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.
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.
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.
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.