Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2023-09-07
Books mentioned on #691: Nassim N. Taleb & Scott Patterson — How Traders Make Billions in The New Age of Crisis, Defending Against Silent Risks, Personal Independence, Skepticism Where It (Really) Counts, The Bishop and The Economist, and Much More
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a popular exploration of the massive role that chance, luck, and probability play in human success, finance, and everyday life.
Discussed“and there was among the hedge fund Community there was this book that a lot of hedge fund managers like to talk about sort of like this secret book that they were passed around that they said was really great it was called Fooled by Randomness”
Where to get it
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The Black Swan
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a provocative non-fiction book exploring the massive impact of rare, highly improbable events and human society's systemic blindness to uncertainty.
Discussed“and also that the author full by rames had a new book coming out the black SW called The Black Swan which explained you know the transition from the author was trying to Transit”
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Irrational man
Irrational Man by William Barrett is a classic 1958 survey that introduces readers to the foundational concepts and key figures of existentialist philosophy.
Discussed“and you know one of my favorite books is irrational man and I came in to Wall Street and started reading about how there's this belief that people are rational”
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Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a provocative philosophical exploration of risk, accountability, and asymmetry in human systems.
Recommended“or if you're lawyer can in the game”
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Other mentions in this episode (13) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“this led to my book skin in a game later on”
“the fellow who wrote cash 22 it's a lot of interesting folks out there”
“I think in the black s skepticism where it matters and I noticed that a lot of these big Skeptics were not skeptical of God”
“I wrote about it in in food by Randomness”
“so in the Black Swan I show the difference with the following metaphor there are environments where you may have a large deviation”
“the convexity that's the theme of antifragile”
“although antifragile is currently my most successful book it's read more in 2023 than it was was in 2013 second year publication”
“I know Black Swan is read more now than it was a year after publication”
“and I explained it in the Black Swan right before it happened I looked at the risk of fannye by deserter”
“I think fo by Randomness is the one that people like the most the blacks one what they s the most”
“the blacks one what they s the most”
“and antifragile is the one they misuse the most”
“I started the topic in antifragile but how things scale differently”