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Aphorisms and apothegms, Human behavior, Quotations, maxims, New York Times reviewed
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
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Spare, character-led, cool and intimate.
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French-Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
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