Antifragile

Some things break under stress, and some things merely survive it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is interested in a third kind: things that get stronger from shocks, disorder, and uncertainty. He calls them "antifragile." Following The Black Swan, which laid out the problem of unpredictable events, Antifragile offers a way to live with them. Taleb argues that people, businesses, and societies should be built not just to withstand chaos but to benefit from it, and shows how to take advantage of disorder instead of fearing it.

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Vinod Khosla
Tom Bilyeu
Shane Parrish: “6. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder This book changed how I see the world. As if that wasn’t enough, it also introduced me to iatrogenics, fragilistas, and connected inversion and via negativa (something I should have connected much sooner).”
James Altucher
Changpeng Zhao
Ryan Holiday
Naval Ravikant: “He is also famous for The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Fooled by Randomness, all of which are worth reading.”