The Enchanted Loom reviews Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book, Antifragile

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Teasing 10 threads from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s…

Thread 1:

Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to dis- order, volatility, stressors and randomness; they love risk, adventure and uncertainty. Let us call them antifragile.(pg. 3)

Thread 2:

We are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, anytime.

(pg. 4)

Thread 3: The fragilista defaults to thinking that what she does not see is not there, or what she does not understand does not exist. At the core, she tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

(pg. 9)

Thread 4:

Less is more, and usually more effective.

(pg. 11)

Thread 5:

If you are not a washing machine or a cuckoo clock – in other words, if you are alive – something deep in your soul likes a certain amount of randomness and disorder.(pg. 63)

Thread 6:

My moods, my sadness or my bouts of anxiety, are a second source of intelligence – perhaps even the first source.(pg. 61)

Thread 7:

The most interesting aspect of evolution: it only works because of its antifragility; it is in love with stressors, randomness, uncertainty and disorder.

(pg. 67)

Thread 8:

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence … fragile.

(pg. 154)

Thread 9:

You need to know if you do not like the pursuit of money and wealth because you genuinely do not like it, or you are rationalizing your ability to be success- ful at it.(pg. 174)

Thread 10:

Collaboration has explosive upside, what in mathematics is called a super-additive function, i.e. 1 + 1 equals more than 2, and 1+1+1 equals much, much more than three.(pg. 233)

1+1+1= Synergy

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://www.soulseeds.com/fb-inspiration/2013/05/seed-of-hopes-surprise/

Slide 12 - http://www.exacttarget.com/blog/how-to-create-1-1-3-marketing-campaigns/

Slide 2 - http://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-taleb-twitter-2014-1

Slide 6 - http://timothycd.com/when-less-is-more-the-art-of-minimal-design/

Slide 5 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/To-the-unknown-413215415

Slide 11 - http://haroldarnold.com/lyh67/

Slide 10 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Humpty-Dumpty-214789674

Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 9 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Stress-381859259

Slide 8 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/anxiety-314402192

Slide 7 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/random-6019051

Slide 4 - http://lundycupp.com/golfballs_pumpkins_files/Professor_Egghead.jpg

Mark Brady, [email protected]

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