Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes Title in Armenian Նասիմ Նիքոլաս Թալեբ - Պրոկրուստյան մահիճը Author(s) Nassim Nicholas Taleb Language(s) Armenian Publisher(s) Antares Year 2021 Binding Hardcover ISBN 9789939766836 The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects—modifying humans to sa