Not an endorsement, just an observation.
About
Antifragile Movement educates people about the implementation of the concept of antifragility in our daily lives in order to become less fragile.
Mission
Antifragile Movement was founded by Rachid Tahri. It educates people about the implementation of the concept of antifragility, discovered by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, in our daily lives in order to become less fragile.
Antifragile Movement.
HatTip to Dave Lull
Antifragile things have built-in redundancies. This point stuck out to me the most. Unlike fragile systems/organizations/people, antifragile things don’t make efficiency the primary goal. For the antifragile, thriving in randomness is the goal, which often requires being “inefficient” through layering redundancies.
As Taleb notes: “Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens — usually.”
Nature is filled with “inefficient” redundancies. Animals have two lungs, two kidneys, and two testicles, when one of each would work just fine. Since one in a pair of organs can become disabled through disease or trauma, it pays to have a spare.
Besides allowing you to weather storms, Taleb argues that redundancies also allow you to become stronger.
via Beyond “Sissy” Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile | The Art of Manliness.
HatTip Dave Lull
In my last post we considered the idea of Antifragility and how libraries might consider making our collections more anti-fragile. Today I’d like to discuss how we take the antifragile concept further by considering an antifragile approach to discovery, as well as exploring librarianship as a tool for antifragilism.
Arguably, the whole idea of libraries, particularly public libraries, is inherently one of antifragility. The public library allows those with an interest in knowledge or ideas to pursue that interest, without requiring the individual means to fund it. The more our world changes, the more valuable the public library becomes as a source of ideas, information and inspiration. Our communities become stronger and more resilient as they share and discover old skills, new ideas and inspiring stories.
via Antifragile Libraries pt 2: Antifragile librarianship | It’s Not About the Books.
HatTip Dave Lull
I recently read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s excellent book Antifragile: how to live in a world we don’t understand. It’s a rather sprawling, heavily footnoted opus – but with time to reflect I think Taleb has a great deal to teach librarians.
Given the word count Taleb assigns to railing against bureaucrats, corporations, universities and government institutions, he may be less than impressed by my application of his ideas to academic, corporate and public libraries. He does make an exception for municipal government, however, so perhaps he would let public librarians like myself off the hook.
via Antifragile Libraries pt 1: Antifragility and collections | It’s Not About the Books.
HatTip to Dave Lull
Not exactly but… Great to see NNT’s concepts making their way into the mainstream.
HatTip to Pradeep
But this lack of flexibility and the fact that every transgression is a strike against you, make dieting an unsustainable proposition for most people.
So what’s the alternative? Is there an antifragile way of losing weight?
The alternative approach is to focus on changing behaviour. The behavioural approach relies on analysing eating (with the help of a food diary) and then identifying those particular behaviours and triggers that contribute to your increasing weight.
If you can change the triggers and the behaviours (so that the new behaviours become a habit) you will start losing weight naturally. Because your habits have changed, the weight loss should be for the long-term.
The key with changing behaviour is that when things go wrong, it’s not a disaster. It actually provides vital information about triggers and behaviours that need to be changed.