Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder [2013] paperback CCON President Reagan massively increased defence

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder [2013] paperback CCON President Reagan massively increased defence'Really made me think about how I think' Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resil ient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better