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...
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.
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Number of Pages: 426
ISBN: 1400067820
ISBN-13: 9781400067824
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Naval Ravikant is an Indian American entrepreneur and investo...He is also famous for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, and Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and Markets, all of which are worth reading.- Naval Ravikant on The Tim Ferriss Show
- May 2, 2016
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Relentless | @farnamstreet @syruspartnersRecommended in "40 Books that Improve your Ability to Make Decisions"Fragile systems break under stress, robust systems resist it, and antifragile systems benefit from it. That’s the premise of Taleb’s groundbreaking work, Antifragile. That we should not only prepare for risk, uncertainty and chaos, but invite it, is a revolutionary idea, but Taleb makes a strong case. Throughout the book, he explores the state of politics, urban planning, finances, economics and medicine to illustrate the necessity of building antifragile systems if we want to thrive in this world. -
Applied Complexity Science. Localism. Homesteading.Recommended in "Library" -
In Search of Antifragility. Into volatility, bitcoin, complex...Recommended in "5 Most Influential Books"- twitter.com
- Nov 13, 2017
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Changed the way I think about risks I'm (unknowingly) taking, and how knowing the reasons for things can actually hurt us
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