The Impact of The Highly Improbable: The Black Swan

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Remember that you are a Black Swan.

InThe Black Swan,Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them.

Yevgenia’s interest in philosophy

Five years ago, Yevgenia Nikolayevna Krasnova was an obscure and unpublished novelist, with an unusual background. She was a neuroscientist with an interest in philosophy (her first three husbands had been philosophe...