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3.72 AVERAGE
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In summary, we can say that Taleb teaches us areas of prediction that we did not have foreseen, the data that remains outside the percentages are the most problematic, since we believe that by seeing 97% in a graph, we will automatically be there, why? Why don't we think about what would happen if we were in the remaining 3%? Isn't enough to avoid the problems that come from quantifying in our favor, from searching our minds for the narrative that fits our future with a fictitious convenience, because then we are not different from Catholics, trusting blindly in God or numbers , Aronofsky presents a similar thesis in his first feature Pi¸ Are the numbers of God really different? The logic of faith? Eventually the two come out of the mind following their own logic.
I repeat once again based on Taleb's learning, it is useless in the graphics to come, having read one more book, because it will open a quantitative area that will spread branches of new knowledge that we will not know, it will always be as Mark Twain suggests, more dangerous what we don't know.
I repeat once again based on Taleb's learning, it is useless in the graphics to come, having read one more book, because it will open a quantitative area that will spread branches of new knowledge that we will not know, it will always be as Mark Twain suggests, more dangerous what we don't know.
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Wow, it was hard to give a rating to this one, that's why I want to write a short review.
I don't know, the first part of the book was amazing, it really changed the way of seeing some things. It has been a while since a book was so interesting that it annoyed me when someone made me stop reading.
But after some chapters I started to get some kind of bored and annoyed by the author, still his ideas were good enough to continue reading, and nothing that could make me stop reading the book.
By the end I was honestly tired of the topic, yes NNT has a good way of showing his ideas and to explain what he's thinking, but it becomes repetitive after some time and this makes the reading kind of painful, still the main idea of the book was amazing so I wanted to finish it just to see if I was missing something, I wasn't.
The book is good, period. I would recommend it to my friends who are interested in the topic but with the warning that it can get boring at some point of the book, but it's worth it to finish it if you enjoyed the first chapters.
I don't know, the first part of the book was amazing, it really changed the way of seeing some things. It has been a while since a book was so interesting that it annoyed me when someone made me stop reading.
But after some chapters I started to get some kind of bored and annoyed by the author, still his ideas were good enough to continue reading, and nothing that could make me stop reading the book.
By the end I was honestly tired of the topic, yes NNT has a good way of showing his ideas and to explain what he's thinking, but it becomes repetitive after some time and this makes the reading kind of painful, still the main idea of the book was amazing so I wanted to finish it just to see if I was missing something, I wasn't.
The book is good, period. I would recommend it to my friends who are interested in the topic but with the warning that it can get boring at some point of the book, but it's worth it to finish it if you enjoyed the first chapters.
I think a lot of what I said about Antifragile goes for this book too, except not as good.
He is much more egotistical, his idea is less interesting, and he has less moral philosophy. It becomes progressively less fun as he gets near the end of the book and he starts talking about his actual idea. I'd rather hear about the made up characters Nero Tulip and Yevgenia Krasnova, who was so ridiculous that I found her incredibly entertaining.
I do really like how he takes a simple idea, and gives makes it come alive with all sorts of philosophical implications that would otherwise seem inconsequential. It seems like people try to wax about mathematical / technical topics and give them extra meaning, and usually come out sounding like high schoolers. I think he succeeds in presenting the black swan as frame through which you can view the world. A more factual book would have looked quite different and basically say "risk measurement is bad, because it ignores things that people didn't think of", then give a bunch of examples. The reader would say "yes" and move on.
I'm not sure how this book became very popular, but I'm glad I did, because I really enjoyed his last couple books, and maybe he wouldn't have written them otherwise.
He is much more egotistical, his idea is less interesting, and he has less moral philosophy. It becomes progressively less fun as he gets near the end of the book and he starts talking about his actual idea. I'd rather hear about the made up characters Nero Tulip and Yevgenia Krasnova, who was so ridiculous that I found her incredibly entertaining.
I do really like how he takes a simple idea, and gives makes it come alive with all sorts of philosophical implications that would otherwise seem inconsequential. It seems like people try to wax about mathematical / technical topics and give them extra meaning, and usually come out sounding like high schoolers. I think he succeeds in presenting the black swan as frame through which you can view the world. A more factual book would have looked quite different and basically say "risk measurement is bad, because it ignores things that people didn't think of", then give a bunch of examples. The reader would say "yes" and move on.
I'm not sure how this book became very popular, but I'm glad I did, because I really enjoyed his last couple books, and maybe he wouldn't have written them otherwise.
Verbosity and towering arrogance are a tough if not uncommon combo. Would have made an excellent 5,000-word essay.
I've been fascinated by the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky since a professor introduced me to them during my Undergraduate years. The reality that we act so irrationally was such an eye opener to me. Mr. Taleb's book was a further jumping off point that echoed many of the sentiments I saw in Thinking: Fast and Slow, and also reminded me quite vividly of Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics by Stephen Levitt.
There was a brutal, no-nonsense honesty to this book that I wish most of my college professors had utilized, because so much of the statisical theory I learned back then applies so flimsily to the real problems at hand that it was almost not worth learning in the first place. Still, this book was quite inspiring to me, and although I completely agree with the reality he paints, I am reminded that we must know the rules in order to break them. Similarly, we understand the problem we face. Perhaps now is the time to begin considering how to fix it.
There was a brutal, no-nonsense honesty to this book that I wish most of my college professors had utilized, because so much of the statisical theory I learned back then applies so flimsily to the real problems at hand that it was almost not worth learning in the first place. Still, this book was quite inspiring to me, and although I completely agree with the reality he paints, I am reminded that we must know the rules in order to break them. Similarly, we understand the problem we face. Perhaps now is the time to begin considering how to fix it.
Some of the info in this was great, and the main thesis is really interesting, but I just couldn’t get over the hubris and self aggrandizing nature of the way it was written.
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