As the title would suggest, what taleb has found is that most complex systems not only gain from small stressors, but they are designed to gain more. Taleb interacts with the economic masters of the universe as he jets from new. Antifragile is a book that is difficult to summarize. A reader could easily run out of adjectives to describe nassim nicholas taleb s new book antifragile. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability. Bio to use for conferences i ncluding pictures please no fluffy stuff. All systems can be categorized as one of these three.
Something that gets hurt by those black swans is fragile. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. Vol 1 of the technical incerto will be out in april. Nassim nicholas taleb, the bestselling author of the black. Taleb defines fragility as that which is adversely affected by volatility. Subscribe to my newsletter to get one email a week with new book notes, blog posts, and favorite articles. Now the irrelevant to the topic of the book part could be interesting, but is here and there, so i have to go through a bunch of other obvious or bullshit to get it. The author says that the increased complexity of our society also makes our society more fragile. So although the book has a table of contents, chapter summaries and map, a summary of the book is difficult to discern as the content. As in the first two books, in his opinion on the big scale, the world is shaped by black swans, totally unpredictable events.
Things that gain from disorder taleb reports on his findings. Fooled by randomness, the black swan, the bed of procrustes, antifragile. I also include new articles, book notes, and podcast episodes. Nassim nicholas taleb has little tolerance for, well, a lot of things. Things that gain from disorder is a book by nassim nicholas taleb published on. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto. Nassim taleb has posted a link to the technical appendix ii of his new upcoming book antifragile on his website. As taleb explains in his book, antifragility is fundamentally different from the concepts of resiliency i. It is a concept developed by professor nassim nicholas taleb in his book, antifragile, and in technical papers. Nassim taleb says that whats most likely to stick in the. The opposite of fragility is not robustness, because robustness only indicates the ability to withstand uncertainty. In this book, which is highly recommended for the volatile times we are experiencing in nearly all areas of our existence, taleb advocates making our lives both public and private antifragile. So taleb has taken it upon himself to name and explore this curious property and its implications. Antifragile, by nassim nicholas taleb the new york times.
This distinction hints at the subtle but resonant concept that taleb left explores in his new book, antifragile. Things that gain from disorder, the bestselling book by the statistician and former. Antifragile should be a mandatory read for all policy makers and investment bankers. Antifragility is a property of systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. If they come out confusing, its my fault read the book. The book provides you with new lenses to view the world. Learn how to control risk and be more resilient by becoming more antifragile. In other words, fragile things break when faced with adversity or change. The other books in the series are fooled by randomness, the black swan, skin in the game, and the bed of procrustes. Further, we are victims to a new disease, called in this book. An excellent book that has influenced my thinking more than almost any other, and continues to be a reference i go back to. This book builds on the black swan taleb puts forward evidence and definitions for fragility, robustness and antifragility, and explains where they apply in life, and why you want to strive for antifragility.
Nassim taleb will be in conversation with ed smith at union chapel, london n1 tomorrow at 7pm. Id forgotten how arrogant and selfimportant taleb is by the time i purchased this book. Also, please no documentary films, newspaper articles, book chapters, and interviews beyond book launches. Things that gain from disorder, the author nassim nicholas taleb describes something that probably every human who is y oung and old in every culture might have. Nassim taleb is a trader himself and many of the lessons from this book he learned by trading in highly volatile currency markets. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read incerto 4book bundle. In this video i will present my top 5 takeaways from antifragile.
Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Things that gain from disorder by nassim nicholas taleb date read. In antifragile, taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. In the same way, we want not just to survive uncertainty, but be strengthened by it. Things that gain from disorder, the traderphilosopherprofessors follow. Hidden asymmetries in daily life furthers the idea. For example, a set of wine glasses is fragile because any volatility will break them, but humankind is antifragile thanks to evolution and our ability to adapt to environmental changes. And as i said earlier, i generally disagree with the premise of the book. In his third popular book after fooled by randomness and black swan, taleb now introduces a new concept called antifragilty. Antifragile is one of the most thoughtprovoking books of recent times and brutally challenges conventional wisdom, our biases, and our view of the world.
And we must do this by rejecting the rampant fragilization of the economy. Antifragile by nassim taleb march 12, 2016 march 12, 2016 kirtika 4 comments antifragile a term used to mean the opposite of fragile, and denote things that gain from disorder, chaos, stressors. Things that gain from disorder by nassim nicholas taleb. Here are the personal journal entries i used to record the best lessons from each book.
Fooled by randomness, the black swan, the bed of procrustes, antifragile by nassim nicholas taleb at indigo. I just started listening to nassim nicholas talebs antifragile and i wanted to share some quick thoughts from the opening chapters. But, as his latest book demonstrates, he holds a particular grievance against the mediocre, the safe middle ground, and most. This is an animated book summary of antifragile by assim nicholas. Nassim nicholas taleb, who formerly explored unpredictability in refreshingly unpredictable fashion in the black swan, demolishes or at least fruitfully unpacks that stale rubric in just one of the myriad pithy, ideationally rich, hand grenadestyle mini chapters that constitute his new book, which is a bathyscaphedeep descent into an. The triad fragile, robust, antifragile this is talebs central concept in both antifragile and the black swan. Things that gain from disorder incerto antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty. It suggests that this quality has been vital for the progress of human civilization since ancient times. Nassim taleb, in his exasperating but compelling book antifragile, praises things that gain from disorder people, policies and institutions designed to thrive on volatility, instead of shattering in the encounter with it oliver burkman, guardian more than just robust or flexible, it actively thrives on disruption julian baggini, guardian. In the other two books, interesting thoughts and data made the arrogance tolerable.
Twice in nassim nicholas talebs new book, he refers to hillary clinton as hillary monsantomalmaison, which doesnt quite have the punch of crooked hillary but equals it in contempt. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading antifragile. In this book, written by nassim taleb author of black swan, we are introduced to antifragility, a concept where some systems are strengthened by volatility instead of weakened by it. Nassim nicholas taleb takes a critical look at modern society and its aim to smooth out life by interfering in systems like the economy. Things that gain from disorder kindle edition by taleb, nassim nicholas. While comfort, convenience, and predictability, breed the oppositefragility. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas taleb s landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. Antifragile systems are those which he advocates we move towards. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Fooled by randomness, the black swan, the bed of procrustes, antifragile ebook written by nassim nicholas taleb. Not readily reducible to a definition taleb takes the whole book to develop the idea, suffice to say here that antifragile s oppositeseconomic, political, or medical systems that are vulnerable to sudden collapsetend to be managed by highly educated people who think they know how systems work.