On today’s episode, Clay reviews Nassim Taleb’s book – Fooled by Randomness.
Nassim Taleb is a Lebanon-born American mathematician and statistician whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He’s very well known for his popular books, including The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and Fooled by Randomness.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness -Book Summary
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