The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to 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. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His work has been published in thirty-three languages.

出版者:Random House

作者:[美] 纳西姆•尼古拉斯•塔勒布

页数:366

出版时间:2007-4-17

价格:USD 30.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781400063512

图书标签:金融思维思想经济社会学投资经济学finance

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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.

The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.

Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities.

We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”

For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them.

Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory.

The Black Swan is a landmark book – itself a black swan.

The book also contains a 4-page glossary; 19 pages of notes; and, a 28-page bibliography in addition to an index.

读后感

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用户评价

思考和科学最大的对手恐怕就是unknown unknown了。也是一个人需要时刻牢记时时反思，并且保持谦卑的原因。Taleb是一个傲慢又谦逊的人，是一个最善良的朋友，又是个自负的浑球。他藐视人，却对事与真理虔诚。应用层面上有启迪之处，更有趣的是Taleb是个哲学思考者。爸爸买了汉译本，似乎译得不好，流于“畅销书”译法了。其实诙谐反讽的行文风格也是看点之一。

Common sense for any good historian (or history major). Dislike the writing style. The tone is very annoying.

My whole life depends on the fragility of a fucking swan.

能看出来作者极其聪明，但是那种深深的做trader时期遗留下来的傲慢态度为这本书大打折扣。

我赞成作者提出的概念，但是这本书的中心内容最多有十页，剩下的就是颠来倒去一点都不inspiring地反复阐述一个观点，很多例子不靠谱，很多例子对学过一点心理学或者行为金融都是再基本不过的概念。作者还花了大量篇幅自证牛b，并bs这个bs那个。用粗俗一点的比喻就是，作者说其实有一个shit一直粘着我们，你们以为是gem的东西其实是shit，我很早就发现了这shit，所以很好地live with it了，然后他如祥林嫂一般不停述说为何这是shit，用了300页，最后用了两页纸，毫无建设性地提了提他如何live with shit。读完之后最大的感受是，tmd终于读完了，终于可以骂人了。