Sublime

(or lack of knowledge) can be beneficial to our defective species. A slightly random schedule prevents us from optimizing and being exceedingly efficient, particularly in the wrong things.

Nassim Taleb calls a ‘non-scalable’ career. A plumber can only fix so many taps. A baker can only bake so many loaves. A lawyer can only represent so many clients. Artists—which includes anyone from writers to musicians to entrepreneurs—don’t face this bottleneck. Something idea-based can be sold over and over again with almost no extra time or eff

For many environments, the relevant data points are those in the extremes; these are rare by definition, and it suffices to focus on those few but big to get an idea of the story.

Nassim Taleb has great mental models.

Taleb describes this as “the logical-philosophical extension of the black swan problem”. Simply put, predicting events based on observed events is problematic. That is, one cannot expect with certainty that what happened in the past will happen in the future.

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