Introduction:

  • Antidote for black swans.
  • Antifragility is measureable.
  • Curiously antagonistic to intellectual design.
  • Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of other’s fragility.
  • Fragilistas are everywhere.
  • Fragility hates volitility. Antifragility loves it.
  • The disorder family: variability, stressor, uncertainity, dispersion of outcomes.
  • Overcompensation leads to antifragility.
  • Antifragile systems atrophy in the absense of stressors.
  • Obesessive love is the most antifragile thing outside economics.
  • Information is antifragile. Secrets spread like wildfire.

Evolution:

  • Engineered is fragile. Organic is antifragile.
  • Antifragility can come from layers.
  • Competition among units in one layer leads to antifragility of the higher layer.
  • Proteins < Cells < Organisms < Species < Ecosystem < Nature
  • Aggregate’s interests are opposed to individual interests.
  • What doesn’t kill me kills others, making the aggregate stronger.
  • Evolution benefits from randomness of mutation as well as environment.
  • Nature’s antifragility is within limits, but very high limits.