Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. Taleb describes this as ‘antifragile’, and explains how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events.
Written by Matthew Syed, the book is about how the single greatest obstacle to progress is failing to learn from ones mistakes. The book provides interesting examples into how often in practice this s
The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how hedge fund manager John Paulson realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for
Written by two professors at INSEAD, Blue Ocean Strategy describes the market universe as being split by ‘blue oceans’ and ‘red oceans’. Red oceans are all the industries in existence today – the know