Transmission #38

When we face such a challenge, we can take one of two approaches: we can grow into a more complex perspective that offers a solution to our problem, or we can try to ignore the problem, sometimes clinging more strongly to our existing worldview (or even shifting back to the reassuring simplicity of an earlier worldview). Take the shift from Conform

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Negative capability may be considered not only an individual trait. Groups of people, cultures, and societies may also cultivate and possess this quality. Usually, we need a problem, an acute danger such as a pandemic, to force us to outside of the box.

If the world could slow down and reflect, exercising greater ensemble negative capability, perhap... See more

We might assume that the opposite of a fragile system is a robust one; an organization that is designed to withstand any single threat. But Taleb disagrees and says that the best systems don’t merely resist threats, but actually grow stronger when challenged. He calls such systems anti-fragile. Consider muscles. When put under stress, our muscles d

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