{"id":5346,"date":"2012-12-21T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2012-12-21T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:31:52","slug":"antifragility-of-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/antifragility-of-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTIFRAGILITY of REPUTATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>ANTIFRAGILITY of REPUTATION: One of the benefits of the ongoing and motivated demonizing by members of the ICIHWI, the International Confederation of Empty Suits Inflicting Harm With Impunity, (finance journalists\/academics, bureaucrato-risk &#8220;experts&#8221;, etc.) is that I am getting messages by readers of the sort &#8220;It looks like your book is worth reading IN SPITE of ego\/style\/personality\/organization&#8221; which I translate as &#8220;Your book is worth reading BECAUSE of &lt;same&gt;&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive dissonance works for self-perception (making someone feel he is not a fraud by demonizing messengers), but not to the outside. Transforming someone &#8220;who calls a fraud a fraud&#8221; into an &#8220;egomaniac&#8221; is certainly harmful for one&#8217;s social life (assuming people don&#8217;t know him in person), but has benefits for a book: nobody wants to read books by\/have a dinner conversation with\/ colorless textbookwriting nutty professors with a &#8220;well organized&#8221; discourse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151226649453375&amp;id=13012333374\">ANTIFRAGILITY of&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANTIFRAGILITY of REPUTATION: One of the benefits of the ongoing and motivated demonizing by members of the ICIHWI, the International Confederation of Empty Suits Inflicting Harm With Impunity, (finance journalists\/academics, bureaucrato-risk &#8220;experts&#8221;, etc.) is that I am getting messages by readers of the sort &#8220;It looks like your book is worth reading IN SPITE of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-reputation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","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=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}