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.

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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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