Book Review – Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Academic, Irreverent but very Relevant Well, this one blew me away. Non fictions generally don’t do that to me. Since they state facts,  or at max hypothesis, they can at best be beautiful, such as Freakonomics, or inspirational, such as Seth Godin’s books. But this is in your face, intensely academic (but not in a [...]

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Book Review – Dork by Sidin Vadukut

How I got hold of the book Once in a while I used to be amused by the Office Humor column Cubiclenama at the business newspaper Mint. Then I stopped reading mint. Maybe a year later, a friend recommended following Sidin on twitter and reading his Cubiclenama. But that’s not how took up this book. [...]

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