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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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David Rubenstein
I had previously read Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable; I enjoyed it, and this book is definitely better. Taleb has a very non-traditional style of writing--often conversational, historical, philosophical, and scientific--all at the same time.

Taleb's basic thesis is that people and institutions are either fragile, robust, or antifragile. A fragile person is one who thinks he can predict the future--and when things go very sour, he is sorely hurt, usually in a f
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Angela
Jan 31, 2021 rated it really liked it
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More a review of me than of this book: I've been trying to read this book since 2013. Abandoned it several times due to the author coming across as a jerk. Left it for several years. This time, read it through, no issues with the tone. I didn't even find myself getting annoyed with it. I just ignored that part of it and paid attention to the information. Hmmm.

(Rating is based on the ideas in the book, not the above.)
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