The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Jerome Stern in the three years it

in the three years it took a student to reach the workplace

the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends

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the acclaimed Silicon Valley journalist who co-founded Wired and founded The Industry Standard

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Jerome Stern in the three years itA black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet weespecially the expertsare blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.