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Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent more than two decades as a risk taker before becoming a full-time essayist and scholar focusing on practical, philosophical, and mathematical problems with chance, luck, and probability. His focus in on how different systems handle disorder. He now spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés. In addition to his life as a trader he spent several years as an academic researcher (12 years as Distinguished Professor at New York University's School of Engineering, Dean's Professor at U. Mass Amherst). He is the author of the Incerto (latin for uncertainty), accessible in any order (Skin in the Game, Antifragile, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, and Fooled by Randomness) plus a technical version, The Technical Incerto (Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails). Taleb has also published close to 55 academic and scholarly papers as a backup, technical footnotes to the Incerto in topics ranging from Statistical Physics and Quantitative Finance to Genetics and International affairs. The Incerto has more than 250 translations in 50 languages. Taleb believes that prizes, honorary degrees, awards, and ceremonialism debase knowledge by turning it into a spectator sport. ""Imagine someone with the erudition of Pico de la Mirandola, the skepticism of Montaigne, solid mathematical training, a restless globetrotter, polyglot, enjoyer of fine wines, specialist of financial derivatives, irrepressible reader, and irascible to the point of readily slapping a disciple." La Tribune (Paris) A giant of Mediterranean thought ... Now the hottest thinker in the world", London Times "The most prophetic voice of all" GQ

Fooled by Randomness

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Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Series: Incerto

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Release date: 07-01-08

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 819 ratings
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The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"

Incerto, Book 2

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins

Release date: 08-01-19

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 507 ratings
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A Man for All Markets

From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

By: Edward O. Thorp, Nassim Nicholas Taleb - foreword

Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp

Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins

Release date: 24-01-17

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
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The Bed of Procrustes

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Series: Incerto

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Release date: 30-12-10

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
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Skin in the Game

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Series: Incerto

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 27-02-18

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 874 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Incerto, Book 1

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Release date: 08-01-19

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
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Antifragile

Prosperare nel disordine

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Nicola Bonimelli

Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins

Release date: 28-05-19

Language: Italian

2.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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Il cigno nero

Come l'improbabile governa la nostra vita

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Nicola Bonimelli

Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins

Release date: 26-03-19

Language: Italian

4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Antifragile

Les bienfaits du désordre

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Tristan Harvey

Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins

Release date: 23-02-22

Language: French

5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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The Calm Before the Storm

Why Volatility Signals Stability and Vice Versa

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Gregory F. Treverton

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 27 mins

Release date: 16-01-15

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
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Antifragilität

Anleitung für eine Welt, die wir nicht verstehen

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Arvid Schalle

Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins

Release date: 13-07-23

Language: German

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El cisne negro

El impacto de lo altamente improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Roc Filella Montfort, Albino Santos Mosquera

Narrated by: Germán Gijón

Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins

Release date: 27-04-21

Language: Spanish

3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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Le hasard sauvage

Comment la chance nous trompe

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: François Montagut

Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 06-12-21

Language: French

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Skin in the Game – Das Risiko und sein Preis

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Steffen Groth

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 24-08-18

Language: German

4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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Iludidos pelo acaso [Fooled by Randomness]

A influência da sorte nos mercados e na vida [The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets]

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Sérgio Moraes Rego - tradutor

Narrated by: Flavio Kranic

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Release date: 28-09-23

Language: Portuguese

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Le Cygne Noir

La puissance de l'imprévisible

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Tristan Harvey

Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins

Release date: 12-08-20

Language: French

5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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Der Schwarze Schwan

Die Macht höchst unwahrscheinlicher Ereignisse

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Stefan Barth

Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins

Release date: 16-02-23

Language: German

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Giocati dal caso

Il ruolo della fortuna nella finanza e nella vita

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Nicola Bonimelli

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Release date: 25-06-19

Language: Italian

5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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Rischiare grosso

L'importanza di metterci la faccia nella vita di tutti i giorni

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Nicola Bonimelli

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Release date: 28-01-20

Language: Italian

5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Narren des Zufalls

Die unterschätzte Rolle des Zufalls in unserem Leben

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Stefan Barth

Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 20-06-23

Language: German

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