Fooled by Randomness: – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

TAKING KNOWLEDGE LESS SERIOUSLY
This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of
uncertainty who spends this professional life trying to resist being fooled by
randomness and trick the emotions associated with probabilistic outcomes and,
on the other, the aesthetically obsessed, literature-loving human being willing to
be fooled by any form of nonsense that is polished, refined, original, and
tasteful. I am not capable of avoiding being the fool of randomness; what I can
do is confine it to where it brings some aesthetic gratification.