Nassim Taleb's New Book The Bed Of ProcrustesNassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of the best-selling books The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, has a new book coming out on November 30th, 2010. The name of his new book is The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms. For fans of Taleb's work and ideas, this need to be a welcome addition to Taleb's existing body of work. Procrustes is truly a character from Greek mythology. Based on the myth, he owned an estate and would abduct men and women traveling through. He had a unique bed he kept for these travelers, too as the bed was of a positive length. He would force the travelers to fit into the bed, and he would do this by chopping down the legs of taller travelers and stretching out shorter travelers, all so they would fit the b
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