Personal Antifragility

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  • Ernest Hemmingway: Antifragilista

    I watched a documentary about Ernest Hemmingway. He traveled and lived in many places around the world seeking out the wild and novel. Hunting, bull running, drinking, street fighting, poetry, womanizing, marlin fishing, etc – basically living life to the max – the volume turned up to full. A real character. What I found interesting was…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 4-day Week – The Fridays Project (Experiment)

    The story behind the Friday Projects What is the Friday Projects?

  • 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…

  • Why do we have Pensions?

    I’ve been looking into pensions and I’ve been reading a bit more about why they even exist. I stumbled across a Government paper which talks about how to incentivise pensions which gives a few clues. On the face of it, the pension is just a financial wrapper. It means that the money won’t be taxed at a…

  • Financial Advisors: Working towards Financial Antifragility

    I’ve finally got round to speaking with a financial advisor. I told the advisor that my goal was to work toward financial antifragility. For obvious reasons. He knew the concept of antifragility and was very amenable to the idea, but, naturally, he had his ‘tried and tested methodology’ which he has been using with clients…

  • History of Money & Future Crypto

    Great video, from an hour in talks about history of money and the future. Made me think of fragility and antifragility in the history of money / exchange and importance of diversification in portfolio Things that stood out to me:

  • 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…