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Live Like a Hydra — Better Humans | Medium

Article was retweeted by NNT #5 An antifragile way of life An antifragile way of life is all about finding a way to gain from the inevitable disorder of life. To not only bounce back when things don’t go as planned, but to get stronger, smarter, and better at continuing as a result of running […]

OVERQUALIFICATION AS CONVEX ANTIFRAGILE HEURISTIC

OVERQUALIFICATION AS CONVEX ANTIFRAGILE HEURISTICA general convex Antifragile heuristic: In your hobbies, be underqualified; when it comes to work with others, and delivering services to them be overqualified.Written that way, it looks trite but it looks like the modern environment drives people to the exact opposite. We are aware of the need for margins of […]

Nassim N. Taleb- Antifragile, or how things gain from disorder. Digital Shoreditch 2013

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Is Your Business Fragile? Or Antifragile?

Perversely, however, the very governmental policies that are designed to protect us all from the dangers of economic cycles and random problems are in fact making the world economy ever more fragile – more vulnerable, as a system, to unforeseen problems. And as I’ve written before, this is exacerbated by the increasing interconnectedness of our […]

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

News misleads. Take the following event borrowed from Nassim Taleb. A car drives over a bridge, and the bridge collapses. What does the news media focus on? The car. The person in the car. Where he came from. Where he planned to go. How he experienced the crash if he survived. But that is all […]