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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812982404)
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xThe author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditations--now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by stretching them or by cutting their limbs. It represents 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. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition with the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phonies.
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN-10: 0812982401
ISBN-13: 9780812982404
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by stretching them or by cutting their limbs. It represents 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. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition with the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phonies.
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN-10: 0812982401
ISBN-13: 9780812982404
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
xNassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a fl穗eur meditating in caf駸, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is "decision making under opacity"--that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don't understand. Taleb's books have been published in forty-one languages.
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