Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He is the author of the Incerto series of books, including Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile. Based on his recommendations, Taleb seems to have wide-ranging interests, from food to philosophy to science.
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The Practice of Natural Movement
"Excited to find in my mailbox The Practice of Natural Movement."
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Perilous Interventions
"Should be mandatory reading to every student and practitioner of foreign affairs."
Blueprint
"Excited to get Blueprint as I am trying to go deeper into the notion of fractal (multiscale) localism & see what's wrong w/my thesis"
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Idea Makers
"Excellent! Only read on mathematicians by insiders."
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A New Kind of Science
"Not a book, but a monument."
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Elements of Information Theory
"The BEST book [on information theory]."
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Hopping over the Rabbit Hole
"So gripping you can read it standing up. A must read."
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Scale
"Will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four."
The Misbehavior of Markets
"The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published."
Market Wizards
"Twenty years from now, Market Wizards will still be fresh. There is no other like it."
The Invisible Gorilla
"The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail."
The Dao of Capital
"At last, a real book by a real risk-taking practitioner."
Alchemy
"Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life. Furthermore, it is funny as hell."
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Zero to One
"When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of [this author], read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic."
Adapt
"A highly readable, even entertaining, argument against top-down design."
Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
"I always always recommend Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes."
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The Longevity Solution
"Incredibly well made book."
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The Complete Guide to Fasting
"An excellent book!"
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
"A landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud."
The Formula
"[Approaches] the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have."
The Bitcoin Standard
"Bitcoin is an excellent idea."