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williazo 's review for:
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After reading and enjoying Taleb's book The Black Swan, I thought that I would similarly enjoy this book. While the book did contain many interesting overarching ideas, I found myself struggling to get through it especially towards the end. One of the main detractions for me while reading is the propensity for the author to create an excessive amount of words/metaphors that tend to detract rather than enhance understanding, e.g. neomania, ephinomonea, green lumbar fallacy, barbell strategy. I was constantly having to try and search through the glossary of terms to remind myself of what these self-created terms were meant to represent. In the end this book left me more frustrated and confused when I closed it rather than thought provoking.