{"id":4964,"date":"2012-11-13T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2012-11-13T21:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T05:52:59","slug":"antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-800-ceo-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-800-ceo-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder \u00ab 800 CEO Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>With Antifragile, Taleb is offering us a 500+ page manual to achieve antifragility. He himself admits that here he has become a \u201cpractitioner\u201d of his cumulative theories (\u201cI eat my own cooking.\u201d), and this book is \u201ca main corpus focused on uncertainty, randomness, probability, disorder, and what to do in a world we don\u2019t understand, a world with unseen elements and properties, the random and the complex; that is, decision making under opacity.\u201d And throughout, Antifragile is crammed with Taleb\u2019s unique and aggressive style of mixing the scholarly, the historical, the modern, the profound, and even the minutia, amounting to a mountain of thought that Taleb intends will \u201crevive the not well known philosophical notion of doxastic commitment, a class of beliefs that go beyond talk, and to which we are committed enough to take personal risks.\u201d In other words, Taleb wants us to do, not just think about doing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.800ceoread.com\/2012\/11\/13\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder\/\">Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder \u00ab 800 CEO Read<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Antifragile, Taleb is offering us a 500+ page manual to achieve antifragility. He himself admits that here he has become a \u201cpractitioner\u201d of his cumulative theories (\u201cI eat my own cooking.\u201d), and this book is \u201ca main corpus focused on uncertainty, randomness, probability, disorder, and what to do in a world we don\u2019t understand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[365],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","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=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}