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Samuel

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  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | [Nassim Nicholas Taleb]
    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
    UNABRIDGED

    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 13 mins)
    • By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated By Joe Ochman
    Overall
    (302)
    Performance
    (255)
    Story
    (256)

    In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner.

    PHIL says: "Some good ideas, smart guy, not smart as HE thinks"
    "Why was this censored?"
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    Performance
    Story
    If you could sum up Antifragile in three words, what would they be?

    Captivating, applicable, snarky.


    What did you like best about this story?

    Taleb does a good job of linking his overall points to experiences in day to day life.


    How did the narrator detract from the book?

    The narrator did an acceptable job. What was unacceptable was the decision to bleep out swear-words. This isn't a children's book, and the occasional "bullsh*t" and "f*ck-you" are very much in Taleb's style of communicating. Bleeping them out was distracting and very disruptive.


    Any additional comments?

    I have to ask, why would someone bleep out swear words in a book like this? It's not quite as bad as censoring a book like Orwell's 1984, but it's close.

    17 of 17 people found this review helpful

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