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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)
Saved by Chad Aaron Hall and
Fragility can be measured;
Explains how we missed the word “antifragility” in classrooms. Fragile-Robust-Antifragile as Damocles-Phoenix-Hydra. Domain dependence.
Obsessive love is the most antifragile thing outside of economics.
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And antifragility determines the boundary between what is living and organic
It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it. Fragility can be measured;
If about everything top-down fragilizes and blocks antifragility and growth, everything bottom-up thrives under the right amount of stress and disorder. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.
complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind. This summarizes this author’s nonmeek attitude to randomness and uncertainty.