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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Book Recommendation)



If The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is the first completed book for 2013. This one is the first for 2014. Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is truly a thought provoking book. Ever since I read The Black Swan, I believed that the extremistan truly ruled the world. This book exposed 3 sets of personality, the fragile, that breaks and fall upon encountering black swans. The robust that demonstrates resiliency when faced with black swans. And the antifragile that gains from black swans. The journey with the book revealed the pitfalls of large economies and corporations and the recommendations how to be antifragile. Few of my favorites includes the barbell strategy and the skin to the game concepts. Embrace uncertainty, randomness and error... It may just change our lives.
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