普罗克拉斯提斯之床
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 初版 2010 年
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为什么值得读
- 篇幅短小，适合作为作者思想的概括
- 能促使人反思借口、审视自我认知
由现代经典著作The Black Swan的作者打造，这部格言与沉思集展现了Taleb对现代文明傲慢弊端的深刻洞察——改造人类去迎合技术、现实不符合经济学模型时反倒责怪现实、发明疾病以推销药物、将智慧狭隘地定义为课堂测验所能衡量的指标，以及诱导人们相信受雇工作并非奴役。
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……文字圣徒传（用文字描绘圣人？），而且我很惭愧地说，直到两三周前我甚至都不知道那个人是谁：纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布。[0-3]：《反脆弱》、《黑天鹅》、《随机漫步的傻瓜》、《普罗克鲁斯提斯之床》
…motohagiography (word-depipction-of-saints?), and until 2-3 weeks ago I am ashamed to say I didn't even know who that was: Nassim Nicholas Taleb. [0-3]: Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness, The Bed of Procrustes
……想怎样就怎样吧。编辑：再想想，还是算了吧。这大概既帮不了我克服自我合理化的毛病，也无法让我离目标更近一步。但我有个建议：去读读纳西姆·塔勒布的《普罗克鲁斯提斯之床》。
…feel like it Edit: on second thought, don't. It probably won't help me overcome any of my personal rationalizations or bring me any closer to my goals. But I have a recommendation. Read Nassim Taleb's Bed of Procrustes.
……翻译/编辑）- 尼尔·斯蒂芬森的《巴洛克三部曲》（《水银》、《混乱》、《世界系统》） - 格兰特·莫里森的《隐形人》（The Invisibles） - 纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布的《不确定性三部曲/四部曲》（Incerto，包含《随机漫步的傻瓜》、《黑天鹅》、《反脆弱》、《普罗克鲁斯提斯之床》） - 罗伯特·布莱的《铁约翰》 - 约瑟夫·海勒的《二十二条军规》 - 理查德·费曼的《物理定律的本性》 - 豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯的《虚构集》 - 《百年孤独》……
…translation/editing) - The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) by Neal Stephenson - The Invisibles by Grant Morrison - Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, The Bed of Procrustes) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Iron John by Robert Bly - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman - Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges - 100 Years of Solitude…
《历史的教训》、《给青年诗人的信》、《白手起家的商人给儿子的信》、《沉思录》选段、塞涅卡选段、《普罗克儒斯特之床》
Lessons of History Letters to a Young Poet Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son Sections of Meditations Sections of Seneca Bed of Procrustes
《普罗克鲁斯提斯之床》也很棒，在你把塔勒布其他几本书各自读过几遍之后，把它当成总结拿来重读非常轻松。塔勒布还为奇波拉的《基本法则》（The Basic Laws of…）最新版写了序言……
The Bed of Procrustes is great too, and easy to reread as a summary of the other books once you've already read them a few times individually. Taleb also wrote a forward to the recent edition of Cipolla's The Basic Laws of…
> 他曾经打算在自己还活着的时候，出版一本自己引用自己的格言集。他还真出了，书名叫《普罗克鲁斯提斯之床》。我读得挺过瘾，里面有不少精妙的思想，尽管这些巧思散落在他对自己敌人无数次冷嘲热讽的夹缝之间。
> At one point he was planning to publish a book of his own aphorisms, as quoted by himself, while he is still alive. He did, it's called "The Bed of Procrustes". I quite enjoyed it, there's quite a few brilliant thoughts there, even though they're sprinkled between countless cheap shots against his enemies.