Nassim Taleb calls this fragility vs. "antifragility". A system with frequent small shocks, gets information from those shocks about what to keep buffers of.

Nassim Taleb calls this fragility vs. "antifragility". A system with frequent small shocks, gets information from those shocks about what to keep buffers of. A system without an absence of frequent, small shocks, keeps no reserves (like the bones of an astronaut in weightlessness too long becoming thinner, or the muscles of someone who does not work becoming smaller). Small shocks are information, and they tell a system what to bulk up on. Long periods of tranquility, leads to fragility. Which, for many reasons (climate change? war? pandemics? disruptive technologies?) is not a good preparation for the near future.