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Antifragile
Philosophy
Some systems gain from disorder. A taxonomy of fragility, robustness, and the third thing.
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“Shopify is practically built on that book”
Lütke has repeatedly credited Taleb's Antifragile as a foundational framework for how Shopify is engineered to benefit from volatility.
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“[One of] the best books for business people.”
Bookmarked.club cites Petersen's tweet listing best books for business people.
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#38 on the all-time Hacker News books list (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder).
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“Another big book for me was Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. That book put on paper a lot of things that I had a sense about but couldn't really articulate.”
Named in Sequoia's 'Seven Questions with Doug Leone' (2018), where the quote is verified, and again on the 20VC episode where he tied it to staying 'tough as nails' through life.
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- twitter.com tweet
- hackernewsbooks.com · Top Books on Hacker News reading list
- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf reading list
- articles.sequoiacap.com · 2018 06 20 Doug Leone link
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