{"id":1297,"date":"2024-02-04T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2024-02-04T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:40:20","slug":"care-to-be-anti-fragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/04\/care-to-be-anti-fragile\/","title":{"rendered":"Care to be Anti Fragile?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How often do we the above signage across packages, airport luggage, courier shipments and more. Giving it the kid glove treatment. Molly coddle.<\/p>\n

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Anti fragile<\/em><\/span> as a term has been vastly enhanced by Nicholas Nassim Taleb<\/em><\/span>‘s seminal book<\/em> <\/span><\/a>of the same name. Where he talks about how things can gain from disorder. Contrary to the popular perception that prevails.<\/p>\n

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Anti-fragility<\/span><\/em> is a concept that has gained popularity in recent years, especially in business. It refers to\u00a0the ability of a system or an individual to not only withstand stress and adversity but thrive under such conditions. Being secure in the status quo is akin to being in a state of impasse and you lose the opportunity to embrace discomfort, dance with our fears and get better at what we can do. It actually is a bottomless pit and going south is what happens most of the time. Because one is so wrapped around the concept of fragile.<\/p>\n

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Antifragility has a singular property of\u00a0allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them\u2014 and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Convexity of antifragility is where the accelerating curve is due to feedback. In his book, Nassim Taleb<\/em><\/span> gives three examples of antifragility: Airlines, Restaurants, <\/em>and <\/span>Silicon Valley<\/em><\/span>. All three of these become stronger every time something goes wrong. Amazon <\/em>and<\/span> Zoom <\/em><\/span>are two examples of antifragile companies that thrived<\/em><\/span> during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Anti fragile is NOT synonymous with resilient and hence not to be confused. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. The infographic below offers a better explanation.<\/p>\n

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Image Source: TUVRheinland | Risktec\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In a world fraught with uncertainty, opaqueness, poor decision making, human error, risk and all of that, being anti fragile<\/em><\/span> (as individuals or organisations) can be the knight in shining armour.<\/p>\n

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    How often do we the above signage across packages, airport luggage, courier shipments and more. Giving it the kid glove treatment. Molly coddle.   Anti fragile as a term has been vastly enhanced by Nicholas Nassim Taleb‘s seminal book of the same name. Where he talks about how things can gain from disorder. … Continue reading “Care to be Anti Fragile?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t