This Christmas you may get a package labeled
,
which you know means “don’t shake the box to guess its contents!”. Most gifts will be unlabeled, meaning they are robust, that is, unaffected by shaking. But robust is not the opposite of fragile. Antifragile is its opposite. Nassim Taleb, in
his book by the same name, defines antifragile as those objects and systems that
improve when perturbed. Thus, an antifragile Christmas package would come with the following label:
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