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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto)

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With fifty percent more material than the hardcover, this expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t keep in mind. The other books within the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile.

By the creator of the up to date classic The Black Swan, this selection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.

The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of up to date 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 may also be tested in a classroom, and convincing people who employment isn’t slavery.

Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have got been living with but never recognized.

With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the up to date diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

“Taleb’s crystalline nuggets of thought stand by myself like esoteric poems.”—Financial Times

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