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Antifragile: "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, an
by keanzu 7y ago
Antifragile: "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. According to Taleb, the opposite of fragile is antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile
- toohotatopic 7y agoDo those things become stronger or do they just remain while everything else collapses? How much is this about being the real deal? In crisis, bullshit doesn't work anymore.
- ptah 7y agofrom reading his book on the topic, my understanding is that they become strionger. he would classify "just remaining" as robust as opposed to antifragile