The First Law of Social Science: the longer someone’s list of contributions, the less he will be remembered.

We have 6 billion on the planet blind to the obvious, or, what’s vastly worse, half-blind, which is why we continue to need prophets to move the half-discovered into the category of the obvious.
(Added a comment about Steve Jobs to my chapter on how not to be a prophet).

In bed with the flu, second time in 2 decades, and enjoying FB which explains why I can answer any question on Antifragility for entertainment.

Friends, finally able to explain fragility, etc. (includes sensitivity to Black Swans) with a simple graph:
www.fooledbyrandomness.com/chapter4.pdf
Please let me know if this works with you.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/chapter4.pdf
www.fooledbyrandomness.com

A big historical quandary: the town of Emesa (today Homs in the Northern Levant), where Steve Jobs has his ancestry generated at least 4 Roman Emperors (Elagabalus, Caracalla’s (his mother mother Julia Domna), Geta, Severus Alexander), Catholic popes (Anicetus), many many Greek philosophers… The more I dig the more I find…