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Le Hasard Sauvage : Comment la chance nous trompe
Carine Chichereau, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.92 AVERAGE
388 reviews for:
Le Hasard Sauvage : Comment la chance nous trompe
Carine Chichereau, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.92 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
Some interesting arguments but stopped about a third of the way in. Ran out of patience with the criticisms and broad generalisations of colleagues and journalists and other people.
There is a comment - THIS IS THE SMARTEST BOOK OF ALL TIME.
And for this comment alone I give 2 stars.
There is some knowledge - no doubt about this. But it is at the same time knowledge, that sel-aware, person already knows. It is not astro-physics. Sorry.
2,5 starts for contet minus 0,5 star for boasting
And for this comment alone I give 2 stars.
There is some knowledge - no doubt about this. But it is at the same time knowledge, that sel-aware, person already knows. It is not astro-physics. Sorry.
2,5 starts for contet minus 0,5 star for boasting
Terribly written.
The author's tone is obnoxious, but that's hardly a problem if it can be substantiated; I know nothing about the stock market and all that nonsense, but I wouldn't say I learnt anything, because Taleb's overall message is 'yeah man nobody knows anything it's all bullshit but I'm the finance Socrates cause I can pierce the veil.' A fourteen-year old boy would tell me the same, and he might less arrogantly assert his superiority over other economics guys (which I have no problem of a writer doing in and of itself, for I've no love lost for those sorts) by proclaiming himself uniquely literate, because he's read Borges.
The thing about these pop-science non-fiction books is that when the writer steps into the domain that the reader is not completely ignorant of and proves himself foolish, the confidence game is over. Taleb is no longer brashly entertaining; just embarrassing. What middle-aged man brags about reading "fantasy, but for intellectuals"? Wish I could stuff this dweeb in a locker.
I'm a left-leaning, idealistic young person, so I'm inclined to view global finance as some sort of intractable moral void purely as a product of my circumstances, but this book only fed into that ignorance in the laziest way, by allowing me, if I so choose, to parrot the opinions of a guy famous for loudly calling himself smart. So, regarding the business of it all, I must remain with judgment withheld. Surely there must be something better to read than this.
The author's tone is obnoxious, but that's hardly a problem if it can be substantiated; I know nothing about the stock market and all that nonsense, but I wouldn't say I learnt anything, because Taleb's overall message is 'yeah man nobody knows anything it's all bullshit but I'm the finance Socrates cause I can pierce the veil.' A fourteen-year old boy would tell me the same, and he might less arrogantly assert his superiority over other economics guys (which I have no problem of a writer doing in and of itself, for I've no love lost for those sorts) by proclaiming himself uniquely literate, because he's read Borges.
The thing about these pop-science non-fiction books is that when the writer steps into the domain that the reader is not completely ignorant of and proves himself foolish, the confidence game is over. Taleb is no longer brashly entertaining; just embarrassing. What middle-aged man brags about reading "fantasy, but for intellectuals"? Wish I could stuff this dweeb in a locker.
I'm a left-leaning, idealistic young person, so I'm inclined to view global finance as some sort of intractable moral void purely as a product of my circumstances, but this book only fed into that ignorance in the laziest way, by allowing me, if I so choose, to parrot the opinions of a guy famous for loudly calling himself smart. So, regarding the business of it all, I must remain with judgment withheld. Surely there must be something better to read than this.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Too many anecdotes without evidence. Author's tone is annoying.
Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is a much superior book.
Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is a much superior book.