The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Jerome Stern as well as the plan

as well as the plan they need to use them effectively

the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends

Based on years of research in the area of attachment and bonding

the acclaimed Silicon Valley journalist who co-founded Wired and founded The Industry Standard

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Jerome Stern as well as the planA black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet weespecially the expertsare blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.