Nassim nicholas taleb, born in lebanon, started his career as a derivatives trader on wall street. Fooled by randomness is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. Nassim nicholas taleb, the author of the 2007 book, the black swan, has come out to say so himself in a bloomberg live interview. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas taleb s landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. To someone who tries to understand the world, reading literature might seem like wasted time. Nassim used to have a list of books he recommended on his personal website. In which order should i read nassim n talebs books, or. Similar authors like nassim nicholas taleb tastedive.
Id like to read more books with complex women characters whose life doesnt revolve around babies or pleasing the men in their life. I am often asked by journalists for a list of my favorite books i dont know what favorite means for a journalist. Authors similar to nassim nicholas taleb goodreads. Most continue readingantifragile by nassim nicholas taleb. Things that gain from disorder, nassim taleb explains the concept of antifragility. Books recommended by nassim nicholas taleb the ceo library. Everything that is alive, and everything that stays alive displays some sort of antifragility. This is the book that most likely inspired some of gladwells assertions in his bestselling book, outliers. Skin in the game is nassim nicholas talebs fifth book. True to form, taleb challenges standard conventions and longheld beliefs about a range of topics including uncertainty, symmetry, risk sharing, and rationality in complex systems. Nassim nicholas taleb skin in the game hidden asymmetries in daily life. Nassim nicholas taleb books list of books by author. Lectures and lecture requests, lecture clients please refrain from offering honorary degrees, awards, listings in 100 most.
Nassim taleb is the original, idiosyncratic mind behind fooled by randomness, the black swan, and antifragile, a bestselling series of books on the nature of complexity, randomness, and a world where rare events dominate the landscape. Taleb says musks comment on coronavirus panic being dumb. The other books in the series are fooled by randomness, the black swan, skin in the game, and the bed of procrustes. The black swan book summary by nassim nicholas taleb. Nassim nicholas taleb s landmark incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. The black swan is the second book in former options trader nassim nicholas taleb s fivevolume series on uncertainty. Discover book depositorys huge selection of nassim nicholas taleb books online. The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets. Im really interested in starting one of nnts books today, just wondering should i start with black swan or fooled by randomness. Nassim taleb s the incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, and randomness in a world we dont understand.
Nassim nicholas taleb has committed his life to issues of vulnerability, likelihood, and information. So i dont know whether this is allowed on this sub, to ask for an opinion on a specific book, but i didnt see anything in the rules conflicting this. Introduction the less obvious aspects of skin in the game prologue, part 1. Taleb spent more than two decades as a risk trader before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical and.
Nassim nicholas taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker quantitative trader before becoming a flaneur and researcher in philosophical, mathematical and mostly practical problems with probability. From the bestselling author of the black swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, nassim nicholas taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. So as a skininthegamestyle reciprocity, i will not not. He went through almost two decades as a representative and quantitative merchant before turning into a fulltime philosophical writer and scholastic analyst in 2006. In which order should i read nassim n taleb s books, or does it matter. What are books similar to nassim nicholas talebs black swan. Ps some uk bs operator, the type of journalist with an attempt at some phd in something related to physics.
That is one of many concepts nassim taleb outlines in antifragile. Nassim taleb, universa investments scientific advisor and distinguished professor of risk engineering at nyu, warned of an acute virus spreading throughout the planet in his 2007 book the black swan. This book builds on the black swan taleb puts forward evidence and definitions for fragility, robustness and antifragility, and explains where they apply in life, and why you want to strive for antifragility. For i just dont like reading books that inform me of the obvious. If you like nassim nicholas taleb you might like similar authors ray dalio, kaifu lee, martin ford, darrell huff, michael j.
This book analyzes socalled black swansextremely unpredictable events that have massive impacts on human society. An excellent book that has influenced my thinking more than almost any other, and continues to be a reference i go back to. But if you are going to read it then you must commit to reading it at least two or three times to let it. Taleb s note on keeping and rereading literature books. The impact of the highly improbable hardcover by taleb nassim nicholas and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Gladwell told the new yorker that nassim taleb, author of. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. In the black swan taleb outlined a problem, and in antifragile he offers a. Nassim taleb, the polarizing author of bestselling books the black swan and antifragile. I have read his other books and they are all good but antifragile is the synthesis of all of his ideas. He has been a professor at several universities, serving as a distinguished professor of risk engineering at the new york university tandon school of engineering since september 2008.
In january, he also warned of the systemic risks of the coronavirus. Nassim nicholas taleb, whose book the black swan foreshadowed the 2008 global financial crisis, responded to elon musks tweet about what he called a. Fortunately, this year, with skin in the game, we found out that he had more things to say on the matter. The 9 best books that malcolm gladwell wants you to read. Read the soft copy of this book anytime, anywhere and download it for free.
The incerto by nassim taleb all 5 books in one hour. Things that gain from disorder, offers 61 reading recommendations in his own words. Antifragile pdf summary nassim nicholas taleb 12min blog. For more articles like this, check out our recent articles here. The story of success, where he notes the lack of consideration we place on opportunities luck, chance, or circumstance when we survey the contributing factors to success for individuals like bill gates or steve jobs. Books recommended by nassim nicholas taleb nassim nicholas taleb is a lebaneseamerican author and flaneur a man who saunters around observing society.
He presents it sometimes as part of a triptych with his earlier works the black swan and antifragile, and at other times as a continuation, each book just as eve came out of adams ribs, seeding the central idea of the next. The other books in the series are the black swan, antifragile, skin in the game, and the bed of procrustes. Scholar, statistician and guru of riskmanagement recommends his favorite novels and the best professional books. Hmmmmm, talebs book fooled by randmoness is a more general version of his theory that lead to black swan. The other books in the series are fooled by randomness,the black swan, skin in the game, and the bed of procrustes. Taleb is the author of the incerto, a five volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 of which the most known books are the black swan and antifragile. Once they do, this medieval knight like character succumbs to the weakness of age, after having faced trials that looked nothing like those he expected.
Solid book on interventionism, should be mandatory reading in foreign affairs. Find authors like nassim nicholas taleb from the worlds largest community of readers. Likewise with randomnessuncertaintychaos, you want to be able to use them, not to hide from them. Antifragile by nassim taleb things that gain from disorder wind extinguishes a candle but energises fire. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Thankfully, with the help of the way back machine, i was able to access the entire archived list.
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