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Taleb going down as the best author of the 21st century.

>> No.14269825

>>14269820
Mention just one book of his that is actually good.

>> No.14269826
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>>14269825
Antifragile is Taleb's magnum opus

>> No.14269877

>>14269820
Stop shilling this sand-nigger.

>> No.14270074

>>14269820
Fat Tony is the modern Falstaff

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>>14269877
IMBECILE!

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1198580736451891200

>> No.14270100

>>14270080
Coping harder than an amerimutt.

>> No.14270116

>>14270080
kek

>> No.14270237

kys taleb

>> No.14270246

>>14270080
>tfw senpai notices your shit post

>> No.14271379

>>14269826
Black Swan

>> No.14271493

Based non-Semitic Levantine of Greek descent

>> No.14271639

>>14269820
He takes the concept of fractal structure to heart by writing books that repeat the same idea over and over for 400 pages.

His ideas are true.* But you can get their full extent from a blog post.

* Except fitness. Do not take training advice from an overweight dude who looks like that while still in his fifties.

>> No.14271769

>>14271639
Repeating ideas isn't bad. An idea can be represented or systemised in an almost endless number of ways. It avoids the pitfalls of one representation.