Nassim Nicholas Taleb transitioned from a 21-year career as a quantitative trader to become a flaneur and researcher focusing on the philosophical, mathematical, and practical dimensions of probability. His extensive multivolume essay collection, the Incerto, delves into opacity, luck, uncertainty, risk, and decision-making in the face of the unknown. Taleb masterfully blends personal essays, stories, parables, and scholarly discussions to explore the properties of systems that can thrive amidst disorder, a concept he terms 'antifragile'. He critiques the debasement of knowledge through ceremonialism and awards, preferring a direct engagement with complex ideas.
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time