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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…

  • Getting More

    A student talks a departed airliner into returning to the gate without saying a word. Diamond opens with that story, names the six invisible moves inside it, and spends the book teaching the rest: the Wharton negotiation course he ran for two decades, built on the claim that people are not rational — so goals,…

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