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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

5 books in The Lindy Library — spanning Philosophy, Economics

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — book cover

Fooled by Randomness

A book about the hidden role of chance in markets and in life, arguing that we systematically underestimate the impact of randomness while overestimating skill and cause-and-effect narratives.

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — book cover

The Black Swan

Taleb's analysis of rare, high-impact events and our tendency to explain them after the fact. A fundamental challenge to how we think about risk and prediction.

The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — book cover

The Bed of Procrustes

A collection of philosophical aphorisms exploring antifragility, uncertainty, ethics, and the human tendency to force reality to fit our models rather than the other way around.

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — book cover

Antifragile

Taleb's framework for things that gain from disorder and volatility. Introduces the concept of antifragility as the opposite of fragility.

Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — book cover

Skin in the Game

An argument that having personal risk in the outcome of decisions is the foundation of fairness, commercial efficiency, ethics, and the resilience of systems. Without skin in the game, experts and institutions become dangerously detached from consequences.

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