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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Books of Titans Podcast

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The Anti-Fragile Gym Machine

In anti-fragile TALAB talks about organized sports and gym machines verse so those he says are fragile. In a street fight you're gonna have to move side to side block kick do all sorts of different things in an environment with variability hence randomness does not expose us to chronic stress injury unlike human design systems if you walk on uneven not manmade train no two steps will ever be identical compare that to the randomness free gym machine offering the exact opposite forcing you into endless repetitions of the very same movement much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury end quote made me think of a story from natural born heroes what just first off the book is about the creek the creek

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