Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 1 highlight
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I have curated the most important and deep parts of this book into the following quotes:- You don’t know yourself unless you have to make your own choices.- We don’t understand things when we have an edge. Only when we have the perspective of coming from behind.- If we win during bear markets you’ll be fine on bull markets.- Dispersion of outcomes ... See more
Tatiana Figueiredo • Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
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The latter category is antifragile—like a package that wants to be mishandled. Up to a point, certain things benefit from volatility, and that’s how we want to be. Why? Because the world is fundamentally unpredictable and volatile, and large events—panics, crashes, wars, bubbles, and so on—tend to have a disproportionate impact on outcomes.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
In every domain or area of application, we propose rules for moving from the fragile toward the antifragile, through reduction of fragility or harnessing antifragility. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Nassim Taleb in a book curiously titled Antifragile. Here is the core of the idea. We can think about three categories of objects: Ones that are harmed by volatility and unpredictability, ones that are neutral to volatility and unpredictability, and finally, ones that benefit from it.