by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Antifragile in 4 ideas you’ll actually remember.

Nassim Taleb’s core claim is that we’ve been missing a category. The opposite of fragile isn’t ‘robust’ — which merely resists shocks — it’s antifragile: things that gain from disorder, volatility and stress. The ideas below are his toolkit for an uncertain world: subtract harm, keep your options open, and let the right kind of stress make you stronger instead of breaking you.

The 4 key ideas from Antifragile

Some things gain from disorder — that’s antifragileAntifragile→ The Lindy effect: the longer something has lasted, the longer it will lastThe Lindy effect→ Via negativa: improve by removing, not addingVia negativa→ Optionality: keep choices open when the future is uncertainOptionality→

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