Antifragile: Things That Gain from DisorderRandom House Publishing Group, 27 de nov. de 2012 - 544 páginas 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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... modern ailments seem to be associated with a lack of randomness in feeding and the absence of the stressor of occasional starvation ) , your psyche . There are even financial contracts that are antifragile : they are explicitly designed ...
... modern ailments seem to be associated with a lack of randomness in feeding and the absence of the stressor of occasional starvation ) , your psyche . There are even financial contracts that are antifragile : they are explicitly designed ...
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... modern , structured , world has been harming us with top - down policies and contraptions ( dubbed " Soviet - Harvard delusions " in the book ) which do precisely this : an insult to the antifragility of systems . This is the tragedy of ...
... modern , structured , world has been harming us with top - down policies and contraptions ( dubbed " Soviet - Harvard delusions " in the book ) which do precisely this : an insult to the antifragility of systems . This is the tragedy of ...
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... modern institutions and political affairs . While in the past people of rank or status were those and only those who took risks , who had the downside for their actions , and heroes were those who did so for the sake of others , today ...
... modern institutions and political affairs . While in the past people of rank or status were those and only those who took risks , who had the downside for their actions , and heroes were those who did so for the sake of others , today ...
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... modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge , but , paradoxically , it is making things a lot more unpredictable . Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial , the move away from ancestral and ...
... modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge , but , paradoxically , it is making things a lot more unpredictable . Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial , the move away from ancestral and ...
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... modern building is more fragile than the Cathedral of Chartres should an earthquake happen . And - centrally - you can even make the prediction of which one will last longer . Instead of a discussion of risk ( which is both predictive ...
... modern building is more fragile than the Cathedral of Chartres should an earthquake happen . And - centrally - you can even make the prediction of which one will last longer . Instead of a discussion of risk ( which is both predictive ...
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Overcompensation and Overreaction Everywhere | 41 |
The Cat and the Washing Machine | 54 |
What Kills Me Makes Others Stronger | 65 |
MODERNITY AND THE DENIAL OF ANTIFRAGILITY | 81 |
Tell Them I Love Some Randomness | 100 |
VIA NEGATIVA | 301 |
Time and Fragility | 309 |
Medicine Convexity and Opacity | 336 |
To Live Long but Not Too Long | 357 |
THE ETHICS OF FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY | 373 |
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Fitting Ethics to a Profession | 407 |
Conclusion | 421 |
Naive Intervention | 110 |
Prediction as a Child of Modernity | 134 |
A NONPREDICTIVE VIEW OF THE WORLD | 141 |
Senecas Upside and Downside | 151 |
Never Marry the Rock Star | 159 |
OPTIONALITY TECHNOLOGY AND | 169 |
Lecturing Birds on How to Fly | 187 |
When Two Things Are Not the Same Thing | 202 |
History Written by the Losers | 217 |
A Lesson in Disorder | 241 |
Fat Tony Debates Socrates | 249 |
THE NONLINEAR AND THE NONLINEAR | 263 |
The Philosophers Stone and Its Inverse | 290 |
Glossary | 427 |
Appendix I | 435 |
འབལ ིའ ིབབགངཋ | 442 |
Appendix II | 447 |
38 | 454 |
Additional Notes Afterthoughts and Further Reading | 457 |
Bibliography | 481 |
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44 | 497 |
Acknowledgments | 505 |
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106 | 519 |
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