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Month: June 2016

Book Summary: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb

Book Summary of Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb   Notes The wind energizes the fire and extinguishes the candle.  In the same way, we want not just to survive uncertainty, but be strengthened by it.  The opposite of fragility is not robustness, because robustness only indicates the ability to withstand uncertainty. […]

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