Antifragile11 - critical summary review

About the summary

Here at 12min, we are big fans of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The author of "The Black Swan" always comes on our list of favorite books and was one of the first micro books we created. If in "The Black Swan" Taleb has shown us that highly improbable and unpredictable events are widespread and shape our world, in his new book he brings us a concept as interesting as the Swan. The "Antifragile" covers things and ideas that not only benefit from chaos but also need it to survive. In an antifragile world, uncertainty becomes necessary, for only that which is antifragile can grow and develop. Antifragile is the instruction manual for living in a world full of possibilities, and this microbook will introduce you to its key concepts.

Who wrote the book?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese American author, former hedge fund manager, derivatives trader, and a scholar dealing with probability and uncertainty. He holds degrees in mathematical finance and worked as a researcher at... (Read more)

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