Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

The author of the bestseller The Black Swan talks about his critically acclaimed new book identifying a category of “Antifragile” things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. LUNCHEON.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan: Second Edition, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bed of Procrustes)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.From the Hardcover edition. (added from Random House)… (more)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan: Second Edition, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bed of Procrustes)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.From the Hardcover edition. (added from Random House)… (more)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan: Second Edition, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bed of Procrustes)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.From the Hardcover edition. (added from Random House)… (more)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan: Second Edition, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bed of Procrustes)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.From the Hardcover edition. (added from Random House)… (more)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan: Second Edition, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bed of Procrustes)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.From the Hardcover edition. (added from Random House)… (more)

As provocative and counter-intuitive as his bestselling The Black Swan, Talib’s new book proposes that some things benefit from disorder. Just as bones, for example, thrive and strengthen when under stress, so the “Antifragile” facets of various mechanical, political, and economic systems will benefit from disorder. Talib’s vision advocates innovation by trial-and-error, and he shows how we can use shock and uncertainty as opportunities.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan: Second Edition, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bed of Procrustes)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone.From the Hardcover edition. (added from Random House)… (more)

In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicolas Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the “antifragile” is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. (lilithcat)… (more)