The speaker regards Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan as a favorite book that substantially changed their worldview.

“I gotta ask, after all the reading, any book, book recommendations- Yes... blogs, long articles? My favorite one still is probably The Black Swan by- Nassim Taleb... uh, Nassim Taleb.”

“Um, that was like one of those like, I was like ki- to me at least, it was like a bit of a, like a life-changing philosophical book where I was like, that's a completely different way to look at the world.”