NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity & incomplete information in economics), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness). He mainly derives his intuitions from a 2-decade long and intense practice of derivatives trading ("nondull" activities with plenty of randomness).
发表于2024-12-22
The Bed of Procrustes 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在希腊神话中,普罗克拉斯提斯是一个小城邦的主人。他招待客人的方式非常独特:他引诱旅人进门,为他们提供丰富的大餐,然后邀请他们在一张非常特别的床上过夜。他非让这张床刚好和客人的身长一丝不差。如果客人个子太高,他就用锋利的斧子把他们的腿截短;如果客人个子太矮,...
评分简直就是好书,2年前第一次看,没看出什么感觉,觉着也就一般,一堆名言警句的凭什么卖这么贵。 2年后今天再次翻,完全碉堡,三观的革新,其实,最近一年,一直在路上,这本书是标志最终革新的确认。而且名言的精炼也很适合白羊座的悟性高的我。 想起上一次革新三观的阅读体验...
评分我看书有个习惯,在看一本书前我往往会等《纽约时报》的书评,然后再去看看亚马逊网上群众的意见。之所以如此做,是因为作为村上忠实的粉丝,我和永泽一样坚信人的生命有限,不应该去读那些不值得读的书,否则机会成本真是太高了。永泽的解决方案是只读经典,我虽然在很大程度...
评分我喜欢装帧精美的书,也许是因为我是个女生。思想的深度需要慢慢积累,16岁,看米兰昆德拉的书几页就放下了,我期待自己的长大,期待不是因为翻译和语言的差异而不能领悟其中。19岁,终于看懂了纳博科夫的Lolita, 看清,只是时间的问题,只是我们需要慢慢长大,不急不躁。期待T...
评分这本书对于不会英语的中国人来说,只有二十分之一是有用的,我是在最吵闹的公共环境,马路上读完的。在这种环境下,能得到这本书并读这种书,真是两项最佳选择! 它全篇都是几十个字的短句,3倍于字的行距,左右双版,左边是英语原文的草书,右边才是中国字。正迎合了信息爆炸时...
图书标签: 思维 哲学 taleb 英文 感悟 思想 Aphorism 美国
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
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评分有点像《沉思录》,全篇充满作者各种短小精炼的感悟。这得看读者喜欢不喜欢这样的格式。我更喜欢附有一大段阐释的精句,比较好消化。
评分第一本完整读完的英文书——其实连小册子也算不上,只是一本语录集。Taleb的aphorism颇有江湖气,读来足以畅怀。有些话虽比较刻薄或刻意,但反常规的思维值得借鉴。
评分到后面有些重复
评分wow, what a surprise. terrible.......totally ruined my conception about Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书