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joshux on Dec 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?

+1 for Taleb's books. His Black Swan book actually inspired me to pursue a startup. However, his ideas are not actually that original (which is not a bad thing). One might get similar level of knowledge(albeit takes more time) from reading stoic philosophy, Popper's philosophy of science, tacit knowledge (Michael Polanyi) and complex system sciences.

vkb on Dec 9, 2014 | [–]

One might, but how many books to read is that? Taleb compresses these ideas very concisely and in a relatively easy-to-read manner.

LiweiZ on Dec 9, 2014 | [–]

+1 for complex system sciences. I guess that's where most of today's lean/simple/ecosystem things come from.

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