If you want to get an idea of what the book is all about, Taleb has posted several chapters and excerpts on Medium. Here’s one of them, on “The Logic of Risk Taking”:
Yes, I kinda gotten carried away by the hype. While NNT has just a couple of interesting points, what I relly like are the anecdotes of his interesting life or from his non-iconoclastic knowledge map.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf410...