“It is hard to find people knowledgeable and confident enough to like to extract the essence of things, instead of nitpicking.”

Nassim Taleb

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker.  He grew up in Lebanon and grew rich in the USA.  He is the author of among other books, The Black Swan.  He recently created the concept of the Antifragile and wrote a book about it.  He sees the world as it is and writes about it concisely.