Bed of Procrustes

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2011 112 pages eng ★ 4.3 (6 ratings)

By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining…