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Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost... by fpoling on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:53PM (#19088445)
“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Taleb. It is hard to compress it into a short summary, but it can be something like “be very aware about unknown unknowns”.
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Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost... by flazzarino on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:47PM (#19089028)
It is highly compressed! but not in a dense way, distilled might be a better term.

He writes my favorite books.

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