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

Nassim Taleb suggests targeting the two extremes of the career spectrum at once. On one end of the barbell, you play it safe with a secure, staid job. On the other end, you take highly speculative risks. In the middle, as little as possible.

On the other hand, if you have several options and you lose your primary job, it might just happen that you end up dedicating more time to your secondary job, and maybe even make more money at it. You would have beaten that stroke of bad luck and would be, in that case, antifragile. One hundred percent

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.