Series
Six essays on risk, fragility, and the hidden architecture of systems — inspired by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6 chapters • 30 min read
Why most organisations confuse resilience with antifragility, and why the difference matters
We built our institutions for a bell curve world, but we live in a world of extremes
The decay of modern institutions traces directly to the separation of decision-making from consequence-bearing
Across medicine, design, and policy, the most reliable path to improvement is removing what harms
The best strategies do not require you to predict the future; they require asymmetric positioning
Time is the ultimate filter. What has survived is what works, and we systematically ignore it