Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
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Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them—and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks t
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)
Antifragility is desirable in general, but not always, as there are cases in which antifragility will be costly, extremely so. Further, it is hard to consider robustness as always desirable—to quote Nietzsche, one can die from being immortal.
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As Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains in Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder,4 we use the word fragile to describe people, things, and organizations that are weakened when harmed, and the words robust and resilient for things that are able to withstand harm without weakening, but we don’t have a word for things that get stronger when harmed (up
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anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)
The term “antifragility” comes from Nicholas Taleb. He coined it back in 2014.
In this book, he writes: “I want to be able to live happily in a world I don't understand.”
He calls for an affirmation of chance and chaos as the actual drivers of change. They lead to antifragility constantly evolving and improving. This is precisely where the subtle di
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