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lubieniebieski 's review for:
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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!