NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity & incomplete information in economics), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness). He mainly derives his intuitions from a 2-decade long and intense practice of derivatives trading ("nondull" activities with plenty of randomness).
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
1. 思维清晰是勇气的结果,而不是反过来。 2. 傻瓜认为自己是特殊的,别人都是普遍的;聪明人认为自己是普遍的,别人都是特殊的。 3. 绝大多数沉迷于信息-网络-媒体-报纸的人都很难接受,获得智慧的主要方法是从头脑中除去垃圾信息。 4. 愚人的陷阱是,你会关注你知道而别人...
评分咬文嚼字的哲学家 虽然有时悲观 却也用俏皮话说出真相 语录是从原书中抽离的 所以不能够很好的体会到原本更深层的意思 但 只是读语录 就不禁想要赞叹作者的精辟见解 原书定是充满了智慧的灵光 读的过程有深思也有大笑 有的句子忍不住读出声来 写的太有哲理 读上一遍又...
评分我先引用书里面的一句话——“聪明人能容忍别人的小缺陷,但不能容忍别人严重的自相矛盾;弱者能容忍别人严重的自相矛盾,但不能容忍别人的小缺陷”。(P95) 但恕我直言,作者自己就给自己打脸了。作者序言部分提到“普罗克拉斯提斯之床”的概念,意图表明“遇到我们不了...
评分#書# 2012《随机生存的智慧》6/10 作者:Nassim Nicholas Taleb 譯者:严冬冬 出版社:中信出版社 副標題:黑天鹅语录 出版時間:2012-6-20 頁數:180 把原標題《The Bed of Procrustes》改成《随机生存的智慧》,原副標題《Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms》改成《黑天...
评分我喜欢装帧精美的书,也许是因为我是个女生。思想的深度需要慢慢积累,16岁,看米兰昆德拉的书几页就放下了,我期待自己的长大,期待不是因为翻译和语言的差异而不能领悟其中。19岁,终于看懂了纳博科夫的Lolita, 看清,只是时间的问题,只是我们需要慢慢长大,不急不躁。期待T...
魔鬼词典。。。。。。
评分第一本完整读完的英文书——其实连小册子也算不上,只是一本语录集。Taleb的aphorism颇有江湖气,读来足以畅怀。有些话虽比较刻薄或刻意,但反常规的思维值得借鉴。
评分魔鬼词典。。。。。。
评分好书,摘一句 - ”You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.“
评分Most of what I fear has the titillating prospect of adventure.
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