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Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb He puts into words concepts of life so close to us yet so foreign sounding that makes us rethink everything in our lives.
by tyurok 10y ago
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He puts into words concepts of life so close to us yet so foreign sounding that makes us rethink everything in our lives.
When you ask people "What is the opposite of fragile", they usually answer robust, which Taleb proves to be incorrect by introducing a new concept, the Antifragilty. It entangles so many things in economic, academic, science, finances and other systems with several tales from the past revisited with a new lens.
- skdotdan 10y agoWhich Taleb's book should I read first?
- drallison 10y agoFooled by Randomness,first; and The Black Swan (2nd edition) second. These are books about statistics and decision theory. They might not meet some people's expectations about "non-technology" which usually means no equations and no mathematical reasoning. While not written by Taleb, How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff makes a good introduction for Taleb's books.
- thomasthomas 10y agotaleb says himself in antifragile the answer is antifragile
- skdotdan 10y agoThank you.
- simonsarris 10y agoIMO start with antifragile.
- skdotdan 10y agoAlready bought it :)
- canes123456 10y agoNot the black swan, but anything else is a fine intro. Antifragile or Fooled by randomness but work
- skdotdan 10y agoThanks.
- mohanmcgeek 10y agoAccording to taleb himself, it shouldn't matter.
- skdotdan 10y agoOkay, thanks.
- osullivj 10y agoFooled by Randomness, IMHO. Black Swan is an expansion of Fooled. Aphorisms is a vanity project. Haven't read Anti Frangile. Fooled by Randomness has lots of good analysis of survivorship bias, trend following and other mistaken pattern matching strategies that are hard wired into us, and blind us to the true nature of events.
- RachelF 10y agoRead Fooled by Randomness. The other books are expansions on these ideas, and IMHO, not as good, mostly as Taleb seems to have become angry at his critics.
- fernandohur 10y agoHappy to see this one here :)