A review by gemberry
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Did not finish book.

"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.