Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The fragile breaks from volatility. The antifragile gains from it.”

“The opposite of fragile is not robust; the robust resists shocks and stays the same.”

“A barbell beats a fragile middle: keep one side safe and the other exposed to asymmetric upside.”

“Optionality is intelligence without prediction: you do not need to know the future when your downside is capped.”

“Small stressors train systems; oversized stressors destroy them. Dose is the difference.”

“Via negativa is often the cleanest improvement: remove what harms before adding what promises to help.”