Ask HN: What do you think of Taleb's “Antifragile” concept?

Yes. When I first heard about it (on EconTalk in early 2012) I was at a crossroads regarding my business and life, and the antifragile concept convinced me that the harder/riskier path was the best one, as even if my business failed, the lessons I'd learn would make me far stronger and more capable than if I took the easier path.

Six years later, that one struggling company is now two successful companies, I'm in a strong financial position personally, and I've learned unique insights that could have a major, broad impact if I continue on this path.

Antifragile seems to be basically a remarketed version of "complex networks". Networks which have dense connection and removal of nodes doesnt change network radius by a lot.

Complex societies can be graphed as network and complexity would be evident in network structure. So results would hold i guess. I usually find talebi very verbose

The more you optimise something, the more fragile it gets. So to make something antifragile, you have to make something far from optimal. That book really didn't inspire me like some of his earlier work.

It was only yesterday that I wrote up my thoughts about Taleb's ideas and how the apply to software development.

tl;dr

antifragile is testing, fuzzing and chaos engineering

skin in the game is devops

http://petr-tik.github.io/talebian-software-development.html