Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A2ZIZYQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 450 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 rephrasing: "Antifr. James Euclid said 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, this book cann. "Start reading this book today." according to Salvatore McDonagh. 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, while for resta
Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave - and thrive - in a world we don't understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand and predict. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is everything that is both modern and complicated bound to fail? The audiobook spans innovation by trial and error, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder.In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. T