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