{"id":3946,"date":"2011-12-04T18:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T02:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2011-12-04T18:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T02:15:38","slug":"nassim-nicholas-taleb-and-antifragility-%c2%ab-curiously-persistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-and-antifragility-%c2%ab-curiously-persistent\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Antifragility \u00ab Curiously Persistent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The subject was Taleb\u2019s latest book \u2013 Antifragility \u2013 which he hopes isn\u2019t as simplified as his previous book he seemed to dislike the fact that The Black Swan was bought and read in airports by people who subsequently misinterpreted it. I think he has succeeded, as at times I struggled to grasp his arguments.Nevertheless, I\u2019ll have a go at summarising it.<\/p>\n<p>The images below are taken from his slides, available alongside the audio of the event, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/audio-and-past-events\/2011\/the-predictability-of-unpredictability\">RSA website<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/curiouslypersistent.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/04\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-and-antifragility\/\">Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Antifragility \u00ab Curiously Persistent<\/a>.<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject was Taleb\u2019s latest book \u2013 Antifragility \u2013 which he hopes isn\u2019t as simplified as his previous book he seemed to dislike the fact that The Black Swan was bought and read in airports by people who subsequently misinterpreted it. I think he has succeeded, as at times I struggled to grasp his arguments.Nevertheless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}