By the author of the modern classis The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas with techniques you least expect.

The Bed of Procrustes took its title from Greek mythology: the story of a guy who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s watch of contemporary civilization’s hubristic part effects-modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not appropriate economic versions, inventing diseases to market drugs, defining intelligence as what could be tested within a class, and convincing people that employment isn’t slavery.

Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been coping with but never acknowledged.

Having a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.