
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

In most of their history, Genoa and Venice were competing for the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean like two hookers battling for a sidewalk.
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Paul Valéry once wrote: que de choses il faut ignorer pour agir—how many things one should disregard in order to act.
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
The rational flâneur is someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision at every step to revise his schedule, so he can imbibe things based on new information,
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
“What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent” is perhaps the most potent sentence in all of Nietzsche’s century—and
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
fragile is what is hurt a lot more by extreme events than by a succession of intermediate ones.
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Fragility implies more to lose than to gain, equals more downside than upside, equals (unfavorable) asymmetry and Antifragility implies more to gain than to lose, equals more upside than downside, equals (favorable) asymmetry
Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Whenever an economic crisis occurs, greed is pointed to as the cause, which leaves us with the impression that if we could go to the root of greed and extract it from life, crises would be eliminated. Further, we tend to believe that greed is new, since these wild economic crises are new. This is an epiphenomenon: greed is much older than systemic
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Nietzsche’s famous expression “what does not kill me makes me stronger” can be easily misinterpreted as meaning Mithridatization or hormesis. It may be one of these two phenomena, very possible, but it could as well mean “what did not kill me did not make me stronger, but spared me because I am stronger than others; but it killed others and the ave
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