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Fooled by Randomness

audiobook


This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill, the world of trading, this audiobook is a captivating insight into one of the least understood factors of all our lives. In an entertaining narrative style, the author succeeds in tackling three major intellectual issues: the problem of induction, the survivorship biases, and our genetic unfitness to the modern word. Taleb uses stories and anecdotes to illustrate our overestimation of causality and the heuristics that make us view the world as far more explainable than it actually is.

The audiobook is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: Yo


Narrator: Sean Pratt
Duration:

4.2

77 ratings

Patrik

2024-03-10

Nyttiga påminnelser om hur lätt det är att lura sig själv om att man har koll!

Tom

2023-03-06

Jag hade hoppats på en bok med mer substans - insiktsfull och engagerande. Tyvärr tycker jag att boken är alldeles för pratig. Hade den varit hälften så lång hade den varit dubbelt så bra. Jag ger boken 2/5 i betyg som helhet, även om den bitvis förtjänar ett mycket högre betyg.

Jörgen

2022-02-15

Mycket intressant om hur lätt man tänker fel.