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In the wake of an atlantic oil spill, he wishes with all his heart that he could save one. Book cover design for the black swan by nassim nicholas taleb. A black swan is a surprising or virtually unpredictable event that can have a massive impact. Book summary a tattoo artist who seeks beauty in all things, paulian has had his fill of mans inhumanity to man, and to the world. Oct 05, 2011 fitting black swans into an expected value world black swan. In this brilliant book nassim nicholas taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of. There are so many people who go on about disliking ereaders, because you cant holdsmell the actual book.
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