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His big idea is that sometimes, unexpecting things happen. Nassim nicholas taleb has 35 books on goodreads with 522573 ratings. The impact of the highly improbable, in which he warned about the inability to predict unusual events that. Fooled by randomness 2001, the black swan 20072010, the bed of procrustes 2010, antifragile 2012, and skin in the game 2018.
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