Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Tempted to give this a two, but there were some interesting stories so I will rank it a 3. I was tasked with reading this for work, and had never read any of the authors previous works.

There is language used in this book that makes me take the author's points less seriously, as it feels like name calling: he frequently uses the word “sissies” and has made up his own: “fragilista.” It's tiresome.

The perspective is that the opposite of fragility isn't resilience, it is getting stronger through damage (like how you build muscle). The rest of the 400+ pages are just specific micro-examples of how that plays out in life.

Could have been shorter, but I imagine for some the tons of examples are helpful? Felt like Malcolm Gladwell but much more disjointed.