The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By The Author Of The Modern Classic The Black Swan, This Collection Of Aphorisms And Meditations Expresses Taleb's View Of Modern Civilization's Hubristic Side Effects--modifying Humans To Satisfy Technology, Blaming Reality For Not Fitting Economic Models, Inventing Diseases To Sell Drugs, Defining Intelligence As What Can Be Tested In A Classroom, And Convincing People That Employment Is Not Slavery. Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter Narratives -- Matters Ontological -- The Sacred And The Profane -- Chance, Success, Happiness, And Stoicism -- Charming And Less Charming Sucker Problems -- Theseus, Or, Living The Paleo Life -- The Republic Of Letters -- The Universal And The Particular -- Fooled By Randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness And Fragility -- The Ludic Fallacy And Domain Dependence -- Epistemology And Subtractive Knowledge -- The Scandal Of Prediction -- Being A Philosopher And Managing To Remain One -- Economic Life And Other Very Vulgar Subjects -- The Sage, The Weak, And The Magnificent -- The Implicit And The Explicit -- On The Varieties Of Love And Nonlove -- The End -- Postface. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.