On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:24 AM, zooko <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just finishing up Nicholas Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan". It > is overflowing with awkwardness, gaffes, and ridiculosities, but the > unconventional tone is delightful (to me), and the core ideas are so > essential that I strongly recommend to all p2p hackers that they read > the whole thing and contemplate its profundities despite its flaws.
I found The Black Swan to pretty deeply flawed. I'd recommend Mandelbrot's "The Misbehavior of Markets" over it, at least the first half. If anyone in SF wants my copy of The Black Swan, just drop me an email. AGL -- Adam Langley [email protected] http://www.imperialviolet.org _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
