biAntifragile iis a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are iFooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, iand iThe Bed of Procrustesi.b pNassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of iThe Black Swani and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. p Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. p In iThe Black Swan, iTaleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In