yodisborg 's review for:

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

2.0

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Repeats thoughts from prior book. Did you wish for more anecdotes about how impressive Taleb is, then here is the book for you. For somebody so concerned about the limits of our knowledge, he proclaims “facts” about life without any proof or analysis. He will criticize a Nobel prize winning who conducted research in economics by analogy to someone thinking the Atkins diet is successful when Taleb knows the healthiest diet is Mediterranean. His ideas against bell curve and the probability of improbable events is useful and fascinating if only a humbler and self aware writer was discussing it.