Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400067820 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. 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 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. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomnes
Alfred LEUNG said As always, an imperfect, infuriating but intriguing book. 1 Summary----------1.1 Introduction==========Taleb conveniently quotes one of his friend's summary of this book: "Everything gains or loses from volatility. Fragility is what loses from volatility and uncertainty."I think the point is better expressed by rephrasi. A profound book A true gem that reflects the flaws of modern thinking, forcing the reader to view instead the ancient vision of wisdom that comes from via negativa, a method of reducing uncertainty by removing that which is fake, flawed or fluff.Breathtaking in its delivery, thi. Start reading this book today. Every so often I read a book that changes one of my strongly held opinions, and this is one of them.This book answers the question "Why do individual, central, and global banks inevitably collapse, losing all of their historical profits, literally overnight, whil
--Jason Kirk. But, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, there's an entire class of other things that don't simply resist stress but actually grow, strengthen, or otherwise gain from unforeseen and otherwise unwelcome stimuli. Best Books of the Month, December 2012: Fragile things break under stress. That said, Antifragile is far from flawless. The wealth of radical thinking in this book astounds; the glossary alone offered more thought-provoking ideas than any other nonfiction book I read this year. Taleb sees degrees of antifragility everywhere, from fasting, mythology, and urban planning to economic, technological, cultural, and biological systems. Some readers will find Taleb's brashness off-putting; others will embrace it as a charismatic component of the ideas themselv