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

3.0

4 stars for the content. 2 stars because the author is such an overbearing jerk. Average: 3 stars. (The author says explicitly he doesn't care at all what random reviewers think of him. Fair enough. But he also point out what an unbearable world it would be if everybody thought and behaved like him all the time. So perhaps I should give him another half a star for knowing he's a jerk, and then subtract the half point for not caring. There are gems of insight in this book, but if I have to go mining for the good stuff, I would rather the gems were in haystacks, not dung heaps.)