Antifragile
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Things That Gain from Disorder
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41%
Critic Reviews: 17
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75%
Reader Ratings: 146
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Synopsis
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain... more
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published: November 27, 2012 by
Genre: Business & Economics, Health, Fitness & Dieting, Law & Philosophy. Non-fiction. 544 pages
- All Critics: 17
- Positive: 9
- Negative: 8
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The New York Times | 16 Dec 2012
...Mr. Taleb undermines his more persuasive ideas by scattering them about in a book that is also filled with gross generalizations and rash assertions, all indiscriminately lobbed at the reader.
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The Guardian | 21 Nov 2012
We do live in a fragile world, vulnerable to extreme shocks. But antifragility is not the solution.
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Los Angeles Times | 20 Dec 2012
...this scattershot approach comes at the expense of fully developing his ideas sometimes. Yet it works for the most part, exemplifying the way form follows function.
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The Guardian | 15 Dec 2012
The Black Swan author's latest book is full of important warnings and insights – and a whole lot of hubris
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The Wall Street Journal | 26 Nov 2012
This is a bold, entertaining, clever book, richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.
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Scientific American | 5 Dec 2012
Antifragile brims with bluster, mean-spirited diatribes and chest-thumping self-congratulation.
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Daily Kos | 12 Dec 2012
The book is very readable for the non-technical with great stories. The book is layered so if you want to go technical you can.
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Publishers Weekly | 15 Oct 2012
More worldview than rigorous argument, Taleb’s ramblings may strike readers with knowledge-shknowledge as ill-considered.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jan 2013
A stimulating modern rejoinder to Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction.
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Los Angeles Times | 20 Dec 2012
At once thought-provoking and brilliant, this book dares you not to read it.
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The Boston Globe | 25 Dec 2012
It isn’t particularly tightly organized, and one gets the sense this wasn’t an accident on the author’s part.
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The New York Times | 16 Dec 2012
A reader could easily run out of adjectives to describe . . . Antifragile. The first ones that come to mind are . . . maddening, bold, repititious . . . indulgent . . . perspicacious.
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The Daily Beast | 26 Nov 2012
It would be easy to write off the entire book as precisely the kind of cocksure theorizing that Taleb himself so adamantly condemns. This would be a mistake.
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The Telegraph | 3 Dec 2012
Antifragile has annoyed fans of Taleb’s earlier works because, in turning away from statistics, his thought has become baggier, bombastic and often preposterous.
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The Economist | 17 Nov 2012
“Antifragile” is as much about the author as it is about the world.
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Business Insider | 21 Nov 2012
Antifragile is trying to be two things at once: a philosophical treatise and a how-to guide for living.
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Review (Barnes & Noble) | 12 Dec 2012
Taleb is a man holding a live wire connected to a heretofore untapped cosmic dynamo, shooting sparks out his eyes and fingertips while trying to power our Tinkertoy inventions with the holy current.
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By Chris Spoke 13 Feb 2013
Most book reviewers aren't smart enough to properly review this book. This is must-read non-fiction.
By Ken Johnson 25 Mar 2013
Surprised by the negative critic reviews. This book delivers an insight with every page.