Randomness


Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Randomness
Luck: The Brilliant Randomness Of Everyday Life
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
Chaos: Making a New Science
Beyond Belief: Randomness, Prediction and Explanation in Science
The Success Equation
Post Office
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt. ...more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Lauren Oliver
Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. And very, very rarely - by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute - you get the chance to do the right thing. ...more
Lauren Oliver

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