Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better and better. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.” -The Wall Street Journal

All four volumes- Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material-are now together in one boxed set. “ in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. time for my annual reread of Antifragile.” -Johann from Vienna, Austria (Twitter) Fourth, as ethics to learn a good way to die.” -Tamitake from Tokyo, Japan (Twitter) Third, as Das Kapital with correct mathematics.

Second, as a memorial statement for Fat Tony.

“For my wife and me, Antifragile is an annual reread.” -Colle from Richmond, Virginia (Twitter) “Taleb grabs on to core problems that others ignore, or don’t see, and shakes them like an attack dog on a leg.” -Greg from New York (Twitter) someone who is able to change the way we view the structure of the world through the strength, originality and veracity of his ideas alone.” -John Gray, GQ The problem with Taleb is that he is right.” -Dan from Prague, Czech Republic (Twitter) “The problem with Taleb is not that he’s an asshole.

Incerto fooled by randomness