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• (Taleb, 2012) ⇒ Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.” Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Subject Headings: Antifragility; Fragile System

Notes

• Sections:
  • **The Triad, or, A Map of the World and Things Along the Three Properties**: This section likely sets the foundation for understanding the core concepts of fragility, robustness, and antifragility.
  • **The Antifragile: An Introduction**: Chapters in this section include discussions on the contrast between fragile and antifragile systems, using metaphors such as Damocles and Hydra, and the nature of overcompensation and overreaction.
  • **Modernity and the Denial of Antifragility**: Taleb explores how modern practices often neglect or suppress antifragility, covering topics like the contrast between the souk and the office building, the problem with naive intervention, and the limitations of prediction in a modern context.
  • **A Nonpredictive View of the World**: This section includes insights on embracing uncertainty and the benefits of a nonpredictive approach to dealing with the world, with chapters focusing on characters like Fat Tony and the fragilistas, and the philosophy of Seneca.
  • **Optionality, Technology, and the Intelligence of Antifragility**: Here, Taleb delves into how optionality and technological innovation contribute to antifragility, with discussions on the value of not knowing where you're going and the historical figure Thales as an example of leveraging optionality.
  • **The Nonlinear and the Nonlinear**: This section examines the importance of nonlinear responses and the distinction between aggregate risk and individual risk.
  • **Via Negativa**: Focuses on the concept of improvement through subtraction, discussing time and fragility, and the application of these ideas in medicine.
  • **The Ethics of Fragility and Antifragility**: The final section addresses the moral implications of fragility and antifragility, discussing the necessity of having "skin in the game" and tailoring ethics to profession.

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• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book) Retrieved:2024-4-5.
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), and The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), and is the fourth book in the five-volume philosophical treatise on uncertainty titled Incerto. Some of the ideas are expanded on in Taleb's fifth book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018).

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Book Overview

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.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2012 AntifragileThingsThatGainfromDi	Nassim Taleb			Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder						2012