Antifragile

Antifragile

by Nassim Taleb

13 mentors recommend this 639 pages

"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Pr

ISBN: 9780739370698

🎯 Who Recommends This Book 13

Ev Williams

Ev Williams

Business & Entrepreneurship

"Few books have made me think more than this one over the last decade."

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"Few books have made me think more than this one over the last decade. A meandering philosophical treatise that explores how all types of systems — your body, nature, the economy, your company — get stronger or weaker with stress. Some don’t like Taleb’s writing style, but his ideas are compelling."

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Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla

Finance & Investing

"I recommend everybody read Antifragile if they're setting off on a career as a personal philosophy."

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Vlad Tenev

Vlad Tenev

Finance & Investing

"The general concept is applicable to many fields beyond biology, for instance finance, economics and monetary policy."

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Tom Bilyeu

Tom Bilyeu

Business & Entrepreneurship

"Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website."

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Changpeng Zhao

Changpeng Zhao

Finance & Investing

"We definitely want Binance to be antifragile. This book may explain why we make some of the decisions we make."

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Tobi Lütke

Tobi Lütke

Business & Entrepreneurship

"It's so wonderful when books create the language that you need to better reason about the world. [This book] did that as well."

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Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Finance & Investing

"This book will have you asking yourself many provocative and useful questions."

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