Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
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One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'
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One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.
MrBeast recommended 'Zero to One'.
This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.
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One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.
One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.
Garry Kasparov recommended "Thinking, Fast and Slow" on his website.
An insightful and resourceful guide for any entrepreneur, dreamer or Presidential candidate."
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I dog-eared and marked up damn near every page.”
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And it now has a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.
This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future."
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Michael Mauboussin: "One of my favorite science books in 2018"
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Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.
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The Dao of Capital mixes (rather, unifies) personal risk-taking with explanations of global phenomena. You cannot afford not to read this!”
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