VIA NEGATIVA: “A 2000 page legistation is fragile; a ten page one is robust; removing a harmful legislation is antifragile.” Anonymous person at my lecture yesterdayAlso: “Increasing happiness if fragile, decreasing known sources of unhappiness is antifragile.” A footnote in Antifragile, based on the mafia expression “I have a pebble in my shoe I want you to remove it”.
Looking for the brilliant Anonymous person who gave the quote yesterday at Politics & Prose in Washington, to give credit.
A 2000 page legistation is fragile…
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