Things that gain from disorder kindle edition by taleb, nassim nicholas. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Its a book that has come up repeatedly as having a huge impact on peoples thinking and is one of both of our favorite books. A hedge fund advised by nassim nicholas taleb posted a.
This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including fooled by randomness 2001, the black swan 20072010, and the bed of procrustes 20102016 and is the fourth book in the fivevolume. As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, the stock market. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The central theme of the book is antifragility, which nassim defines as. Things that gain from disorder, nassim taleb explains the concept of antifragility.
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Explore the summary for antifragile by nassim nicholas taleb. Taleb argues that antifragility is essential for dealing with the subject of the book that made his name. Antifragile resembles a selfhelp book, though it is difficult to imagine any other selfhelp book as intemperate and cranky. Nassim nicholas taleb, the bestselling author of the black. I just merely scratched the surface with my three lessons here, but thought itd be most helpful to get the idea of what antifragile even means for a start. His focus is on how different systems handle disorder.
Antifragile has completely changed how people think about work and life, and the concepts from it can be used daily. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading antifragile. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world. A hedge fund advised by nassim nicholas taleb posted a 4,000% return. Antifragile, nassim nicholas talebs followup to his black swan, argues that topdown efforts to eliminate volatility in public and private lives end up making things more fragile. Antifragile, by nassim nicholas taleb the new york times. Taleb expects the other market players to believe that returns are distributed according to a gaussian bell curve while taleb keeps pointing out that these returns are distributed along fattailed mandelbrotian curves. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, talebs message is revolutionary. The other books in the series are fooled by randomness, the black swan, skin in the game, and the bed of procrustes. Nassim nicholas taleb divides the world and all thats in it people, things, institutions, ways of life into three categories.
Taleb is the author of the incerto, a five volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 of which the most known books are the black swan and antifragile. The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems and medicine, drawing on modern street wisdom and ancient sources. Antifragile is a standalone book in nassim nicholas talebs landmark incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. From the bestselling author of the black swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, nassim nicholas taleb, a book on how some systems. Neil soni, who came on for episode 7, rejoined me to do an indepth breakdown of the book antifragile by nassim nicholas taleb. Its not just a modern practical philosophy book, its a guide for smart investing, exercising, learning, working, and thinking.
Nassim taleb, in his exasperating but compelling book antifragile, praises things that gain from disorder people, policies and institutions designed to thrive on volatility, instead of shattering in the encounter with it oliver burkman, guardian more than just robust or flexible, it actively thrives on disruption julian baggini, guardian. Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a black swan world. The author, nassim nicholas taleb, is a statistician and investigates problems of randomness and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. From the bestselling author of the black swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, nassim nicholas taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. In the black swan taleb outlined a problem, and in antifragile he offers a definitive solution. Nassim nicholas taleb is a former trader, philosopher and student of probabilities. Nassim nicholas taleb spent two decades as a trader and risk taker before becoming a fulltime essayist and scholar focusing on practical, philosophical, and mathematical problems with chance, luck, and probability. From the bestselling author of the black swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, nassim nicholas taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder. Nassim taleb is a trader himself and many of the lessons from this book he learned by trading in highly volatile currency markets. Here are 3 lessons that will show you what it means to be antifragile. Bruce russell on informational rescaling of pca maps with application to genetics. Nassim nicholas taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge and has led three careers around this focus, as a businessmantrader, a philosophical essayist, and an academic researcher.
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