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		daft_pink 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What books have been worth your time? Incerto is great. I’m constantly amazed by how people identifies completely opposite black swans though to justify completely opposite things when I see it quoted in public though.

treetalker 10 days ago [–]

The Bed of Procrustes is great too, and easy to reread as a summary of the other books once you've already read them a few times individually.

Taleb also wrote a forward to the recent edition of Cipolla's The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, which predates Taleb's books but is "Taleb-adjacent".

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