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Let China Sleep, For When She Wakes, She Will Shake the World.

By ⋅ March 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Reposting an old review of the essential China Shakes the World by James Kynge.

Fooled by Randomness [Nassim Nicholas Taleb]

By ⋅ August 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

nassim nicholas taleb, the improbable best selling author of the black swan believes that success is illusionary (at times it seems he believes everything is illusionary – it’s all random, all luck!). his main thesis is that luck is often behind what we normally perceive to be success and that humans are hard-wired to under-estimate the role that randomness plays via various biases.

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