Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
Wall Street's principal dissident
*Malcolm Gladwell*
This] is the lesson of Taleb . . . and also the lesson of our
volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the
human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to
prepare for the unimaginable
*Malcolm Gladwell*
The hottest thinker in the world
*Bryan Appleyard*
A guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant
despot
*Sunday Times*
A superhero of the mind
*Boyd Tonkin*
The most prophetic voice of all . . . Taleb is a genuinely
significant philosopher . . . someone who is able to change the way
we view the structure of the world through the strength,
originality and veracity of his ideas alone
*GQ*
Changed my view of how the world works
*Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate*
Imagine someone with the erudition of Pico de la Mirandola, the
skepticism of Montaigne, solid mathematical training, a restless
globetrotter, polyglot, enjoyer of fine wines, specialist of
financial derivatives, irrepressible reader, and irascible to the
point of readily slapping a disciple
*La Tribune*
Antifragile broadens and extends the logic he used in The Black
Swan and applies it to everyday living ... [it] may well capture a
quality that you have long aspired to without having known quite
what it is. I saw the world afresh
*The Times*
Taleb takes on everything from the mistakes of modern architecture
to the dangers of meddlesome doctors and how overrated formal
education is. . . . An ambitious and thought-provoking read . . .
highly entertaining
*Economist*
This is a bold, entertaining, clever book, richly crammed with
insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides. . . . I will
have to read it again. And again
*The Wall Street Journal*
[Taleb] writes as if he were the illegitimate spawn of David Hume
and Rev. Bayes, with some DNA mixed in from Norbert Weiner and
Laurence Sterne. . . . Taleb is writing original stuff-not only
within the management space but for readers of any literature-and .
. . you will learn more about more things from this book and be
challenged in more ways than by any other book you have read this
year. Trust me on this
*Harvard Business Review*
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