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Publication date 20010101 usage public domain mark 1. Suppose you want to buy a pair of shoes and you live in a house that has a shoe store. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside and hence benefits from volatility, error, and stressorsthe fundamental asymmetry. From the best selling author of the black swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, nassim nicholas taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. Nassim nicholas taleb audio books, best sellers, author.
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