Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand - New Delhi Penguin Books India (P) Ltd. 2012 - 519p
BOOK I THE ANTIFRAGILE: AN INTRODUCTION ch. 1 Between Damocles and Hydra Half of life has no name Please behead me On the necessity of naming Proto-antifragility Domain independence is domain dependent ch. 2 Overcompensation and overreaction everywhere How to win a horse race Antifragile responses as redundancy On the antifragility of riots, love, and other unexpected beneficiaries of stress Please ban my book: the antifragility of information Get another Job ch. 3 The cat and the washing machine The complex Stressors are information Equilibrium, not again Crimes against children Punished by translation Touristification The secret thirst for chance ch. 4 What kills me makes others stronger Antifragility by layers Evolution and unpredictability Organisms are populations and populations are organisms Thank you, errors Learning from the mistakes of others How to become Mother Teresa Why the aggregate hates the Individual What does not kill me kills others Me and us National entrepreneur day BOOK II MODERNITY AND THE DENIAL OF ANTIFRAGILITY ch. 5 The Souk and the office building Two types of professions Lenin in Zurich Bottom-up variations Away from extremistan The Great Turkey problem Twelve thousand years War, prison, or both Pax Romana War or no war ch. 6 Tell them I love (some) randomness Hungry donkeys Political annealing That time bomb called stability The second step: do (small) wars save lives? What to tell the foreign policy makers What do we call Here modernity? ch. 7 Naive intervention Intervention and latrogenics First, do no harm The opposite of Iatrogenics Iatrogenics in high places Can a whale fly like an eagle? Not doing nothing Non-naive interventionism In praise of procrastination-the Fabian kind Neuroticism in industrial proportions A Legal way to kill people Media-driven neuroticism The state can help-when incompetent France is messier than you think Sweden and the large state Catalyst-as-cause confusion ch. 8 Prediction as a child of modernity Ms. Bre has competitors The predictive Plus or minus bad teeth The idea of becoming a non-Turkey No more Black Swans BOOK III A NONPREDICTIVE VIEW OF THE WORLD ch. 9 Fat Tony and the fragilistas Indolent fellow travelers The importance of lunch The antifragility of libraries On suckers and nonsuckers Loneliness What the nonpredictor can predict ch. 10 Seneca's upside and downside Is this really serious? Less downside from life Stoicism's emotional robustification The domestication of emotions How to become the master The foundational asymmetry ch. 11 Never marry the rock Star On the irreversibility of broken packages Seneca's barbell The accountant and the rock star Away from the golden middle The domestication of uncertainty BOOK IV OPTIONALITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF ANTIFRAGILITY Do you really know where you are going? The teleological fallacy America's principal asset ch. 12 Thales' sweet grapes Option and asymmetry The options of sweet grapes Saturday evening in London Your rent Asymmetry Things that like dispersion The Thalesian and the Aristotelian How to be stupid Nature and options The rationality Life Is long gamma Roman politics likes optionality Next ch. 13 Lecturing birds on how to fly Once more, less is more Mind the gaps Search and how errors can be investments Creative and uncreative destructions The Soviet-Harvard Department of Ornithology Epiphenomena Greed as a cause Debunking epiphenomena Cherry-picking (or the fallacy of confirmation) ch. 14 When two things are not the "same thing" Where are the stressors? L'Art pour l'Art, to learn for learning's sake Polished dinner partners The green lumber fallacy How fat Tony got rich (and fat) Conflation Prometheus and epimetheus ch. 15 History written by the losers The evidence staring at us Is it like cooking? The industrial revolution Governments should spend on nonteleological tinkering, not research The case in medicine Matt Ridley's anti-teleological argument Corporate teleology The inverse Turkey problem To fail seven times, plus or minus two The Charlatan, the academic, and the showman ch. 16 A lesson in disorder The ecological and the Ludic The touristification of the soccer mom An antifragile (Barbell) Education ch. 17 Fat Tony debates socrates Euthyphro Fat Tony versus socrates Primacy of definitional knowledge Mistaking the unintelligible for the unintelligent Tradition The sucker-nonsucker Distinction Fragility, Not Probability Conflation of Events and Exposure Conclusion to Book IV What Will Happen Next? BOOK V THE NONLINEAR AND THE NONLINEAR On the Importance of Attics ch. 18 On the Difference Between a Large Stone and a Thousand Pebbles A Simple Rule to Detect the Fragile Why Is Fragility Nonlinear? When to Smile and When to Frown Why Is the Concave Hurt by Black Swan Events? Traffic in New York Someone Call New York City Officials Where More Is Different A "Balanced Meal" Run, Don't Walk Small May Be Ugly, It Is Certainly Less Fragile How to Be Squeezed Kerviel and Micro-Kerviel How to Exit a Movie Theater Projects and Prediction Why Planes Don't Arrive Early Wars, Deficits, and Deficits Where the "Efficient" Is