The Black Swan describes black swan theory and how to thrive during such occurrences.The Author shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them.
In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.
The idea of anti-fragility – being robust in the face of danger is something that we preparedness minded folks should understand and internalize.
I reccomend this book just for the added essay, but the entire book is definitely worth reading if you are a thinker type.
If you are a doer, and don’t care how things work then that’s okay too, It is easy to get bog down in the academic. I know that as I sit in my classes I am waiting for the nuggets of practical use.
I know that these things are important, but how can I use the information to make my life better…..
