Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author)

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Works:

• The Black Swan - Summary at Blas.com

• The Black Swan - Summary by FourMinuteBooks

• The Black Swan

Recommendations:

• Mapping the Mind

• Deep Learning

• I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy

• Rational Decisions

• The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

• The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

• A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness

• The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century

• Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

• Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

• Statistical Models: Theory and Practice

• Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People

• Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

• The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

• Probability Theory

• The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

• No Bull: My Life in and Out of Markets

• A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

• The Blank Swan: The End of Probability

• Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

• Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

• Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004

• The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy

• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

• Collected Fictions

• Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger

• Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools

• Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance

• Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

• Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts

• Thinking and Deciding

• Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos

• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

• Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) - Summary by FourMinuteBooks

• The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie, #1)

• Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson

• Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes with Errata Sheet

• Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs

• Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

• Information: The New Language of Science

• A Guide To Econometrics

• Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

• Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

• Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics

• The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice

• The Tartar Steppe

• The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal

• Consciousness - An Introduction

• The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

• How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality

• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

• Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

• The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War

• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World

• The Crocodile

• The Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall #1)

• Social Cognition

• Modern Aramaic Assyrinan/Syriac: Swadaya-english / Turyo-english / English-swadaya-turoy: Dicitonary and Phrasebook

• Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind

• Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

• The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

• The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older

• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

• The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

• The Birth of Tragedy

• 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List

• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

• Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

• Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper

• The Opposing Shore