Opening book details…
Can I read Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3) on EtoBox?
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3) about?
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes . Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The r
Who reads Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299069442
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Philosophy, Science
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (16,843 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera
Browse all works by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera
Similar books
- Incerto : the Landmark Investigation of Luck, Uncertainty, Probability, Opacity, Human Error, Risk, Disorder, and Decision-making in a World We Don't Understand — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2019)
- Summary of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder — Paul Adams (2018)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto Book 1) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008)
- Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012)
- The Black Swan : the Impact of the Highly Improbable — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Chandler, Nassim N. (2007)
- Zombie Scrum Survival Guide : a Journey to Recovery — Barry Overeem; Johannes Schartau; Christiaan Verwijs (2020)