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Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013? by exue on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:08PM (#6976864)
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His other books Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan are more accessible - all incredibly great discussions of risk, probability, complex systems such as the global financial and banking industries, and how many attempts at risk modeling fail to recognize important unpredictable "black swan" events.
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Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013? by pastpartisan on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:13PM (#6976881)
tldr version of his books: stuff can happen that you don't expect
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Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013? by derivagral on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:47PM (#6977216)
The point is that these things are much more likely to occur than you'd like to think, not that you don't expect it.
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