Fooled by Randomness

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Michael Saylor: He Asked AI To Build Something That Never Existed. Here’s What Happened! | Michael Saylor

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, 6 August 2026.

Michael Saylor says that after his formal education he studied statistics through all of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's writing, including this book, describing it as teaching him to distinguish meaningful data from misleading random data. He calls the experience 'profoundly valuable' and recommends that anyone who hasn't read all of those books ought to do so and obsess over applied statistics.

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Top Bitcoin Holder: Ask AI To Do THIS, Stop Trying To Out-Work The Robots! | Michael Saylor

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, 6 August 2026.

Michael Saylor groups Fooled by Randomness with Skin in the Game and The Black Swan as books he studied after leaving school, calling the experience of reading all of Taleb's work on statistics and randomness 'profoundly valuable' and saying anyone who hasn't read them 'probably ought to go read those books and obsess over applied statistics.'

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