Antifragile : things that gain from disorder /
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile...
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New York :
Random House,
Ã2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The triad, or, a map of the world and things along the three properties
- The antifragile: an Introduction : Between Damocles and Hydra ; Overcompensation and overreaction everywhere ; The cat and the washing machine ; What kills me makes others stronger
- Modernity and the denial of antifragility : The souk and the office building ; Tell them I love (some) randomness ; Naive intervention ; Prediction as a child of modernity
- A nonpredictive view of the world : Fat Tony and the Fagilistas ; Seneca's upside and downside ; Never marry the rock star
- Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility : Thales' sweet grapes ; Lecturing birds on how to fly ; When two things are not the "same thing" ; History written by the losers ; A lesson in disorder ; Fat Tony debates Socrates
- The nonlinear and the nonlinear : On the difference between a large stone and a thousand pebbles ; The philosopher's stone and its inverse
- Via negativa : Time and fragility ; Medicine, convexity, and opacity ; To live long, but not too long
- The ethics of fragility and antifragility : Skin in the game: antifragility and optionality at the expense of others ; Fitting ethics to a profession.
