Antifragile things that gain from disorder
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withs...
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Table of Contents:
- Appendix : The triad, or a map of the world and things along the three properties
- Book I. The antifragile: an introduction : Between democies and Hydra : Half of life has no name ; Please behead me ; Proto-antifragility ; Domain independence is domain dependent
- Overcompensation and overreaction everywhere : How to win a horse race ; On the antifragility of riots, love, and other unexpected beneficiaries of stress
- The cat and the washing machine : Stressors are information ; Crimes against children
- What kills me makes other stronger : Antifragility by layers ; Thank you, errors ; Why the aggregate hates the individual ; What does not kill me kills others
- Book II. Modernity and the denial of antifragility : The souk and the office building : Two types of professions ; Bottom-up variations ; Away from Extremistan ; Twelve thousand years
- Tell them I love (some) randomness : Hungry donkeys ; That time bomb called stability ; What do we call here modernity
- Naive intervention ; Intervention and iatrogenics ; In praise of procrastination: the Fabian kind ; Neuroticism in industrial proportions ; The state can help, when incompetent ; Catalyst-as cause confusion
- Prediction as a child of modernity
- Book III. A nonpredictive view of the world : Fat Tony and the Fragilistas : Indolent fellow travelers ; On suckers and nonsuckers
- Seneca's upside and downside
- Never marry the rock star ; On the irreversibility of broken packages ; Seneca's barbell
- Book IV. Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility : Do you really know where you are going?
- Thales' sweet grapes : Option and asymmetry ; The Thalesian and the Aristotelian
- Lecturing birds on how to fly : The Soviet-Harvard department of ornithology ; Epiphenomena
- When two things are not the "same thing : The green lumber fallacy ; Conflation ; Prometheus and Epimetheus
- History written by the losers : The case in medicine ; The inverse turkey problem ; The charlatan, the academic, and the showman
- A lesson in disorder : The ecological and the Ludic ; An antifragile (barbell) education
- Fat Tony debates Socrates : Euthyphro ; Fat Tony versus Socrates ; Primacy of definitional knowledge ; The sucker-nonsucker distinction ; Conclusion to Book IV
- Book V. The nonlinear and the nonlinear : On the importance of attics
- On the difference between a large stone and a thousand pebbles : A simple rule to detect the fragile ; Traffic in New York ; Where more in different ; Small may be ugly, it is certainly less fragile ; Projects and prediction ; Where the "efficient" is not efficient
- The philosopher's stone and its inverse : how to detect who will go bust ; How to lose a grandmother ; Now the philosopher's stone ; Barbells, again
- Time and fragility : From Simonides to Jensen ; Learning to subtract ; To age in reverse: the Lindy effect ; A few mental biases ; Architecture and the irreversible neomania ; Turning science into journalism ; What should break ; Prophets and the present ; Empedocles' dog
- Medicine, convexity, and opacity : How to argue in an emergency room ; First principle of Iatrogenics (empiricism) ; Second principles of iatrogenics (nonlinearity in response) ; Burying the evidence ; Nature's opaque logic
- To live long, but not too long : life expectancy and convexity ; If it's Wednesday, I must be vegan
- Book VII. The ethics of fragility and antifrigility : Skin in the game: antifragility and optionality at the expense of others : Hammurabi ; The talker's free option ; The ancients and the Stiglitz syndrome ; Options, antifragility, and social fairness ; The antifragility and ethics of (large) corporations
- Fitting ethics to a profession : The professionals and the collective ; The ethical and the legal ; Big Data and the researcher's option ; The tyranny of the collective
- Conclusion
- Epilogue : Glossary
- Appendix I.A graphical tour of the book
- Appendix II. Where most economic models fragilize and blow people up.
