Books Recommended by Nassim Taleb
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Models.Behaving.Badly.
Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
Emanuel Derman
Source: "Convincingly establishes the difference between model and theory and shows why attempts to model financial markets can never be genuinely scientific." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Source: "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." - Nassim Taleb
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
Source: "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." - Nassim Taleb
The Invisible Gorilla
And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Christopher F. Chabris
Source: "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." - Nassim Taleb
2 recommenders
Probability Theory
S. R. S. Varadhan
Source: "Gives a complete overview of the basis of probability theory with some grounding in measure theory, and presents the main proofs." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Free The Animal
How to Lose Weight and Fat on the Paleo Diet
Richard Nikoley
Source: "A charming primer on the paleo idea, with an illustration through the authors own life. I read it in one sitting." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Information
The New Language of Science
Hans Christian von Baeyer
Source: "If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Blueprint
The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Nicholas A. Christakis
Source: "Excited to get [this book] as I am trying to go deeper into the notion of fractal (multiscale) localism & see what's wrong w/my thesis" - Nassim Taleb
3 recommenders
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology
Jerry A. Fodor
Source: "Horribly written (that is Fodor's charm after all) but his argumentation is so ferocious that he ends up loud & clear." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
The Formula
The Universal Laws of Success
Albert-László Barabási
Source: "[Approaches] the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have." - Nassim Taleb
2 recommenders
No Bull
My Life In and Out of Markets
Michael Steinhardt
Source: "The man is one of the greatest traders in history. There are a few jewels in there." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Isabel Dalhousie, Book 1
Alexander McCall Smith
Source: "I don't want to spoil the story but I felt that I was reading a detective story until I realized what it was..." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
The Wisdom Paradox
How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older
Elkhonon Goldberg
Source: "I am now spoiled; I need more essays by opinionated, original,and intellectual, contemporary scientists." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Bull!
A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
Maggie Mahar
Source: "[The author] had the courage to take a look at what was behind all of this religious belief in markets." - Nassim Taleb
2 recommenders
The Status Syndrome
How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Michael Marmot
Source: "Well written, humorous at times, and rigorous --it reads like a well-translated scientific paper." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Thomas Cathcart
Source: "Like a brief drink in an airplane lounge with someone funny, smart, witty, but not too funny." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Source: "A great exposition of modern scientific thinking and understanding of the nature of man." - Nassim Taleb
3 recommenders
Financial Derivatives
Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics
Jamil Baz
Source: "A condensed, but extremely deep , and complete exposition of the subject of theoretical finance." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion
Leonard C. MacLean
Source: "Finally, a compendium of the most rigorous research (gamblers ruin based) on risky decisions." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
Rational Decisions
Ken Binmore
Source: "Presents a comprehensive set of the principles and axioms behind neo-classical economics." - Nassim Taleb
1 recommender
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