A couple of years ago, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote an influential book called The Black Swan– The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Last fall I reviewed the book for Living Aboard magazine.
It’s a complex book, but it deals primarily with the fact that the future will always be stranger than we can guess, in [...]
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Why Slider is a Black Swan
Starting Out Shaky
Probably all amateur boat designers experience a certain degree of doubt when they launch a boat of their own design for the first time. I sure did.
For most of the time I spent building Slider, I was pretty sure Slider would turn out to be an okay boat. I believe that catamarans are [...]
