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I find the author constantly try to jam personal stories not to make a point but to tout his own credentials. I am not fond of his writing style. Despite it being about logic and statistics, I don't see a coherent narrative being made, just a bunch of stories interspersed with some over-simplified theories.
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Arrogant self absorbed asshole with nothing to say.
The central concept of the book, the consequences of the difference between a Gaussian distribution and a distribution in which the tails do not diminish as they get further from the mean, is interesting. The book is repetitive and bloated in discussing this point, a common flaw in this genre. But the author is just *unbearable* in his arrogant small-minded fragile narcissism, making the reading of the book a real burden.
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The author discusses concepts which are interesting, but there’s a lack of deep dive into the topics. There’s no lack of non-fiction authors who write with grandiose pompousness, but Nassim Taleb wins the gold medal by assuming his readers did not have a clue to what a Black Swan is or even consider survival bias prior to reading his book. Also spends a good amount of the book writing smack about various people, industries and profession which I didn’t really care for, and doesn’t outright name all the different types of biasness or logical fallacies he mentioned, but instead delves into lengthy and unnecessary paragraphs to explain them.
I'm not quite sure how to share thoughts about it, so I will not. Just take the book and read it, see what is hidding!
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