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  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s *Fooled by Randomness* is a sharp, personal essay about luck mistaken for skill, noisy success mistaken for wisdom, and the human hunger to turn chance into story. Through traders, dentists, Solon, Russian roulette, Monte Carlo simulation, skewness, survivorship bias, induction and stoicism, Taleb teaches a hard lesson: the one history that happened…

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