{"id":6663,"date":"2014-03-13T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:13:58","slug":"heach-antifragile-a-review-or-two-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/heach-antifragile-a-review-or-two-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"HEACH: Antifragile &#8211; a review or two, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Antifragile &#8211; Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 9780141038223<\/p>\n<p>While I was reading this book &#8211; during the days around Christmas 2013 &#8211; a major storm ravaged northern and western Europe. At one point my wife asked \u201cWhat is that book about, anyway\u201d and the perfect illustration of my answer presented itself in all newspapers the next morning: hundreds of thousands of households in Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, France and The United Kingdom were without electricity. How much easier could you want for an example to explain the concept of a fragile system? Some systems are so much optimalised that they work smoothly in the normal situation in Taleb\u2019s vocabulary \u2018mediocristan\u2019, but as soon as an event of certain impact unexpectedly, or dismissed as not probable manifests itself, the vulnerable system collapses as a house of cards. The system is fragile and breaks, often with catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/heach.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/antifragile-review-or-two-sort-of.html\">HEACH: Antifragile &#8211; a review or two, sort of<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antifragile &#8211; Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 9780141038223 While I was reading this book &#8211; during the days around Christmas 2013 &#8211; a major storm ravaged northern and western Europe. At one point my wife asked \u201cWhat is that book about, anyway\u201d and the perfect illustration of my answer presented [&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":[365],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663","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=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6664,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}