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The Bed of Procrustes pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or 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 against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity & incomplete information in economics), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness). He mainly derives his intuitions from a 2-decade long and intense practice of derivatives trading ("nondull" activities with plenty of randomness).
好書,摘一句 - ”You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.“
評分wow, what a surprise. terrible.......totally ruined my conception about Taleb
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評分好書,摘一句 - ”You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.“
我喜欢装帧精美的书,也许是因为我是个女生。思想的深度需要慢慢积累,16岁,看米兰昆德拉的书几页就放下了,我期待自己的长大,期待不是因为翻译和语言的差异而不能领悟其中。19岁,终于看懂了纳博科夫的Lolita, 看清,只是时间的问题,只是我们需要慢慢长大,不急不躁。期待T...
評分我喜欢装帧精美的书,也许是因为我是个女生。思想的深度需要慢慢积累,16岁,看米兰昆德拉的书几页就放下了,我期待自己的长大,期待不是因为翻译和语言的差异而不能领悟其中。19岁,终于看懂了纳博科夫的Lolita, 看清,只是时间的问题,只是我们需要慢慢长大,不急不躁。期待T...
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評分我先引用书里面的一句话——“聪明人能容忍别人的小缺陷,但不能容忍别人严重的自相矛盾;弱者能容忍别人严重的自相矛盾,但不能容忍别人的小缺陷”。(P95) 但恕我直言,作者自己就给自己打脸了。作者序言部分提到“普罗克拉斯提斯之床”的概念,意图表明“遇到我们不了...
評分简直就是好书,2年前第一次看,没看出什么感觉,觉着也就一般,一堆名言警句的凭什么卖这么贵。 2年后今天再次翻,完全碉堡,三观的革新,其实,最近一年,一直在路上,这本书是标志最终革新的确认。而且名言的精炼也很适合白羊座的悟性高的我。 想起上一次革新三观的阅读体验...
The Bed of Procrustes pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024