Not Efficient Contents note continued: Pollution and Harm to the Planet The Nonlinearity of Wealth Conclusion ch. 19 The Philosopher's Stone and Its Inverse How to Detect Who Will Go Bust The Idea of Positive and Negative Model Error How to Lose a Grandmother Now the Philosopher's Stone How to Transform Gold into Mud: The Inverse Philosopher's Stone BOOK VI VIA NEGATIVA Where Is the Charlatan? Subtractive Knowledge Barbells, Again Less Is More ch. 20 Time and Fragility From Simonides to Jensen Learning to Subtract Technology at Its Best To Age in Reverse: The Lindy Effect A Few Mental Biases Neomania and Treadmill Effects Architecture and the Irreversible Neomania Wall to Wall Windows Metrification Turning Science into Journalism What Should Break Prophets and the Present Empedocles' Dog What Does Not Make Sense ch. 21 Medicine, Convexity, and Opacity How to Argue in an Emergency Room First principle of Iatrogenics (empiricism) Second principle of Iatrogenics (nonlinearity in response) Jensen's inequality in medicine Burying the evidence The never-ending history of Turkey situations Nature's opaque logic Guilty or innocent Plead ignorance of biology: phenomenology The ancients were more caustic How to medicate half the population The "rigor of mathematics" in medicine ch. 22 To live long, but not too long Life expectancy and convexity Subtraction adds to your life The Iatrogenics of money Religion and naive interventionism If it's Wednesday, I must be vegan Convexity effects and random nutrition How to eat yourself Walk-deprived I want to live forever BOOK VII THE ETHICS OF FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY ch. 23 Skin in the game: antifragility and optionality at the expense of others Hammurabi The talker's free option Postdicting The Stiglitz Syndrome The problem of frequency, or how to lose arguments The right decision for the wrong reason The ancients and the Stiglitz Syndrome To burn one's vessels How poetry Can kill you The problem of insulation Champagne socialism Soul in the game Options, antifragility, and social fairness The Robert Rubin free option Which Adam Smith? The antifragility and ethics of (large) corporations Artisans, marketing, and the cheapest to deliver Lawrence of Arabia or Meyer Lansky ch. 24 Fitting ethics to a profession Wealth without Independence The professionals and the collective The ethical and the legal Casuistry as optionality Big data and the researcher's option The tyranny of the collective ch. 25 Conclusion Epilogue.
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Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand - New Delhi Penguin Books India (P) Ltd. 2012 - 519p
BOOK I THE ANTIFRAGILE: AN INTRODUCTION ch. 1 Between Damocles and Hydra Half of life has no name Please behead me On the necessity of naming Proto-antifragility Domain independence is domain dependent ch. 2 Overcompensation and overreaction everywhere How to win a horse race Antifragile responses as redundancy On the antifragility of riots, love, and other unexpected beneficiaries of stress Please ban my book: the antifragility of information Get another Job ch. 3 The cat and the washing machine The complex Stressors are information Equilibrium, not again Crimes against children Punished by translation Touristification The secret thirst for chance ch. 4 What kills me makes others stronger Antifragility by layers Evolution and unpredictability Organisms are populations and populations are organisms Thank you, errors Learning from the mistakes of others How to become Mother Teresa Why the aggregate hates the Individual What does not kill me kills others Me and us National entrepreneur day BOOK II MODERNITY AND THE DENIAL OF ANTIFRAGILITY ch. 5 The Souk and the office building Two types of professions Lenin in Zurich Bottom-up variations Away from extremistan The Great Turkey problem Twelve thousand years War, prison, or both Pax Romana War or no war ch. 6 Tell them I love (some) randomness Hungry donkeys Political annealing That time bomb called stability The second step: do (small) wars save lives? What to tell the foreign policy makers What do we call Here modernity? ch. 7 Naive intervention Intervention and latrogenics First, do no harm The opposite of Iatrogenics Iatrogenics in high places Can a whale fly like an eagle? Not doing nothing Non-naive interventionism In praise of procrastination-the Fabian kind Neuroticism in industrial proportions A Legal way to kill people Media-driven neuroticism The state can help-when incompetent France is messier than you think Sweden and the large state Catalyst-as-cause confusion ch. 8 Prediction as a child of modernity Ms. Bre has competitors The predictive Plus or minus bad teeth The idea of becoming a non-Turkey No more Black Swans BOOK III A NONPREDICTIVE VIEW OF THE WORLD ch. 9 Fat Tony and the fragilistas Indolent fellow travelers The importance of lunch The antifragility of libraries On suckers and nonsuckers Loneliness What the nonpredictor can predict ch. 10 Seneca's upside and downside Is this really serious? Less downside from life Stoicism's emotional robustification The domestication of emotions How to become the master The foundational asymmetry ch. 11 Never marry the rock Star On the