The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The message that Taleb is driving home, is clear and understood: Gaussian bell curves need to be deleted from public memory - Black Swan events, that are highly improbable, yet enormously impactful don't follow projections using standard deviations. While this in itself is definitely news to me, the book is windy, lengthy, and sometimes “hautain” (haughty, in reference to Taleb's beloved French). Glad I read it but I didn't always fully enjoy it.