Antifragile

The Incerto series by Nassim Taleb, specially The Black Swan and Antifragile. It is hard to make predictions, specially about the future, some good heuristics may be of help.

The Road to Wigan Pier - Orwell Antifragile - Taleb What is Life? - Schrodinger Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs - Abelson

Become a better story teller and persuader, and learn how to make better decisions and manage risk. A few books that helped me in no particular order … The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr Influence - Robert Cialdini Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman Antifragile - Nassim Taleb How Innovation Works - Natt Ridley The One Thing You Need to Know - Marcus Buckingham Team of Teams - General Stanley McChrystal

“Out of the Crisis” by Demming: helped me see the best way to manage projects isn’t always about fixing problems, it starts with reducing uncertainty. “Seeing like a state”, “Knowledge and Power”, and “Antifragile”, top down control of a system always clashes with bottom up understanding, so experts in a field need humility when working with a new system and need to learn from the people who work with it every day. “Critique of Pure Reason”, there are things we can’t know using only logic, so don’t try to use it to understand everything.

Incerto by Nassim Taleb. Best piece of work I've ever read. I'm re-reading it, and still... what a masterpiece, a mind-blowing piece of work. Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile remain my "Holy Trinity" of books. You just couldn't stop reading them.

I haven't read any others but anti-fragility is the book that has made me think more than any other I've read in the past few years. If you can get past the childish name calling it's worth it - I'll have to read his others next

Wow this rings so true. I just read antifragile and while I like the ideas I can't imagine how insufferable the author is in person

Antifragile

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has implications that I find impact very disparate areas. It's hard work in places though. The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann is a wonderfully readable and accessible intro to complexity, which again is a topic that seems to crop up all over the place. Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine cites a shedload of research to dispel gender-related myths. It should be taught in schools, in my opinion.

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

- Nassim N. Taleb: Black Swan and Antifragile[0] - Robert Cialdini: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion[1] - Franklin Foer: World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech[2] - Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society[3] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Frag... (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X) [1] https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober... (https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X) [2] https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Mind-Existential-Threat... (https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Mind-Existential-Threat/dp/1101981113) [3] https://www.amazon.com/One-Dimensional-Man-Ideology-Industri... (https://www.amazon.com/One-Dimensional-Man-Ideology-Industrial-Routledge/dp/0415289777)

Not the black swan, but anything else is a fine intro. Antifragile or Fooled by randomness but work

IMO start with antifragile.

Antifragile - This book change my ways of thinking about life. Also this year I've read Black Swan, another great book by the same author.

Antifragile or The Obstacle Is The Way - are probably the most influential

Read books you always wanted but wouldn't get around to with all the distractions available at home. Be it classics, political theory, maybe something light and scientific? Generally, whatever doesn't require additional materials. Here are some titles of that kind I enjoyed. Anabasis by Xenophon Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Antifragile by Nassim Taleb Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman The Son also Rises by Gregory Clark