Oct 17 2007
Black swans or how to not get screwed by life’s randomness
A few days back I finally finished the Black Swan - a rigorous and empirically skeptical (and darkly humorous) take on randomness, stock markets, experts, and life. I enjoyed the contents of the book as much as trying to read into the genius mind of Nassim Nicholas Taleb - a practitioner with sound footing in theory. Mr. Taleb is a genius no less and also bold and relentless with little tolerance for fools and financial ‘experts’.
I won’t belabor here - go ahead and get yourself a copy of this book. I’ll end with Carine Chichereau’s quote: “Had Nassim Taleb been born in any other period, he would have certainly been put to deathâ
