A review by josevillalta
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.0

Who should read this book? No one should really read this book. I think the target audience will be what the author calls "empty suits" MBA types that know how to sound smart, how to give good powerpoint presentations that can use a few smart-sounding bullet points. If you are looking for a popular science take, this is light on the science, but it's in there. There are few interesting ideas here narrated by a person who thinks very highly of himself. However I do like how the author states plainly and honestly that he too can be fooled. He admits that he is also all too human and we are fooled all the time.

The ideas in this book are interesting, but you can read do better and read "Thinking fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman. "Intuition Pumps" By Daniel Dennet, "Freakonomics" by Dubner and Levit and "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver.