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Book cover for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto, #2)

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto, #2) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its ...more

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“how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

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“She picks up her black Mont Blanc pen, looks at it, puts it back where it was, then looks straight at me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Our Shared Shelf — 222926 members — last activity Oct 27, 2026 11:29AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

Tackling the Pulitzer Prize Winners! — 823 members — last activity Sep 12, 2026 09:42PM
The Pulitzer Prize literature winners comprise a phenomenal collection of novels. Join us as we tackle the monumental task of reading all of the winne ...more