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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Getting Stronger through Stress: Making Black Swans Work for You

In this context, his perspective is very consistent with the critique of modern push systems that I (and my co-authors) developed in The Power of Pull. Push systems are driven by two concerns: the ability to forecast or predict events and the quest for increasing efficiency by designing systems that are highly standardized and tightly […]

The importance of being antifragile | Bjørn Stærk

Antifragility is the opposite of this, a condition where the potential downside is limited, but the upside is unlimited. A situation where things will probably go badly, but only a little badly, and in the best case they will go really well. An everyday example is that you ask someone out for a date. The […]

Philip Cross: Let’s celebrate risk | Financial Post

The antifragile viewpoint prefers age-tested heuristics to technology based on the scientific method. More specifically, it is deeply skeptical about school-based education compared with uncodifiable, intuitive, or experience-based knowledge. As the noted philosopher Yogi Berra said, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.” This is why economic models […]

» Book Review: Antifragile Coffee Theory

For as much as I love this book and Taleb’s other work, there is one thing that I must take issue with. It seems to me that being both a humanist and a proponent of antifragility are incompatible views. Taleb, however, claims that he is both of these things. The reason I see this as […]

Sorry Nassim Taleb, Technology Actually Does Matter – Forbes

Reader, Jon, who sent this along, comments, “…a great example of someone that just does not get NNT’s message… not malicious simply misguided”. Agreed! Nassim Taleb, in his new book Antifragile, is so derisive of technology that he refers to tech enthusiasm as a condition – “Neomania” – and argues that much of the progress […]