{"id":2546,"date":"2010-12-12T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2010-12-12T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T20:09:41","slug":"sunday-times-the-bed-of-procrustes-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/sunday-times-the-bed-of-procrustes-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Times The Bed of Procrustes Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link<\/a>.
\n And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know.
Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

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The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological hackles up: \u201cSocial networks present information about what people like; more informative if, instead, they described what they don\u2019t like.\u201d And so that\u2019s precisely what Taleb does: gyms, economists, carbohydrates, journalists \u2014 he loathes them all. \u201cI take a ritual bath after any contact, or correspondence (even emails), with consultants, economists, Harvard Business School professors, journalists, and those in similarly depraved pursuits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, and don\u2019t forget you: \u201cNewspaper readers exposed to real prose are like deaf persons at a Puccini opera.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s one thing that truly gets Taleb\u2019s goat in his arch if uneven meditations, it\u2019s jobs: \u201cThose who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.\u201d Which brilliantly proves how clever the maddeningly wise Taleb is: he\u2019s cured himself of that problem completely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link. And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know. Here’s an excerpt: The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,73],"tags":[242,365,1068,83,366,364,305],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pdf","tag-aphorisms","tag-book-review","tag-facebook","tag-nassim-nicholas-taleb","tag-robert-collins","tag-sunday-times","tag-the-bed-of-procustes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}