Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Book Recommendations
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American author, scholar, and risk analyst, best known for his work on uncertainty, probability, and risk. His books, including The Black Swan and Antifragile, explore how rare and unpredictable events shape the world and how individuals and systems can become more resilient to shocks. Taleb’s insights on risk management have influenced fields ranging from finance to medicine, and he is known for his outspoken criticism of conventional wisdom. His ideas about randomness, decision-making, and the limitations of human knowledge have made him a leading thinker in modern economics and philosophy.
Books in the Collection
Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Gary Taubes
This Explains Everything
John Brockman
Misbehavior of Markets
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
Peter Bevelin
Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas
Birth of a Theorem
Cédric Villani
The Blank Swan
Elie Ayache
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