The Black Swan: Second Edition  (English, Hardcover, Taleb Nassim Nicholas)

Needless to say anything about the book and its author. Awesome!

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This book re-emphasizes a place for the "iconoclasts", "mavericks" and "skeptics" that the world needs in such trying times when noise is passed as information and mediocrity's celebrations is adnauseum. Or maybe it was always like this throughout human history.

I was glad to learn that the human brain has not developed since the early caveman days (Oh How we have fooled ourselves this long)

This book teems with "intellectual rigour and integrity" stirring emotions in me that I have not fel...