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Antifragile

Things That Gain From Disorder
Feb 10, 2013delfon rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
See "Foucaults Pendalum", Umberto Eco writes much the same....detailed honing in on mundane topical ideas. Uncertainty is the game, education is not good, and its good, big companies are good, and are not good, these seems the pattern Taleb gets down and mean with his education assertions...... The real surprise is in learning the historicity of the industrial revolution as being not a result of scientists, but as a result perhaps of those with lots of liesure time. Prescient for our times where 'liesure time" is equated with laziness, not insight and genius as of old. There seems an agenda, and its very complex to unravel. Compexities where there should be none. Ho Joon Chang is a radical economist, no he is not.!! I would warn this book is not all it seems. Barbs here and there, and no real historical content, excepting for the 'industrial revelution as having some innnovators. After reflection, my feeling is, its a waste of time.