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If you like anti-fragile, I really recommend Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan. The Black Swan is a good example of a book with a good original idea that gets repeated so often its almost conventional wisdom, except that half the people saying it are misusing the term because they didn’t read the book.





I've read both of them and also the Bed of Procrustes. Though they're useful, I just feel the others are very classic "paper non-usefully expanded to book form" business titles whereas Antifragile's topic is benefited by the full treatise treatment.

> except that half the people saying it are misusing the term because they didn’t read the book

Oh, man, make that 95% and you would be describing The Innovator Dilemma.

What is up with people that take those ideas they never bothered to read and insist they know them?


Black Swan is one of those books that has definitely stuck with me even though it's been ~15 years since I read it.

But I would consider it philosophy, not a "business book".




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