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Before the discovery of Australia, Europeans were convinced all swans were white.
The sighting of a single black swan invalidated millennia of confirmatory evidence – illustrating the fragility of our knowledge and our vulnerability to the unexpected.
This is the powerful metaphor at the heart of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s groundbreaking 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.”
