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Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game
The antifragility of the whole often depends on the fragility of the parts. Why death is a necessity for life. The benefits of errors for the collective. Why we need risk takers. A few remarks about modernity missing the point. A salute to the entrepreneur and risk taker.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)
Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You[TheKnowledge Project Ep. #238]
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The Antifragile mindset is a unique one. Whenever possible, try to create scenarios where randomness and uncertainty are your friends, not your enemies.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Giocati dal caso: Il ruolo della fortuna nella finanza e nella vita (Saggi. Tascabili)
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decentralization is convex to variations.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007.
David Aldousstat.berkeley.eduIn fact, the deep message of this book is the danger of universalism taken two or three steps too far—conflating the micro and the macro. Likewise the crux of the idea of The Black Swan was Platonification, missing central but hidden elements of a thing in the process of transforming it into an abstract construct, then causing a blowup.