The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Hardcover Computers - Operating Systems ISBN: 9781646117031

ISBN: 9781646117031

The Places

smock and explorer's hat and get ready to paint your way through the jungle

mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune

Bardugo doesn't twist familiar tales so much as rip them open

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Hardcover Computers - Operating Systems ISBN: 9781646117031NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most influential book of the past seventy five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called "On Robustness and Fragility." A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable,