TY - BOOK AU - Taleb,Nassim Nicholas TI - The bed of Procrustes: philosophical and practical aphorisms SN - 9781400069972 AV - PN 6271 T35.2020 PY - 2020///, CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Aphorisms and apothegms KW - Aforismos y apotegmas KW - Human behavior KW - Quotations, maxims, etc KW - Conducta (Psicología) KW - Citas, máximas, etc N1 - Ejemplar con sobrecubierta; Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and antifragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface ER -