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Nassim Taleb's Antifragile. First read it when it came out in 2012, and I was still unmarried and unemployed. Interesting to re-read it now that I'm married and
by visakanv 10y ago
Nassim Taleb's Antifragile. First read it when it came out in 2012, and I was still unmarried and unemployed. Interesting to re-read it now that I'm married and have been working for 4+ years.
- trapperkeeper79 10y agoI've read a few of Taleb's other books. He seems to have a few brilliant points with lots of supporting materials and rants. Can you summarize the new insights you got after being married/employed?
- visakanv 10y agoI wouldn't say there are any new insights per se; I'm maybe just more intimately acquainted with them. Ie when I first read it, most of the descriptions about things like how a paycheck influences your thinking/behavior were just intellectual ideas for me, but having had a mortgage + paycheck for 4 years I've come to personally witness how it's 'domesticated' me in a way, made me more fragile, however you want to describe it
- hoodwink 10y agoThe book I recently reread was Fooled by Randomness. Working in the finance industry, that book changed my life.
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- henrik_w 10y ago+1 for Antifragile. Very interesting ideas, even though his writing style is a bit overbearing (lots of rants and personal attacks). I found it interesting to think about how the ideas in the book apply and relate to software development: https://henrikwarne.com/2014/06/08/antifragility-and-software-development/ https://henrikwarne.com/2014/06/08/antifragility-and-softwar...