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Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012 · 639 pages

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Visakan Veerasamy loved it
I remember Antifragile blowing my mind several times when I first read it. It didn't exactly have anything dramatically new to say that I hadn't heard before in some way, but it brought together things in a way that I found compelling. It made me rethink and reevaluate a lot of my life and gave me a useful frame for making sense of things with.

on visakanv.com · 6 Mar 2021

Nat Eliason recommends it
The book that’s had one of the greatest influences on my thinking. If you enjoy the content on this site, you’ll love Antifragile.

on nateliason.com · 23 Nov 2020

Derek Sivers liked it
Bold perspectives, unusual ideas, and surprisingly wise advice around an interesting subject of the “opposite of fragile.” Looking through that lens at health, education, governments, business, and life philosophy. Very inspiring, and sparks a lot of further discussion.

on sive.rs · 15 May 2013

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.