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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
It wasn't what I expected and I definitely did not understand everything I read. Very academic but interesting, all the same
This is one of those books where you feel you are in the author's head and what you experience is an information dump. The result is not a smooth ride and the book feels disjointed, jumping around from one topic to the next without continuity. A shorter book (or two if needed) would have been more comfortable from a reading perspective. I finished it but it was a slog.
I'm constantly looking for someone smarter than me who will read this and tell me whether it's complete nonsense or not.
fast-paced
"when you spend a couple of decades doing mass-scale empirical work with data and taking risks based on such studies, you can easily spot elements in the texture of the world that the Platonified “thinker” is too brainwashed, or threatened, to see."
How lucky for us that the author is willing to share his thoughts (which he carefully develops on his 1 year sabbaticals every 3 years).
People get things wrong and he knows things will go unexpectedly wrong so he is smarter than us all.
How lucky for us that the author is willing to share his thoughts (which he carefully develops on his 1 year sabbaticals every 3 years).
People get things wrong and he knows things will go unexpectedly wrong so he is smarter than us all.
Highly intelligent writer, sometimes hard to read but interesting at times as well.
The author has a severe misunderstanding of basic statistics and probability and spends the vast majority of the book just name dropping different famous people and events and bragging about the many places he has been and affiliations he has. The entire premise of black swans is barely fleshed out and discounts the instances where people actually have used empirical analysis to predict such described events.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Having seen this on many a pretentious finance bro's shelf, I approached this book with skepticism. I understood the premise of the book, what the author was positing and the infinite examples given but sweet jesus it reeks of the same energy of a kid arguing with a teacher in class. I would say one could read part one and the ending and come away with a full understanding of the book.
informative
slow-paced
I was always afraid that this book is very sterile, long, and hard to read. But, except of some paragraphs where the author starts using uncommon words, the book flows like a story. I usually try to be very critical while reading these kinds of books because authors don't have anyone against them and pick and twist their examples to fit their own ideas. But I resonated with him on many topics. I even laughed. So I think it is a book that should be read.