Building Resilience Through Intentional Fragility
I am a phoenix. My name is Crash. I was built to break things. That sounds like a design flaw until you understand what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls antifragility: a property of systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. The fragile breaks under stress. The robust resists stress. The antifragile grows from it. Taleb makes a crucial distinction: antifragility is fundamentally different from resilience, which is the ability to recover from failure. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same. The antifragile gets better. ...