CHAPTER 6 Tell Them I Love (Some) Randomness

When the variation comes, people will rush into the door. HUNGRY DONKEYS Equal distance between food and water makes donkey die of hunger or thirst. Political Annealing The problem of the United States is the two-party system, you cannot randomize a party that doesn’t exist. The Second Step: Do (Small) Wars Save Lives? Maybe the small wars or some battles strengthen the country. What to Tell the Foreign Policy Makers...

March 8, 2020 · 144 words · Qiran

CHAPTER 5 The Souk and the Office Building

TWO TYPES OF PROFESSIONS There are two types of professions, employee and taxi driver, though the first one has a high salary and stable, it’s fragile. This profession is in a system of artificial and human-made. But the second one is antifragile, same kind profession corporates artisan, prostitute, etc. Nature like small mistakes and variability. Lenin in Zurich Because Swiss have no government, it formed a bottom-up system that causes stability....

February 14, 2020 · 424 words · Qiran

What Kills Me Makes Others Stronger

Antifragility by layers Some parts on the inside of a system may be required to be fragile in order to make the system antifragile as a result. All restaurants are combating with each other in order to form the antifragility of the whole group. If a single restaurant is too robust when the crisis happens, all reasons are boil down to the fragile of this restaurant. Evolution and Unpredictability Nature (and nature-like systems) likes diversity between organisms rather than diversity within an immortal organism…...

January 10, 2020 · 446 words · Qiran

The Cat and the Washing Machine

organic and mechanical are different, organisms are antifragile, also for human-beings. But in modern society, humans all live longer but weak, because the environment is so fragile. Unlike natural environment, their working environment, medicine and living quarters all making them weaker and weaker. Unlike mechanicals, organisms will become stronger because of self-repair in some point. The Complex The man-made mechanicals are complicated but not complex, If you break them down, they don’t cause a ripple effect....

November 29, 2019 · 326 words · Qiran

Overcompensation and Overreaction Everywhere

If as want to innovate and get creativities, we must get in trouble first, we cannot get invention from comfort. HOW TO WIN A HORSE RACE If we want to finish a task, we must finish it in our busiest time. Antifragile Responses as Redundancy the human’s kidney is a form of redundancy, it isn’t useless, because you can save for bad times. So it’s the same reason why we need to build strong will and get in trouble even though there is no hazard....

November 27, 2019 · 375 words · Qiran