There are interesting lessons in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Learn to look for trends, events and all the gems in life that seem hidden, out of place, under the table and around corners? At 400 pages its no quick read but Taleb has presented his research by sharing stories and […]
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Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Nassim is a mathematical statistician, and risk analyst. Today he is a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is a co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Risk and Decision Analysis since September 2014. Nassim has also been a […]
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Wharton’s Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner is another great read addressing analytics, human behavior and analytic technologies for establishing and sharpening forecasting abilities for any organization. The book title is a wonderful attention grabber. We certainly live in the era of big data. Today business is driving the new […]
I found Albert-Laszlo Barabasi‘s Book Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means a wonderful read (review here) in March of 2008. It was a wonderful read about the science of networks….both computing and non-computing networks. Laszlo Barabasi will be releasing a new book Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We […]
In the mid 1980s CBS Television and The Library of Congress produced a series of 30-second Public Service Announcements (PSA) called Read More About It. Placed at the end of selected television broadcasts, the PSAs served to inspire viewers to read a series of critiqued books from their local library. Today’s students including some of […]