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Title	:	Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto #4)
Author	:	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 426 pages
Published	:	November 27th 2012 by Random House
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Business. Economics. Psychology. Science

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto #4) Hardcover | Pages: 426 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder.

In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what he calls the "antifragile" is one step beyond robust, as it benefits from adversity, uncertainty and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension.

Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, and proposing that things be built in an antifragile manner. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave-and thrive-in a world we don't understand and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand. He who is not antifragile will perish. Why is the city state better than the nation state, why is debt bad for you, and why is almost everything modern bound to fail? The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. Throughout, the voice and recipes of the ancient wisdom from Phoenician, Roman, Greek, and Medieval sources are heard loud and clear.

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Original Title:	Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
ISBN:	1400067820 (ISBN13: 9781400067824)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Incerto #4

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Taleb seems constitutionally angry, dismissive, and contrarian--sometimes to the point of being an asshole. However, one cannot deny his talent of conveying crucially important concepts in a clear and entertaining fashion. I would rather have every one of my biases and heuristics kicked around so I will reconsider where they came from--and whether to keep them--than be coddled and comforted.Perhaps the best heuristic reminders I received from this book: 1/ Invest (trust) in people, not plans. 2/

Don't waste you time. This book is a bunch of nonsense!

The idea about evolutionary processes in life is old as ... the theory of evolution itself. Science, technology, economics, etc. are the part of evolution and follow the same evolutionary laws. So, page after page of angry "tea partish" rant against education, science, etc is just tiresome.

I really tried to finish this e-book (I might not have picked it if I had realized it was so long and would be so hard to stomach). I hate to give an opinion on any book until I've finished and given it every possible chance of redeeming itself. I struggled through more than a third of the 500+ pages before calling it quits. It is just not worth wasting the time. The author has such a pompous view of himself that the first quarter of the book left me positively nauseated. I tried to put personal

The author somehow is able to pull off sounding like an arrogant prick and simultaneously like an insecure whiner. The rare examples when the author wrote something that was true or significant do not offset the hundred of pages of unsubstantiated assertions and purely fabricated nonsense.

What a frustrating book.10% of it was brilliant and original ideas - I was very glad to learn about antifragility and optionality as it relates to life and business.Unfortunately, the other 90% of it was spent whining (I can't describe it any other way) and moralizing, of the most weaksauce variety. Ugh.Still worth reading, if you're patient, or if you can skim heavily through his "modern society sucks, the Romans were awesome!" diatribes.

I'm predisposed to like new ideas, unexpected outcomes, and even a bit of irreverence. But after just 13 pages of Taleb's narcissistic, contrarian-for-contrarianism's-sake drivel, I decided I had better things to do with my life.