Title: A random collection of ramblings (buy Black Swan instead?)
Product review: I managed to read the entire book (which means its an easy read and decent enough. I will not go so far as to say its worthless, as I say its a 'decent' book). So, here's my bottom line. Each chapter has the same unfounded examples-- Taleb casually mentions someone did something and concludes 'see, its random'. He does this over and over again. Fortunately, he concludes the book by acknowledging he's as dumb as the rest of us. His thesis does seem to have 1 definitive source of proof: by random chance many, many people (including me) have been fooled into buying this random book. Maybe his 2nd book, Black Swan, is an improved version-- I would suggest (randomly, since I haven't read it) to just start with Black Swan.
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