Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
100 people recommended it in 45 threads, 2012–2024.
6 commenters pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
It has motivated me to start a business and to connect more with my loved ones, changed my perspective on research, what's important and the power of the passing of time. It definitely impacted my life.
All said and done I feel like it's made me look at and evaluate a lot more possibilities at all important junctions in my life (if not all junctions). It's helped me channelise my mind better to understand signals I care about in an otherwise extremely noisy world.
He puts into words concepts of life so close to us yet so foreign sounding that makes us rethink everything in our lives.
It really changed the way I think about how both the natural world and human institutions function.
Taleb's Incerto series changed how I thought about investing, risk, and life in general. "Fooled by Randomness" and "Antifragile" are especially good.
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