The "What is Money?" Show Bitcoin is Antifragile: Intro to Nassim Taleb’s “Antifragile” w/ Mike Kelly (WiM564)
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Mar 25, 2025 Mike Kelly, a producer and thinker inspired by Nassim Taleb, dives into the transformative ideas of anti-fragility. They explore how systems like Bitcoin benefit from challenges, emphasizing that adversity fosters growth and adaptation. Discussion covers sustainable living practices, innovative Bitcoin custody, and the complexities of resilience in society. Kelly critiques academia's monopolization of knowledge and discusses how embracing difficulties can enhance personal strength, illustrating these concepts through historical examples and modern dilemmas.
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Antifragility
- Embrace randomness, uncertainty, and chaos instead of hiding from them.
- Become antifragile, like fire energized by wind, not a candle extinguished by it.
Resilience vs. Antifragility
- Resilient systems resist shocks and remain unchanged.
- Antifragile systems improve and grow stronger when exposed to stressors.
Bacterial Resistance
- Single-celled organisms have survived for billions of years by adapting.
- Bacterial resistance demonstrates how poison strengthens organisms collectively.
