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#052 - Antifragile: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
Jun 13, 2024
Author Nassim Taleb discusses the core concepts of antifragility, concavity vs convexity, wealth, barbell strategy, Lindy effect, and raising antifragile kids. Exploring the importance of stressors, optionality, and via negativa principle in becoming antifragile. The podcast delves into the ethics of antifragility, signal vs noise, and the Green Lumber Fallacy. Touching on modernity, political systems, and the importance of embracing uncertainty in life and business.
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- Hormesis benefits from small harmful doses triggering improvement.
- Swiss local decision variations enhance national stability amid modernity.
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Hormesis, Modernity, and Fragility
Hormesis is highlighted as beneficial, where small doses of harmful substances can trigger overreactions for overall improvement. The discussion on modernity contrasts stability with fragility, emphasizing how top-down interventions can lead to naive decisions. The example of Switzerland showcases stability from bottom-up canton structures, linking the variation in local decisions to increased national stability.
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