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The Black Swan
Philosophy
Most consequential events are unforeseeable in advance and over-explained in retrospect. Why our intuition about tails is broken.
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Jeff Bezos
Farnam Street's compilation explains that Bezos circulates The Black Swan to senior leaders because 'experimentation and empiricism trumps the easy and obvious narrative' — the worldview behind Amazon's willingness to absorb multi-billion-dollar failures.
- Naval Ravikant
- Patrick Collison