The Black Swan
A philosophical and economic treatise on the disproportionate impact of rare, unpredictable events. Taleb examines how humans are blind to randomness and tend to rationalize unforeseen outliers only after they occur, challenging conventional risk analysis and forecasting.
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Ranked #108 of 1942 · 421 pages · Published 2005
Mentioned 8× on The Joe Rogan Experience across 8 episodes, most recently on Oct 7, 2023.
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Book data: ISBN 9781400063512. Page count from Open Library (median of editions). Cover via Open Library Covers.