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ethwen 's review for:
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
informative
reflective
medium-paced
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.