The Black Swan By Nassim Taleb Full Book Summary
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The Black Swan By Nassim Taleb Full Book Summary

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. The Sunday Times called his 2007 book The Black Swan one of the 12 most influential books since World War II.

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Our full book summary: 53min
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:58 The Apprenticeship Of An Empirical Skeptic
06:31 Yevgenia’s Black Swan
06:58 The Speculator And The Prostitute
11:05 One Thousand And One Days, Or How Not To Be A Sucker
13:19 Confirmation Shmonfirmation!
16:14 The Narrative Fallacy
19:30 Living In The Antechamber Of Hope
22:09 Giacomo Casanova’s Unfailing Luck: The Problem Of Silent Evidence
26:38 The Ludic Fallacy, or the Uncertainty Of The Nerd
29:48 The Scandale Of Prediction
34:17 How To Look For Bird Poop
38:54 Epistemocracy, A Dream
41:33 Appelles The Painter, Or What Do You Do If You Cannot Predict?
45:13 From Mediocristan To Extremistan, And Black
48:06 The Bell Curve, That Great Intellectual Fraud
50:07 The Aesthetics Of Randomness
51:40 The Uncertainty Of The Phony
52:24 Half And Half, Or How To Get Even With The Black Swan
53:15 Epilogue

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