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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nicholas Nicholas Taleb

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

Jason Evanish recommends it affiliate
This book has dramatically changed my life. Taleb has laid out a way of looking at the world and investing financially and in yourself that is transformative. The concepts of antifragility, optionality, and the barbell are simple on the surface, but Taleb gives them great color and depth that give you much deeper understanding that a few words in a glossary could ever provide. This book is a beast and my only complaint is how dense and difficult some sections were. Be prepared to re-read sections to really understand it.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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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.