irreversibility of broken packages Seneca's barbell The accountant and the rock star Away from the golden middle The domestication of uncertainty BOOK IV OPTIONALITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF ANTIFRAGILITY Do you really know where you are going? The teleological fallacy America's principal asset ch. 12 Thales' sweet grapes Option and asymmetry The options of sweet grapes Saturday evening in London Your rent Asymmetry Things that like dispersion The Thalesian and the Aristotelian How to be stupid Nature and options The rationality Life Is long gamma Roman politics likes optionality Next ch. 13 Lecturing birds on how to fly Once more, less is more Mind the gaps Search and how errors can be investments Creative and uncreative destructions The Soviet-Harvard Department of Ornithology Epiphenomena Greed as a cause Debunking epiphenomena Cherry-picking (or the fallacy of confirmation) ch. 14 When two things are not the "same thing" Where are the stressors? L'Art pour l'Art, to learn for learning's sake Polished dinner partners The green lumber fallacy How fat Tony got rich (and fat) Conflation Prometheus and epimetheus ch. 15 History written by the losers The evidence staring at us Is it like cooking? The industrial revolution Governments should spend on nonteleological tinkering, not research The case in medicine Matt Ridley's anti-teleological argument Corporate teleology The inverse Turkey problem To fail seven times, plus or minus two The Charlatan, the academic, and the showman ch. 16 A lesson in disorder The ecological and the Ludic The touristification of the soccer mom An antifragile (Barbell) Education ch. 17 Fat Tony debates socrates Euthyphro Fat Tony versus socrates Primacy of definitional knowledge Mistaking the unintelligible for the unintelligent Tradition The sucker-nonsucker Distinction Fragility, Not Probability Conflation of Events and Exposure Conclusion to Book IV What Will Happen Next? BOOK V THE NONLINEAR AND THE NONLINEAR On the Importance of Attics ch. 18 On the Difference Between a Large Stone and a Thousand Pebbles A Simple Rule to Detect the Fragile Why Is Fragility Nonlinear? When to Smile and When to Frown Why Is the Concave Hurt by Black Swan Events? Traffic in New York Someone Call New York City Officials Where More Is Different A "Balanced Meal" Run, Don't Walk Small May Be Ugly, It Is Certainly Less Fragile How to Be Squeezed Kerviel and Micro-Kerviel How to Exit a Movie Theater Projects and Prediction Why Planes Don't Arrive Early Wars, Deficits, and Deficits Where the "Efficient" Is Not Efficient Contents note continued: Pollution and Harm to the Planet The Nonlinearity of Wealth Conclusion ch. 19 The Philosopher's Stone and Its Inverse How to Detect Who Will Go Bust The Idea of Positive and Negative Model Error How to Lose a Grandmother Now the Philosopher's Stone How to Transform Gold into Mud: The Inverse Philosopher's Stone BOOK VI VIA NEGATIVA Where Is the Charlatan? Subtractive Knowledge Barbells, Again Less Is More ch. 20 Time and Fragility From Simonides to Jensen Learning to Subtract Technology at Its Best To Age in Reverse: The Lindy Effect A Few Mental Biases Neomania and Treadmill Effects Architecture and the Irreversible Neomania Wall to Wall Windows Metrification Turning Science into Journalism What Should Break Prophets and the Present Empedocles' Dog What Does Not Make Sense ch. 21 Medicine, Convexity, and Opacity How to Argue in an Emergency Room First principle of Iatrogenics (empiricism) Second principle of Iatrogenics (nonlinearity in response) Jensen's inequality in medicine Burying the evidence The never-ending history of Turkey situations Nature's opaque logic Guilty or innocent Plead ignorance of biology: phenomenology The ancients were more caustic How to medicate half the population The "rigor of mathematics" in medicine ch. 22 To live long, but not too long Life expectancy and convexity Subtraction adds to your life The Iatrogenics of money Religion and naive interventionism If it's Wednesday, I must be vegan Convexity effects and random nutrition How to eat yourself Walk-deprived I want to live forever BOOK VII THE ETHICS OF FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY ch. 23 Skin in the game: antifragility and optionality at the expense of others Hammurabi The talker's free option Postdicting The Stiglitz Syndrome The problem of frequency, or how to lose arguments The right decision for the wrong reason The ancients and the Stiglitz Syndrome To burn one's vessels How poetry Can kill you The problem of insulation Champagne socialism Soul in the game Options, antifragility, and social fairness The Robert Rubin free option Which Adam Smith? The antifragility and ethics of (large) corporations Artisans, marketing, and the cheapest to deliver Lawrence of Arabia or Meyer Lansky ch. 24 Fitting ethics to a profession Wealth without Independence The professionals and the collective The ethical and the legal Casuistry as optionality Big data and the researcher's option The tyranny of the collective ch. 25 Conclusion Epilogue.
9781846141560
Adaptability (Psychology)
Adjustment (Psychology)
Behaviour
Personality
Resilience (Personality Trait)
Social Change
Uncertainty - Social Aspects
155.24 / TAL