The Antifragile Diet | Dr Khandee Ahnaimugan

Leave a reply

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.

via The Antifragile Diet | Dr Khandee Ahnaimugan.

Live Like a Hydra — Better Humans | Medium

Leave a reply

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 into this disorder.

First, here are some principles that come from Antifragile:

  1. Stick to simple rules
  2. Build in redundancy and layers (no single point of failure)
  3. Resist the urge to suppress randomness
  4. Make sure that you have your soul in the game
  5. Experiment and tinker — take lots of small risks
  6. Avoid risks that, if lost, would wipe you out completely
  7. Don’t get consumed by data
  8. Keep your options open
  9. Focus more on avoiding things that don’t work than trying to find out what does work
  10. Respect the old — look for habits and rules that have been around for a long time

The general underlying principle here is to play the long game, keep your options open and avoid total failure while trying lots of different things and maintaining an open mind.

Things that don’t fit into these principles (that you’re probably more familiar with):

  • Giving something up cold turkey

  • Going all in with a single big change for a short period of time

  • Tracking everything

  • Using the latest and greatest gadgets and apps

via Live Like a Hydra — Better Humans — Medium.

Friends, let us look for heuristics to not be turkeys…

Leave a reply

Friends, let us look for heuristics to not be turkeys.In the eyes of the nonspecialist, the marketer good at BS could more easily pass for a specialist than the real specialist Plato. This extends beyond the confidence game: In a highly random environment, the link cause-effect is blurred and in large corporations the fake who knows how to claim credit for successes tends to become the chairperson.So what is the heuristic in a situation facing such a choice? Assuming you are facing two persons and need to make a decision on whose services to use, what is your convex heuristic?
“Never hire a well-dressed option trader” was a heuristic I suggested in Dynamic Hedging 1996. Avoid the economist at all costs is a potent heuristic. Another: “If someone can explain very clearly a procedure, with a credible intellectual discourse, he is not likely to be a true expert”. Or: “verify if he eats his own dog food skin-in-the-game.Eager to hear suggestions.

via Friends, let us look for heuristics to… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook.

This is technical but I am adding a note to show that the fragile is necessarily…

Leave a reply

This is technical but I am adding a note to show that the fragile is necessarily in the nonlinear concave, why existing coffee cups need to be concave in their response.Also preparing a micro-mooc on nature and why it has some specific probabistic properties and why we should mess with small things never fuck with large things we don’t understand.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/nonlinear-response.pdf

via This is technical but I am adding a note… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook.

I have to give credit where credit is due…

Leave a reply

I have to give credit where credit is due. I was at dinner with two people who said that Steve Pinker stood by them at a difficult moment, when it was very unpopular to do so, when other academics abandoned them. And he went out of his way to do so. Very honorable. So one should respect the man, without setting aside the statistical problems, or perhaps look at the statistical problems as good news: here is a man worth fighting against.

via I have to give credit where credit is… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook.