{"id":4985,"date":"2012-11-18T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2012-11-18T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:41:54","slug":"antifragile-how-to-live-in-a-world-we-dont-understand-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-the-sunday-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/antifragile-how-to-live-in-a-world-we-dont-understand-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-the-sunday-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don\u2019t Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The Sunday Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I t would be easy to think, from his place in the culture, that \u00adNassim Taleb writes those \u00adMalcolm Gladwell-style big ideas books that have been such a recent vogue: slick expansions of journalism with a self-help edge. But Taleb, the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, is much, much more eccentric and, in a way, more interesting than that.<\/p>\n<p>A mixture of parables, personal anecdote, ad hominem attacks, pseudo-Socratic dialogues involving an imaginary figure called Fat Tony, aphorisms and homespun philosophy ranging across subjects as diverse as finance, medicine, urban planning, political theory and how best to achieve an \u00adawesomely ripped set of abs, Antifragile reads like the ramblings of a clever, slightly cracked and intensely chippy autodidact \u2014 which is, it turns sout, exactly what it is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/culture\/books\/non_fiction\/article1163541.ece\">Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don\u2019t Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The Sunday Times<\/a>. <br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I t would be easy to think, from his place in the culture, that \u00adNassim Taleb writes those \u00adMalcolm Gladwell-style big ideas books that have been such a recent vogue: slick expansions of journalism with a self-help edge. But Taleb, the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, is much, much more eccentric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,288],"tags":[365,582],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","category-books","tag-book-review","tag-paywall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","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=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}