Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game https://t.co/wNHHd2G70d

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"I avoid reading nonmath recent books. But if I do, best heuristic: avoid books on the NYT list of "Notable Books" " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"Ideas come and go, stories stay." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan https://t.co/HBpNpJkM4n

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"Critics may appear to blame the author for not writing the book they wanted to read; but in truth they are blaming him for writing the book they wanted, but were unable, to write." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. In real life, you don’t know who really won or lost (except too late), but you can tell who is heroic and who is not." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

"Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Fooled by Randomness