Scott H Thompson

name Book lover, investor, thinker

Nassim Taleb's New Book: The Bed of Procrustes

18th November 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of the best-selling books The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, has a new book coming out on November 30th, 2010. The name of his new book is The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms. For fans of Ta... Read >

Black Swans and the Problem of Induction

11th November 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of the best-selling book The Black Swan. The book is concerned with randomness and uncertainty, and our chronic inability to accurately fathom and measure these phenomena. According to Taleb, a Black Swan event is one t... Read >