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Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • 639 pages · about 11 hours
  • First published 2012
  • 18 editions
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1 About this book

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom.

This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), and The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), and is the fourth book in the five-volume philosophical treatise on uncertainty titled Incerto. Some of the ideas are expanded on in Taleb's fifth book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: psychology, business, and a long read.

  • Resilience (Personality trait)
  • Psychology
  • Business & economics
  • Complexity
  • Psychological Resilience
  • Adjustment (Psychology)
  • Adaptability (Psychology)
  • Popular psychology

2 About Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Born 1960

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American university professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. Taleb wrote Incerto, a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 which includes the notable volumes The Black Swan and Antifragile.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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