{"id":2852,"date":"2011-01-24T15:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/4d6d5274a127d9e2"},"modified":"2011-01-24T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:20:43","slug":"3quarksdaily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/3quarksdaily\/","title":{"rendered":"3quarksdaily"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you love a great book review? HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c562c53ef0148c7f04053970c-popup\" style=\"float:right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BedOfProcrustes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c562c53ef0148c7f04053970c-800wi\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 5px 5px\" title=\"BedOfProcrustes\" border=\"0\"><\/a> It\u2019s been roughly 20 years since I\u2019ve purchased a book with the intention of gaining insight into life lived wisely. Like nearly everyone else, nearly all of the time, I have read for other reasons: as an engaging diversion, to reinforce things I already believed, to further my knowledge relevant to my career, to get some concrete piece of practical information, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>And so it was when I bought Nassim Nicolas Taleb\u2019s latest book, Bed of Procrustes. Since it is a book of aphorisms from the iconoclastic ex-financier, I expected to grab some zingers on the misuse of statistics and economic theory. What I found, to my embarrassment, was a man focused on the problem of wisdom. Not \u201cwisdom\u201d with respect to predicting the future in financial contexts, but wisdom in something close to the classic sense of a well-lived life&#8211;a contemporary version of the Aristotelian megalopsychos. And to be clear: I was embarrassed for myself, not for Taleb.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you love a great book review? HatTip to Dave Lull<br \/>\n It\u2019s been roughly 20 years since I\u2019ve purchased a book with the intention of gaining insight into life lived wisely. Like nearly everyone else, nearly all of the time, I ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}