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Nassim Taleb recommends 80 books focused on all. Top picks include Confessions of a Philosopher, Mean Genes, Consciousness. Nassim Taleb is an essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and ex-option trader and risk analyst of Lebanese-American descent.
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Nassim Taleb is an essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and ex-option trader and risk analyst of Lebanese-American descent.
Recommended Books
Confessions of a Philosopher
Mean Genes
Consciousness
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
Mapping the Mind
The Making of a Philosopher
I Think, Therefore I Laugh
A History of the Mind
Invariances
The Blank Slate
Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
Kant and the Platypus
The Dream of Reason
The Status Syndrome
Social Cognition
How Nature Works
The Sunday Philosophy Club
The Wisdom Paradox
Thinking and Deciding
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Zero to One
Alchemy
The Dao of Capital
The Invisible Gorilla
Market Wizards
The Misbehavior of Markets
The Bitcoin Standard
The Formula
Financial Derivatives
Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
Modelling Extremal Events
1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die
The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion
A Guide to Econometrics
Tartar Steppe
The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
No Bull
Hopping over the Rabbit Hole
The Secret of Fatima
Rational Decisions
The Elements of Statistical Learning
The Count of Monte Cristo
Order without Design
Deep Learning
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Birth of a Theorem
Scale
Ficciones
Elements of Information Theory
A New Kind of Science
Idea Makers
Blueprint
Perilous Interventions
The Practice of Natural Movement
The Complete Guide to Fasting
The Longevity Solution
Who We Are and How We Got Here
Free The Animal
Happy Accidents
Statistical Models
The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
Seeking Wisdom
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
Good Calories, Bad Calories
The Discovery of France
Explaining Social Behavior
The Blank Swan
Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
Information
Bull by the Horns
The Opposing Shore
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Body by Science
Models.Behaving.Badly.
Probability Theory
Mathematics
The Science of Conjecture
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