Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes

The Antifragile mindset is a unique one. Whenever possible, try to create scenarios where randomness and uncertainty are your friends, not your enemies.

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.

Society-wide, we should: Like the Maya, invest our surplus in public works, which make us antifragile. Prototype, prototype, prototype. Move to a precautionary mindset, such that we can learn to regulate our industries effectively, minimizing any negative externalities that they create. Consider Chesterton’s fence in all of its guises—from health c