With Antifragile, Taleb is offering us a 500+ page manual to achieve antifragility. He himself admits that here he has become a “practitioner” of his cumulative theories (“I eat my own cooking.”), and this book is “a main corpus focused on uncertainty, randomness, probability, disorder, and what to do in a world we don’t understand, a world with unseen elements and properties, the random and the complex; that is, decision making under opacity.” And throughout, Antifragile is crammed with Taleb’s unique and aggressive style of mixing the scholarly, the historical, the modern, the profound, and even the minutia, amounting to a mountain of thought that Taleb intends will “revive the not well known philosophical notion of doxastic commitment, a class of beliefs that go beyond talk, and to which we are committed enough to take personal risks.” In other words, Taleb wants us to do, not just think about doing.

via Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder « 800 CEO Read.
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