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3.81 AVERAGE
Great book! I’d give it a 5 star rating if it wouldn’t be about roasting and criticizing people who aren’t behaving like the author would like them to behave(they preach fragility).
It helped me to think about my life and work in terms of resilience and building anti-fragile things over the course of life.
Key takeaways:
* put your skin in the game - if you really want to prove something and be perceived as “legit” - you should risk your own resources (financial or other) when you want to achieve some goal.
* it really pays off to be hurt or lose sometime in order to improve the general overall system
* experiment a lot and take small risks
* reduce SPOFs (I had the feeling that this book has a lot in common with SRE:))
* avoid things that don’t work rather than focus on finding what does work
* we need stressors to evolve - they are not bad things!
It helped me to think about my life and work in terms of resilience and building anti-fragile things over the course of life.
Key takeaways:
* put your skin in the game - if you really want to prove something and be perceived as “legit” - you should risk your own resources (financial or other) when you want to achieve some goal.
* it really pays off to be hurt or lose sometime in order to improve the general overall system
* experiment a lot and take small risks
* reduce SPOFs (I had the feeling that this book has a lot in common with SRE:))
* avoid things that don’t work rather than focus on finding what does work
* we need stressors to evolve - they are not bad things!
informative
slow-paced
challenging
slow-paced
Wonderfully stimulating and entertaining. Taleb brings a unique perspective on the problems of randomness and our exposure to the unexpected. He also doesn't pull his punches. A great read.
Way too lenghty but still a strong recommendation to read and digest. I think I didnt understand it all but made me think many many times.
This is easily the most frustrating book I have ever read. One the one hand, Taleb provides a raw and authentic viewpoint regarding the challenges with forcasting and preparing for future events. On the other hand, he can be a real jackass. Granted, he acknowledges it in his book and is unapologetic about it (he didn't call himself a jackass but understands he can be off-putting). You have to respect that. There are several views Taleb holds that I disagree with, but that isn't a bad thing. You can't agree with everything you read. This book will challenge your mindset around preparing for the future and how you develop yourself personally and professionally.
"Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volitility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty."
"Anything that has more upside than downside from random events, is anti-fagile; the reverse is fragile."
"Do not mistake the unknown for the nonexistent."
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are fraud."
"Wisdom in decision making is vastly more important - not jsut practically but philosophically - than knowledge."
"Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volitility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty."
"Anything that has more upside than downside from random events, is anti-fagile; the reverse is fragile."
"Do not mistake the unknown for the nonexistent."
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are fraud."
"Wisdom in decision making is vastly more important - not jsut practically but philosophically - than knowledge."
I found this book to be interesting and provocative but I was distracted by the author only referring to women as prostitutes and mistresses in his anecdotes. Women do not feature in his world in any other way. It marred an otherwise good thesis.
Pretentieus, arrogant, bij momenten een interessant idee maar daarna weer nonsens over domeinen waar hij niks vanaf weet. Kon gerust tweehonderd bladzijden en veel pompeuze egocentriciteit kwijtgeraken en er alleen maar beter bij worden.
Zelf schrijft hij: 'Zodra ik een bepaald boek of onderwerp saai begon te vinden, stopte ik niet met lezen, maar stapte ik over op een ander boek.'
Had ik dat maar iets sneller gedaan met deze homp verwaandheid.
Zelf schrijft hij: 'Zodra ik een bepaald boek of onderwerp saai begon te vinden, stopte ik niet met lezen, maar stapte ik over op een ander boek.'
Had ik dat maar iets sneller gedaan met deze homp verwaandheid.
Dnf. I don't know what happened to the author between writing Black Swan and writing this, but it just seems to be a bunch of unhinged and incoherent rambling. Not into it.
Wow, what an amazing book. Nassim evolves his thinking and explains that this book is the current culmination of his thoughts around risk and fragility. The book deals in incredibly complex topics yet is explained in a very uncomplicated manner. The information is conveyed in a series of stories that include insights from the great philosophers (both current and ancient). Nassim builds a framework around how to think about the insights from those philosophers as well as the many other sources of knowledge in the world.