books
Taleb’s Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game) A wide array of fallacies that govern our daily life; unknown unknowns, “experts” explaining past events as obvious in retrospect, the news, predictions, survivorship bias, confirmation bias, etcetera Fictiones Ficciones (Fictions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones) A classic from Jorge Luis Borges; “experimental” literature. Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky A Soviet sf classic, a story about a closed zone where ‘aliens’ left artifacts and how that changed people around them...