Antifragile Writing

Building a writing that gains from disorder

Fragile is the property of things that aren’t good with any kind of stressors. Glass is fragile.

Resilience is the property of things that can go back to its original state after a stressor is applied. Metal is resilient.

Robust is the property of things that resist stressors. A stone is robust.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb came up with this concept of antifragile to define the property of some things that get better, grow, or even get stronger against stressors. Bones are antifragile — they get stronger when stress is applied, otherwise, they get weak. *

It’s Nietzsche’s “What does not kill me makes me stronger”.

Stressors can be shocks, volatility, disorder, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures.

The concept can be applied to several areas: economics, risk analysis, medicine, psychology… Taleb’s book makes a review of the concept in several areas and cases.

One remarkable thing about learning the antifragile property is, once you can identify it, how to design or build systems or things that are antifragile, or at least that can be more antifragile?

Once you get the concept you start to look for it in everything around you. One of…