{"id":4833,"date":"2012-10-14T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2012-10-14T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T23:05:16","slug":"nonfiction-review-antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-random-30-560p-isbn-978-1-4000-6782-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/nonfiction-review-antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-random-30-560p-isbn-978-1-4000-6782-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonfiction Review: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Random, $30 560p ISBN 978-1-4000-6782-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go! HatTip to Dave Lull.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Taleb\u2019s vigorous, blustery prose drips with Nietzschean scorn for academics, bankers, and bourgeois \u201csissies\u201d who crave comfort and moderation: \u201cIf you take risks and face your fate with dignity,\u201d he intones, \u201cinsults by half-men small men, those who don\u2019t risk\u201d are no more rankling than \u201cbarks by non-human animals.\u201d More worldview than rigorous argument, Taleb\u2019s ramblings may strike readers with knowledge-shknowledge as ill-considered; still, he presents a rich\u2014and often telling\u2014critique of modern civilization\u2019s obsession with security<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-4000-6782-4\">Nonfiction Review: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Random, $30 560p ISBN 978-1-4000-6782-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go! HatTip to Dave Lull. Taleb\u2019s vigorous, blustery prose drips with Nietzschean scorn for academics, bankers, and bourgeois \u201csissies\u201d who crave comfort and moderation: \u201cIf you take risks and face your fate with dignity,\u201d he intones, \u201cinsults by half-men small men, those who don\u2019t risk\u201d are no more rankling than \u201cbarks by non-human [&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":[563],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-antifragile-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","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=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}