Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” detailed the impossibility of predicting the future, which jerks forward by way of massive changes such as the ...

We all know what “fragile” means. But what is the opposite of fragile? If you are like me, your instinctive response would be “robust” or perhaps “durable.” But you would be wrong. Something that is ...

Can we exploit the fact that life is unpredictable, chaotic, full of shocks and disasters? Trader-turned-scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb is based at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and ...

In “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the blockbuster “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” explains how a variety of things, from the ...

The opposite of fragility isn’t robustness, but antifragility. Antifragility implies you’ve got more to gain than to lose. Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. Asking “what’s the next black ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. If you don't know who Nassim Nicholas Taleb is, you most likely are familiar with his book, The Black Swan and ...

I've read 289 books in the past four years. Some were awful. Others were incredible. But I took notes on all of them. I've never known what to do with these notes. Then I got an idea: I'll dump some ...

OK, an admission. I’ve been avoiding reading Antifragile, the latest but now three-year-old book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Nothing against Taleb; I follow him on twitter and really enjoyed his earlier ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a reflective practitioner—a man with the mind of a scholar and the intestinal fortitude of a trader. His book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Random House ...

I've read 289 books in the past four years. Some were awful. Others were incredible. But I took notes on all of them. I've never known what to do with these notes. Then I got an idea: I'll dump some ...