Antifragility
Developing anti-fragile systems, processes and world-views can be seen as a Non Predictive Strategy for approaching uncertainty (past, present or future):
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. -Taleb
Principles
- Pursue barbell approaches
- Focus on options
- Be curious
- Get out of your comfort zone
- Focus on the edge
- Conduct lots of experiments and tinker
- Don’t get consumed by data
- Focus on building/accessing tacit knowledge rather than rationality and explicit knowledge
- Focus on subtractive knowledge
- Collaborate and trade
- Respect the old
- Beware of wealth, debt and reputation
References
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. Penguin Books
Further notes in Taleb Robustness and Fragility and Antifragility