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Written by Curtis McHale on 2025-01-30 at 20:20

The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This is supposed to be some all fired amazing book about randomness. The title is derived from the idea that Europeans thought all swans were black until they visited Australia and suddenly found a black swan. They had no way of knowing that what they thought was true was untrue until confronted by the evidence.

https://curtismchale.ca/book/the-black-swan-nassim-nicholas-taleb/

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