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Cargando... The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto) (2010)por Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Quite pretentious. And quite useless. The best word for describing this editorial effort is: exploitation.The metaphor which gives the book its title is useful, though. ( ) The Bed of Procrustes taught me a great deal about what inspires and angers Taleb, significantly less about what inspires and angers me, and almost nothing at all about the world. (I think "The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself" is one of the only aphorisms that encouraged, in me, a new way to see things.) It's not that there weren't interesting ideas in the book. It's just that most of the ideas I found interesting were ones I'd already considered...and I kept getting distracted by Taleb's increasing snark and cattiness as the book went on. (I have a difficult time seeing all journalists, economists, bankers, academics, consultants, nerds, newspaper readers, and men as exactly like the others of their category.) Nor were the aphorisms all that memorable for their turn of phrase. (I'm not looking for wittiness or comedy, just a sense of pithy insight or piercing clarity of expression.) In truth, I doubt I'll wish to quote, or even remember, them in a month or two. This sort of collection of aphorisms is, I think, best used for marking one's own personal journey. Buy a copy of this book. Write notes in response to the aphorisms that strike you. Put the book away for five, ten, twenty years, and then bring it out again. Do the aphorisms still strike you the same way? Are there some that didn't make sense then but do now? How has your understanding of the world---as mirrored in this handful of aphorisms---changed over the years? sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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