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.
知识、优雅、勇气的组合。 虽然我一直记不住作者的名字,可以这本小书却是我近两年来读到的“说话最够劲”的书。都是警句,读起来也不费劲。 除了少数句子有点绕口之外,都是有趣的话语。译者也有非凡的功力。我注意到往往是逗号后面的那半句产生神奇的效果。这是一种写作技...
评分在希腊神话中,普罗克拉斯提斯是一个小城邦的主人。他招待客人的方式非常独特:他引诱旅人进门,为他们提供丰富的大餐,然后邀请他们在一张非常特别的床上过夜。他非让这张床刚好和客人的身长一丝不差。如果客人个子太高,他就用锋利的斧子把他们的腿截短;如果客人个子太矮,...
评分“普洛克拉斯提斯之床”——更改人的身长去符合床的尺寸——遇见未知时,我们往往选择了错误的变量去加以更改。 让我们先不对知识进行归类,让框架保持弹性,而不是将不确定的事物硬塞进我们已知已有的框架里。 创造我们的普洛克拉斯提斯之床吧~ 我们只需要想象——我们生存的...
评分去年年底买了塔勒布的《反脆弱》,看完惊为天人,又反复看了二遍,还一发不可收拾,把他的系列书籍都搜罗来看。个人觉得他是当代少有的聪明人之一。 塔勒布出生于黎巴嫩,曾外祖父和外祖父都是著名的外交家,分别在巴黎和美国拿到硕士和博士学位,精通多门外语。30岁靠着在金融...
评分去年年底买了塔勒布的《反脆弱》,看完惊为天人,又反复看了二遍,还一发不可收拾,把他的系列书籍都搜罗来看。个人觉得他是当代少有的聪明人之一。 塔勒布出生于黎巴嫩,曾外祖父和外祖父都是著名的外交家,分别在巴黎和美国拿到硕士和博士学位,精通多门外语。30岁靠着在金融...
乐色中的乐色,乐色矣
评分NNT是个old-school punk啊。
评分名言录而已
评分故弄玄虚,不知所谓。
评分格言与吐槽的本质区别在于是否有如下操作:1.高级词汇,2.丰满韵脚,3.魔性转折,4.引发令人发指的愉悦。???? (+5.硬皮装帧)
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