Title : Fooled by Randomness
Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am surely not to first to highlight this book in this forum...but perhaps, i might be the first to comment that it is overly rated for its insightfulness and usefulness.
In the few hundred pages, there's only one and only one resounding message; and that is,
Not all swans are white.....
Now that I have completed reading Part I in all but 1 hour, I conclude that I could have better spent this time napping my Sat afternoon away. This is because if I had read this book when I was 15 years old, I would still not have found it revelationary. The sole concept that however remote a probability of an event occurring, does not preclude it from occurring, should not be more than common sense to anyone with a normal level of intelligence.
I will skip Part II and III .... but that could be bcos I've always been very cautious about reading philosophical writings.