Tag Archives: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Review: The Black Swan

“Imagine a speck of dust next to planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like an ingrate who got a castle as a [...]

Affluenza, Black Swan, and F*** You Money

After reading the book, The Hot Topic (check out my review here), I was encouraged to read more books from a European perspective (I’m still here in Ireland as of this writing). So me and ~myDakini stopped by Eason bookstore yesterday so I could check out new books to read. “You’re addicted to books,” ~myDakini [...]