‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ – The New York Times

As true now as it was when he wrote it, the first chapter of “The Black Swan”, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. LJ

“The central idea of this book concerns our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly the large deviations . . . ”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/chapters/0422-1st-tale.html

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