Beyond resistance
Taleb distinguishes the fragile, the robust, and what can benefit from certain kinds of disorder. The third category gives the book its title.
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Antifragile
ABOUT THE BOOK
An argument about systems that gain from volatility, stress, and uncertainty.
A CLOSER LOOK
The story behind it.
An argument about systems that gain from volatility, stress, and uncertainty.
Who carries the downside
Examples involving risk and exposure ask who receives the gains and who bears the losses. That distribution matters to the book’s account of systems and decisions.
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Introductions are grounded in the sources below. Collection notes and reading prompts provide an editorial starting point; personal opinions are identified in the collection’s content.
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