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Antifragile

Failure, Resilience, Ethics, and Judgment

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The VMT Review — Founder library

This develops the idea that some systems do more than resist volatility; they improve from stress and variation. The concept is powerful, though the book ranges widely and sometimes loosely across fields.

What the reader will learn

Readers learn to favor small reversible experiments, avoid catastrophic downside, maintain optionality, and design organizations that learn from stress without placing the entire company at risk.