Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an NYT best-selling author whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. Read his five big bang book recommendations below...
T-5: Featuring Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an NYT best-selling author whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. Read his five big bang book recommendations below...
01
A New Kind of Science
BY Stephen Wolfram
This book is not a book, but a monument. I have been reading rules from it for 10 years.
02
Thinking Fast and Slow
BY Daniel Kahneman
This is 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.
03
Who We Are and How We Got Here
BY David Reich
This is a monument, not just a book. And the beginning of a new cultural program. On a scale of 0 to 100, paternity tests count as 99.99 and written/oral history should count for .01. Apply that to populations. That’s plain statistics/probability. We are seeing science in action: information theory displaces BS, the handwaving just so stories we got from historians.
04
Scale
BY Geoffrey West
Each human should learn to read and write, to count, and for those who know how to count, scalability. Scaling is the most important yet most hidden and rarely discussed attribute—without understanding it one cannot possibly understand the world. This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four.
05
Perilous Interventions
BY Hardeep Singh Puri
An outstanding book on the side effects of interventionism, written in extremely elegant prose and with maximal clarity. It documents how people find arguments couched in moralistic terms to intervene in complex systems they don't understand. This book should be mandatory reading to every student and practitioner of foreign affairs.
