Antifragile
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Praise for Nicholas Nassim Taleb "[This] is the lesson of Taleb. and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable."--Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne."--The Wall Street Journal "The most prophetic voice of all. [Taleb is] a genuinely significant philosopher. someone who is able to change the way we view the structure of the world through the strength, originality and veracity of his ideas alone."--GQ "Changed my view of how the world work
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The follow-up to The Black Swan argues for a third category beyond fragile and resilient. Antifragile things, Taleb writes, get stronger from stress, volatility, and the disorder we keep trying to engineer away.
Yes. Antifragile is the third book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Incerto series, which also includes Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, and Skin in the Game. The books share themes of uncertainty, risk, and probability.
Antifragile is dense and combative, with frequent digressions, mathematical asides, and Taleb's signature confrontational tone. Many readers either embrace it or find it exhausting. The core ideas can be grasped from the early chapters.
Antifragile was written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, published in 2012 by כנרת.
Antifragile is 639 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Antifragile takes most readers 10 to 14 hours to finish.
Antifragile is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
