ANTIFRAGILE
From
Amazon:
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
Nassim
Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the
foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as
human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or
riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit
from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and
calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos
but need it in order to survive and flourish.
In The
Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events
underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands
uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that
things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the
resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the
antifragile gets better and better.
Furthermore,
the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse
events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for
you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do
government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak?
Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job?
How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by
trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal
finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the
street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient
wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear.
Antifragile
is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world.
Erudite,
witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and
only the antifragile, will make it.
Praise
for Antifragile
“Ambitious
and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining.”—The Economist
“A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives.”—Newsweek
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