Just picked up a copy of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. At first glance, I thought he was talking about my desk. You mean it's not about me? Oh. Anyway, just reading the prologue made me reach for the yellow highlighter. Here is a sample of eye-catchers:
"we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking"
"This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most."
"...the largest fragilizer of society, and the greatest generator of crises, absence of 'skin in the game.' "
"Life is more, a lot more, labyrinthine than shown in our memory - our minds are in the business of turning history into something smooth and linear, which makes us underestimate randomness."
"You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness."
"It is of great help that Mother Nature - thanks to antifragility - is the best expert at rare events, and the best manager of Black Swans; in its billions of years it succeeded in getting here without much command-and-control instruction from an Ivy League-educated director nominated by a search committee."
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