The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas TalebMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a good expenditure of my time. Taleb makes a coherent argument about things I've previously thought about but vaguely dismissed both because of my desire to be normal and my fear of potential "black swans." I say "vaguely dismissed" because I can't actually dismiss my fears by just telling myself they are irrational; I can only avoid taking action to prevent the consequences.
I didn't totally understand all the writing about models in Part 3, but this doesn't seem totally necessary to understanding his larger points.
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