{"product_id":"incerto-fooled-by-randomness-the-black-swan-the-bed-of-procrustes-antifragile-skin-in-the-game-incerto","title":"Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan, the Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game (Incerto)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The problem with Taleb is not that he's an asshole. He is an asshole. The problem with Taleb is that he is right.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Dan from Prague, Czech Republic (Twitter)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Gray, \u003ci\u003e GQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Taleb grabs on to core problems that others ignore, or don't see, and shakes them like an attack dog on a leg.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Greg from New York (Twitter)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For my wife and me, \n\u003ci\u003eAntifragile\u003c\/i\u003e is an annual reread.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Colle from Richmond, Virginia (Twitter)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I read \n\u003ci\u003eAntifragile\u003c\/i\u003e four times. First, to get the wisdom to survive. Second, as a memorial statement for Fat Tony. Third, as \n\u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e with correct mathematics. Fourth, as ethics to learn a good way to die.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Tamitake from Tokyo, Japan (Twitter)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"November . . . time for my annual reread of \n\u003ci\u003eAntifragile\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Johann from Vienna, Austria (Twitter)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNassim Nicholas Taleb\u003c\/b\u003e spent twenty-one years as a risk taker before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. His books, part of a multivolume collection called \n\u003ci\u003eIncerto, \u003c\/i\u003e have been published in forty-one languages. Taleb has authored more than fifty scholarly papers as backup to \n\u003ci\u003eIncerto, \u003c\/i\u003e ranging from international affairs and risk management to statistical physics. Having been described as \"a rare mix of courage and erudition,\" he is widely recognized as the foremost thinker on probability and uncertainty. Taleb lives mostly in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Line\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe landmark investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't understand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51502795948310,"sku":"9780593243657","price":118.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780593243657.jpg?v=1783317051","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/incerto-fooled-by-randomness-the-black-swan-the-bed-of-procrustes-antifragile-skin-in-the-game-incerto","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}