Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Recommended readings..

Recommended readings:

Paleo style
The new evolution diet by Art De Vany
Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson

Philosophy :

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Fooled by randomness & The Black Swan & The bed of Procrusteus by Nassim N Taleb
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Psychology
Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Pehlan
Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Gut Feelings by Gerd G.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Introduction

How to start a beginning, which no one seen in past ....should i wake them up ? or make them realize, how on earth they got blindfolded by randomness ? Probably i should cover both.

In the next few posts, you would be soon sense....how humans got fooled by randomness, Black Swan is not jus an oscar movie (its far serious as a concept)..and many more.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Read @ ur Leisure-II

2.1 How can decision making be improved (on basis of System 1 and System 2 Thinking)....cited in Harvard Business School site..(Click here)

2.2 An interesting quiz.....(click here)

Happy reading !

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Read @ your Leisure-I (The Black Swan articles)

NNT's interview with McKinsey :

Mandelbrot's explanation to Wall Street:


Danny's Paper appeared in 1979:


P.S-u need to register in McKinsey to access the NNT's article...u can access thru free account.....bye.... happy reading !

Monday, March 9, 2009

Recommended reading on uncertainity...

1. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2. Fooled by randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3. The Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
4. (Mis)behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot
5. Chaos by James Gleick
6. Gut Feeelings by Gerd G.

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