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Pros
The human body is antifragile with the way it responds to stress and strain by adding muscle. Antifragility is something that not only survives stress but grows or becomes stronger as a result. To summarize and repeat, the future reader has 2 options.... Read More
Taleb says that stressors are evolutionary and that we should embrace them. The restaurant business is notoriously the culinary preferences of people are fickle and unpredictable, and restaurants who are behind the times frequently go under.
Something robust will be unbothered by chaos.
For years, this strategy produces a reliable and slowly growing income stream. Sluj has a solid but non-volatile stock that pays a reasonable dividend of, say, two cents per share every quarter.
Cons
The author has a lot of issues with other people. It bleeds through the text in every paragraph. And what is the point? It stank of a spurned lover. On page six the author makes disparaging remarks about bureaucrats.
Most of the 500+ pages is the author wasting time on useless data proofs and babbling. That is about it that was semi novel and respectable. The book suffers from poor writing and a real lack of coherent editing.
The genius concepts in the book is overshadowed by disorganized and subpar writing. The whole work is extremely repetitive as the ideas are presented in the prologue but are lost in a sea of bad examples. I was being had by pseudo creative edgy anti i... Read More
His topics are unorganized, ill-thought out, poorly researched, and lazily written. It's like hearing the wolf of wall street lecture you on a topic that he once read a magazine article about between * binges. He bemoans how middle class parents shoul... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Achieved by embracing diversity and decentralization and by building systems that are resilient to shocks and disruptions
The wine glass is robust to the weight and pressure of the wine
The book is basically a puzzle where an interesting picture is cut into pieces with bravado false equivalencies unproven genera... Read More
Antifragile is obviously a dense read but it isnt that dense or unpleasant like manson claimed it was
Price
He often comes across as an angry young man who would deny me the contemplative pleasure of a cigar while he jets around the wo... Read More
If the reader chooses to take the book at face value they would still benefit from it as it is thought provoking even as presented
Competitiveness
With very few exceptions the three categories are relative and taleb frequently reminds us of this
Basically taleb says that stressors are evolutionary and that we should embrace them
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The opposite of fragility which refers to systems that are harmed by volatility and uncertainty
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Not the same as robustness or resilience as these concepts refer to systems that can withstand stress without breaking
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I dislike the pretentious morons who see this book as some testament against them which makes them dislike the entire book though i will agree that this books gets to be a bit too wordy and self referential at times when it’s not all that necessary
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It’s not often hard to read it’s just that you have to google some weird word every once in a while and it really breaks the flow of the book sometimes
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I also hear the audiobook is quite bad which is why i bought the real book
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If you’re on the fence i’d get it even if you don’t feel super inclined finish it
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In my view we have to learn totrust yourself
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