Antifragile

Really made me think about how I think – Mohsin Hamid * Guardian *The hottest thinker in the world – Bryan Appleyard * The Sunday Times *A superhero of the mind – Boyd TonkinWall Street’s principal dissident – Malcolm GladwellA guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot – John Cornwell * Sunday Times *Nassim Taleb, in his exasperating but compelling book Antifragile, praises “things that gain from disorder” - people, policies and institutions designed to thrive on volatility, instead of shattering in the encounter with it – Oliver Burkman * Guardian *More than just robust or flexible, it actively thrives on disruption – Julian Baggini * Guardian *Modern life is akin to a chronic stress injury. And the way to combat it is to embrace randomness in all its forms… Taleb is the great seer of the modern age * Guardian *Something antifragile actively thrives under the impact of the unexpected…to embrace randomness rather than trying to control it * The Sunday Times *Enduring volatility is one thing; what about benefiting from it? That is what Taleb calls ‘antifragility’ and he thinks that it is the ultimate model to aspire to - for individuals, financial institutions, even nations… May well capture a quality that you have long aspired to without having quite known quite what it is… I saw the world afresh * The Times *

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromising no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honors as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.