7/3/2023 0 Comments The black swan effect book![]() For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan so was 9/11. ![]() A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable it carries a massive impact and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. ![]() ![]() Print Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable ![]()
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