Category: Antifragility
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The Antifragile Career – Lessons from ‘Forever Employable’
In the book, ‘Forever Employable’, Jeff Gothelf provides some valuable and actionable steps for ‘future-proofing’ your career. The approach has a lot synergies with the concept of antifragility. Jeff relates how he woke up “scared shitless” on his 35th birthday. What he describes is essentially a hyper-fragile lifestyle – a lifestyle that many are not…
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Problems are Golden Nuggets to be Mined
if problems are golden nuggets to be found (a quote from ‘Getting the Right Things Done‘, Pascal Denis), have I ever thought about how to surface more problems in my own personal life? How would I do that? I saw in the #RWRI conference a nice quote, ‘go figure out what will bankrupt you and then work…
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The Challenge of Uncertainty
Simplicity = Low uncertainty Take a simple system like a light switch, there are not really a lot of possibilities for something unexpected to happen. In one configuration of the switch the light is on, and the other one the light is off. The only thing that could possibly happen is that in both configurations…
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Notes on Designing for Antifragility
In this session, we looked at how to design for antifragilityHere are the principles put forward by Luca Dellanna and I’ll add some of my own comments (if applicable). Objectives trickle down, innovation trickles up.This is pretty standard for any strategy deployment since whoever is defining the intention of the strategy cannot also define how is to…
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Antifragility & The Adaptive Brain
Another very interesting talk from Luca Dellanna, this time about the adaptive brain. I think I need to listen to the talk again (this is my first bash, a few days after listening), but essentially we start off by realising that minimising one risk is not necessarily enough – nor even helpful. In fact, minimising one…
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Hormesis & Antifragility
Hormesis is a biological process in which exposure to a low dose of a toxin or stressor that is damaging at higher doses induces an adaptive beneficial effect on the cell or organism. An example from exercise: Another example Cold water swimming:
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4-day Week – The Fridays Project (Experiment)
The story behind the Friday Projects What is the Friday Projects?
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Antifragility and the Brain
Top image shows normal “default” state where most of what we experience is predicted through top-down priors, i.e we see / experience what we expect to see based on robust instantiated patterns from past experience. This makes sense from information/physical theories as the brain tries to ‘minimize free energy’ and surprise. The ball falling and…
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Hacking my own Antifragile Investment Buckets
I went through all of the FTSE 100 and categorized all of the companies into the following based on their company mission and portfolio of products or offerings. I also checked what types of jobs they were recruiting for. I paid no attention whatsoever to past performance since it doesn’t predict the future in a…
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Adaptive Systems Course and Antifragility
I’m currently taking a course with Luca Dellanna covering: The first session was about antifragility, and was extremely helpful in my own understanding and cleared up a few things that I had found difficult to convey to others. The first thing that became clearer was how to visualise the states fragility and antifragility on a…