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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Item Number
- 110
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- 30 USD
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- 10 USD to jk0512jk
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Item Description
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from The Voracious Reader in Larchmont, NY
In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile
manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear.
Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb’s message is revolutionary The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.
http://www.thevoraciousreader.com
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