The bed of Procrustes
Subtitle: philosophical and practical aphorisms
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Edition: trade paperback edition, revised and updated
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780812982404
Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms; Human behavior; Quotations, maxims
Notes: "Revised and updated'--Cover.

"Now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Preludes; title: Counter narratives; title: Matters ontological; title: The sacred and the profane; title: Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism; title: Charming and less charming sucker problems; title: Theseus, or, Living the Paleo life; title: The republic of letters; title: The universal and the particular; title: Fooled by randomness; title: Aesthetics; title: Ethics; title: Robustness and antifragility; title: The ludic fallacy and domain dependence; title: Epistemology and subtractive knowledge; title: The scandal of prediction; title: Being a philosopher and managing to remain one; title: Economic life and other very vulgar subjects; title: The sage, the weak, and the magnificent; title: The implicit and the explicit; title: On the varieties of love and nonlove; title: The end.