{"id":5104,"date":"2012-11-28T23:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T07:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2012-11-28T23:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T07:32:32","slug":"falkenblog-taleb-mishandles-fragility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/falkenblog-taleb-mishandles-fragility\/","title":{"rendered":"Falkenblog: Taleb Mishandles Fragility"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Christmas traditions have gone from stockings and exchanging gifts, to fruitcakes, bad sweaters, NBA games, and now Taleb books, a sign that perhaps the Mayan return isn&#8217;t so much an apocalypse but rather a mercy killing. Taleb is one of many best-selling authors I don&#8217;t enjoy (Tom Friedman, Robert Kiyosaki, Snooki), but as he is prolix, pretentious, petulant and clueless, I enjoy commenting on his latest blather (my review of Black Swan <a href=\"http:\/\/falkenblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/review-of-talebs-black-swan.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, Bed of Procrustes <a href=\"http:\/\/falkenblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/nassim-taleb-imitates-kanye-west.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>His latest book Antifragile is driven by his discovery that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7IpTpjhVo7I\" target=\"_blank\">not an English word for the opposite of fragile<\/a>, which he thinks could not be &#8216;robust&#8217; (this neologism is one of the few new ideas presented in this book, not that I think we need more new Taleb ideas). Fragile things lose a lot of value when mishandled, &#8216;anti-fragile&#8217; things increase a lot in value when mishandled. He thinks this is very profound and therefore needs a book. The problem is that mishandle implies an adverse effect by definition, which is why there isn&#8217;t a word for something that goes up in value when you mishandle it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/falkenblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/taleb-mishandles-fragility.html\">Falkenblog: Taleb Mishandles Fragility<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas traditions have gone from stockings and exchanging gifts, to fruitcakes, bad sweaters, NBA games, and now Taleb books, a sign that perhaps the Mayan return isn&#8217;t so much an apocalypse but rather a mercy killing. Taleb is one of many best-selling authors I don&#8217;t enjoy (Tom Friedman, Robert Kiyosaki, Snooki), but as he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","category-haters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","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=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}