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By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012.

Key Concepts

• Antifragile: An actual opposite to fragile does not exist. There is a linear scale from fragile, to robust, to antifragile. Response of fragile and antifragile systems to volatility is determinant here.x

• Procrustean Bed: You cut people to fit them into your one-size beds (and doing a great job at it).

• Iatrogenics: the negative impact of an intervention.

• Barbell strategy: which gives you a structure to create antifragility

• Optionality: then you have a positive view towards volatility.

• Lecturing birds on how to fly.

• The green lumber fallacy

• The sucker vs non-sucker