The Bed of Procrustes

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is a philosophy book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb written in the aphoristic style. It was first released on November 30, 2010 by Random House. An updated edition was released on October 26, 2016 that includes fifty percent more material than the 2010 edition. According to Taleb, the book "contrasts the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness." The title refers to Procrustes, a figure from Greek mythology who abducted travelers and stretched or chopped their bodies to fit the length of his bed.

The book is part of Taleb's five volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, titled the Incerto and covers Antifragile (2012), The Black Swan (2007–2010), Fooled by Randomness (2001),The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), and Skin in the Game (2018).

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External links

• Janet Maslin, Explaining the Modern World and Keeping It Short New York Times, November 16, 2010

1. Procrustes
2. Fooled by Randomness
3. Skin in the Game (book)
4. Antifragile (book)
5. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
6. Procrustes analysis
7. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8. Camil Petrescu
9. Aphorism
10. Orthogonal Procrustes problem
11. Procrustes transformation
12. Epilogism
13. List of mythological objects
14. Georges Schéhadé
15. 1933 in literature
16. Daniel Curley
17. Eight-hour day
18. Stretcher (disambiguation)
19. Roujet D. Marshall
20. Theseus