Mathan Balaraman

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder