Lebanese-American philosopher and economist famous for the Black Swan theory about unpredictable high-impact events.
You cannot avoid risks. You can only choose which risks you want to take and be prepared for them.
A system that is too stable cannot evolve. You need some level of stress and uncertainty for a system to adapt and grow.
Much of my life has been spent proving that we cannot predict the future. But we can prepare for it.
People construct stories about the past that explain it. They think they know what will happen, but the truth is it's unknowable.
Should you be fragile, robust, or antifragile in life? Antifragility means that disorder, stress, and volatility strengthen you rather than break you.
History doesn't crawl, it jumps. What we call history is just the list of events that happened, not the ones that could have happened.
A black swan is an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Nobody anticipated it. But when it happens, people always say they knew it all along.