September 2025
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Fooled by Randomness Summary – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled by Randomness” is an exploration of how humans chronically misinterpret luck as skill, patterns as laws, and anecdotes as evidence. Writing from the vantage point of a mathematical trader and probabilistic philosopher, Taleb argues that much of what we take to be causation is in fact the noisy outcome of probabilistic…
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Summary – Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark work of political economy and social critique that introduces a powerful framework to understand how major tech firms have forged a new, unregulated form of capitalism. Zuboff argues that we are living through a historical turning point, where a handful of technology corporations most notably…
