an edition of “The Evolution of Cooperation” that has a foreword by richard dawkins. was cool to see his take, from writing the selfish gene, on axelrod’s contributions to the study of cooperation. by any chance, did your edition of his book mention those cooperation studies? dawkins said he updated a later edition in this foreward i just read
- gmuslera 2y agoIt was a old edition of the book. But I had enough of the Prisoner dilemma on it to have an introduction.
- daft_pink 2y agoIncerto is great. I’m constantly amazed by how people identifies completely opposite black swans though to justify completely opposite things when I see it quoted in public though.
- treetalker 2y agoThe Bed of Procrustes is great too, and easy to reread as a summary of the other books once you've already read them a few times individually. Taleb also wrote a forward to the recent edition of Cipolla's The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, which predates Taleb's books but is "Taleb-adjacent".