Sublime

antifragilidade tem um atributo singular de nos tornar aptos a lidar com o desconhecido, de fazer as coisas sem compreendê-las — e fazê-las bem.

Nassim Taleb says, “You can be risk loving and yet completely averse to ruin.” And indeed, you should. The idea is that you have to take risk to get ahead, but no risk that can wipe you out is ever worth taking. The odds are in your favor when playing Russian roulette.

Skin in the game helps to solve the Black Swan problem and other matters of uncertainty at the level of both the individual and the collective: what has survived has revealed its robustness to Black Swan events and removing skin in the game disrupts such selection mechanisms.

Nassim Taleb has great mental models.