Fooled by Randomness : Review

This is a book that makes you feel hopeful and resigned at the same time.

In a world which sees causality and patterns everywhere, Nassim tries to switch the world view to one that is dominated by randomness. The whole of the book is an attempt to make the reader realize that more or less, the world runs on luck and random chance.

Nassim’s tone is irreverent throughout. Some readers might see a problem with his superiority laden remarks and lack of humility at times. Nassim often ridicules those who are very certain about their own theories and ideas but in the process comes off as someone who has the same vices and problems.

This is not the book you might want to read if you want solutions to the problem of randomness and uncertainty. The author himself agrees that he offers no solutions but only aims to educate that there is a problem. Though we are all fooled by randomness, the book is maybe a handy guide to at least realize that sometimes we are being fooled. It offers a different way to see the world and interpret the things we see. It also makes you feel, whatever way you interpret it, you are more likely to be wrong than right. In that sense the book makes you hopeful of not being easily fooled by randomness but also makes you resigned in the face truly unpredictable nature of the world.

Read this if you are looking for something which is intellectually stimulating, moderately entertaining and filled with some big ideas that might fundamentally change the way you think about how the world works.

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