[PUBLISHER] Merge #63

Author: Glyphack

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@@ -6,8 +6,36 @@ title: Antifragile
 author: "[[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]]"
 isbn13: 978-0812979688
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+This book starts with these 4 observations in life:
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+- The Barbell: There are things with a lot more upside than downside those are worth going for.
+- Optionality: Have more options available. Choose things that give you [more options](https://www.paulgraham.com/when.html).
+- Via Negativa: Sometimes it's easier to rule out wrong answers than finding the right answer.
+- Skin in the game: Don't take advice from people who don't suffer the consequence of their words.
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+I find these ideas unobtrusive. The first two are things you naturally want to do but never do.
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+Via Negativa is something everyone does at school yet this skill is somehow lost later in life yet I don't see many people doing it.
+It might be because you look stupid if you try many wrong solutions just to find out which ones won't work.
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+Skin in the game is useful when someone is giving you their predictions about the world. My conversations usually goes like this:
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+"We're gonna have world war 3 soon" predictor say.
+"Have you bet on it in poly market" I ask.
+Silence.
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+The ideas are helpful when choosing a direction but not what to do.
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+The book contains more interesting ideas. The 4 I mentioned are the things you see repeated in the book.
+It looks into different fields and find examples where some idea was used or dismissed and what happened.
+There's a catch here which is these ideas are not things you can prove.
+After reading the book I felt I'm more biased toward things following the 4 ideas mentioned.
+But these are not proved in this book. There's a lot of backing arguments but still they can be wrong in some point.
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+I found the last parts of the book somewhat repetitive since there was less new ideas. But it definitely worth reading.