Antifragile
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Pr
ISBN: 9780739370698
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Ev Williams
Business & Entrepreneurship"Few books have made me think more than this one over the last decade."
book list View source ↗"Few books have made me think more than this one over the last decade. A meandering philosophical treatise that explores how all types of systems — your body, nature, the economy, your company — get stronger or weaker with stress. Some don’t like Taleb’s writing style, but his ideas are compelling."
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Naval Ravikant
Business & Entrepreneurship""Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying.""web View source ↗
Vinod Khosla
Finance & Investing"I recommend everybody read Antifragile if they're setting off on a career as a personal philosophy."
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Vlad Tenev
Finance & Investing"The general concept is applicable to many fields beyond biology, for instance finance, economics and monetary policy."
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Tom Bilyeu
Business & Entrepreneurship"Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website."
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Changpeng Zhao
Finance & Investing"We definitely want Binance to be antifragile. This book may explain why we make some of the decisions we make."
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James Altucher
Finance & Investing"A very good book."
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Shane Parrish
Business & Entrepreneurship"Changed how I see the world."
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Tobi Lütke
Business & Entrepreneurship"It's so wonderful when books create the language that you need to better reason about the world. [This book] did that as well."
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Finance & Investing"This book will have you asking yourself many provocative and useful questions."
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