Why people recommend it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan explores the profound impact of high-profile, unpredictable events and why humans continually invent retrospective explanations for them. JL Collins recommended the book on ChooseFI while discussing rare market events, noting it was a great read. Joe Rogan similarly brought up the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, discussing how people spend all their time justifying things that have already happened. David Perell mentioned The Black Swan on How I Write as an example of a backlist title that could benefit from updated metadata during unforeseen market shocks. Drew Miller discussed the title on Timcast IRL, observing that people are naturally susceptible to such unpredictable occurrences. On Modern Wisdom, George MacGill brought up Taleb's work while introducing the concept of antifragility, and Jonathan Haidt later referenced Taleb and the book on The Joe Rogan Experience while explaining how convoluted, untested banking systems collapse.
Who recommended it
- David Perell Discussed
- JL Collins Recommended
- Drew Miller Discussed
- Joe Rogan Recommended
- George MacGill Discussed
- Jonathan Haidt Discussed
David Perell — 1 mention
“Yeah, I'm thinking like if you have a book like Antifragile by Nassim Taleb or The Black Swan.”
JL Collins — 1 mention
“there's a book I forget the author's name but uh the guy wrote the book about black swans oh Nasim Nicholas taleb yeah so so he wrote this book The Black Swan which is which is a great book I highly recommend it”
Drew Miller — 1 mention
“that's what Nasim Talib wrote about in the Black Swan that were suckers for Black Swan events”
Joe Rogan — 1 mention
“have you ever read the black swan no this is a great book by um i think his name is talib and basically his theory is that human beings spend all of our time justifying things uh that have already happened and sort of explaining them away”
George MacGill — 1 mention
“yeah that's that comes from NASA Nutella NASA and Talib who wrote the Black Swan fooled by randomness and a few other interesting concepts”
Jonathan Haidt — 1 mention
“so he had predicted the collapse because he said the banking system is really convoluted and it's never been tested”