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Black Swan Hunting is about the forces people miss until it is too late: incentives, human nature, technology, status, fragility, competence, and civilizational decay. It mixes essays with reported analysis to ask what makes societies prosperous, what makes them brittle, and what trends will shape them going forward.

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