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An excerpt from The Black Swan
Book Review by Porchlight
Visit our Excerpts Blog to read an excerpt from The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Here are a few of the media hits Taleb has received: Wired Magazine The Wall Street Journal Financial Times And here's what we've written about it on our site: My Review of Portfolio's Book Reviews The Black Swan - Few and Far Between From the book: 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 possibility.
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The Black Swan
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. ON THE PLUMAGE OF BIRDS Before the discovery of Australia, people in the old world were convinced that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely confirmed by empirical evidence. The sighting of the first black swan might have been an interesting surprise for a few ornithologists (and others extremely concerned with the coloring of birds), but that is not where the significance of the story lies.
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links for 2007-05-13
By Porchlight
Last Harvest >> BusinessWeek | "The Soul Of A New Suburb" "In Last Harvest, acclaimed architecture writer Witold Rybczynski paints a nuanced portrait of these men and others who built America, neighborhood by neighborhood. . .
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A Book of Decencies
By Porchlight
Over the past few months, Jack and Todd have been taking each of us out for lunch. It's a chance for them to ask, "How are things going? " As they work their way around the office, they're learning about the things that are working well in our environment and the things that could be improved.
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New Excerpt!
Book Review by Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts Blog. It's taken from the introduction to Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken. This movement, however, doesn't fit the standard model.
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Excerpt from Blessed Unrest
By Porchlight
This excerpt is taken from Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken. Blessed Unrest is about a worldwide movement to re-imagine and improve humanity's relationship with the environment and one another. Paul Hawken is an environmentalist and author who has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.
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links for 2007-05-10
By Porchlight
Chasing Cool>>The Wall Street Journal | In Hot Pursuit of the Next Big Trend As they conduct interviews with fashion-and-media players such as Tom Ford, Clive Davis and Ms.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Pushing Past the Dip: How to Become the Best in the World
By Seth Godin
The long, tough slog through mediocre-ville. To be the best, Seth Godin explains, you must concentrate your effort, push a little harder, commit a few more resources and leave mediocre to those willing to be average.
Categories: changethis
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What the Romans Didn't Know: Overcoming Personal Constraints to Achieve Higher Performance and Fulfillment
By Flip Flippen
Do you really think Tiger Woods logs practice hours just to maintain what comes easiest to him? Flip Flippen says forget about discovering your strengths, instead it's your weaknesses hold you back from achieving your personal best. Here, he provides a method to identifying your weaknesses and eliminating them.
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With Books Falling From the Sky: A Discourse on Literacy
By Porchlight
49% percent of the adult population of the United States reads below a sixth-grade level and has difficulty navigating such common demands as reading job applications, ATM screens, and outpatient care instructions. In this evocative manifesto, Roxanne Coady calls for change and suggests how you can improve the lives of others through promoting literacy in your community.
Categories: changethis