Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · ★★★★★ · 426 pages · 2012
Antifragile is a weird book to say the least because it seems to be a reverse of what is taught. Taleb shows that we as humans have created very fragile systems that don’t have fail safes built in such the whenever a chaotic Black Swan event occurs it completely destroys the system. Most of the book are example of the fragile and the antifragile equivalent.
Examples range from medicine where by getting unnecessary surgery you are making yourself more prone to complications that the body itself can resolve or taking multiple different medicines which might have side effects that are not known. The fragility of globalization and finance, of large companies, of science as it is practiced, soccer moms, etc.
Overall a great book that has really awakened me to the fragilities in the systems we have in place but also a book that acknowledged my own sense of unnecessary interventionism that modern day society imposes.