Personal Antifragility

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  • Capacity for adaptability

    Whilst watching a documentary about reindeer herders in the Siberian Taiga, the narrator said that the nomads have a ‘high capacity for adaptability’. It might just have been a throw-away comment, but it made a lot of sense and I wondered about it afterwards. Was it true? It was more than being adaptable. What was the…

  • Other People’s Dreams

    I bumped into a friend’s dad a few days ago, now happily retired and busying himself with model steam trains and building kit cars. It’s always comforting speaking to a friend’s dad – you sort of grew up with them so you feel this closeness and familiarity even if you haven’t seen them for a…