Epiphanies from Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Foreign Policy

Epiphanies from Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Foreign Policy

Taleb is always fun to read and like every time he leaves you with doubts about well established ideas like the advantages of economies of scale or even democracy. Again he explains all this with his new term: "antifragility"... Calls Switzerland a boring country but then again, to his view, the most stable political system there is, because of the many policy levels but the decision level which is at the lowest point (eg. towns, districts, ...). The concept is simple, what is too big becomes fragile. The opposite of such a fragile system, we would think, is robust... Wrong again, robust is just a less fragile "fragile" :-) That's why he came up with "antifragile":

things that gain strength from stressors and get stronger from failure, like evolution.

I already pre ordered his new book on this new insight of his. Hope to write a review about it next month. :-)