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antifragile is a book and conceptconcept
In what is philosophy?, a concept is a creation (act of creativity) that testifies to the positive power of thinking as an event of life. philosophy creates concepts and puts th... by Nassim Taleb, about how systems deal with chaoschaos
before the seas and land had been created,
before the sky that covers everything,
nature displayed a single aspect only
throughout the cosmos; chaos was its name,
a shapeless, unwrought mass of ... and Black Swan Private or Broken Links
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. Broadly, there are three categories of systems on a spectrum.
Type | Figure | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Fragile | Damocles | Crumbles under perturbation |
Robust | Phoenix | Persists under perturbation |
Antifragile | Hydra | Strengthens under perturbation |
taleb coins the word antifragile, but since he considers time as an example of chaos, there is an existing synonym for antifragile: futureproof.
antifragile techniques
Antifragile systems need some stressors to thrive.
- Mithridatization
- Exposure from small to increasingly larger doses of an immunizing substance