Title: Wall Street meets Levant
Product review: To say the least an unorthodox book, filled with musings, life lessons and philosophy of the author and one central theme about probabilistic events and how they are perceived and misinterpreted by even well trained professionals.If Mr. Taleb had stuck to his original thesis instead of branching out needlessly and had used the services of a professional editor, it would have made a more pleasant but much shorter read. Yes, there is also way too much of Mr. Taleb in the book, obviously a very smart and cultivated man with a sizable ego, who seems to carry a certain bitterness too.What was more interesting was the clash between the Middle Eastern genes of Mr Taleb and the extremely quantitative and results oriented culture of Wall Street and West in general. This is probably what led him to the thoughts that resulted in this book.
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