{"id":2503,"date":"2014-03-07T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:49:40","slug":"antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb\" title=\"Antifragile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/antifragile.jpg\" alt=\"Antifragile\" height=\"160px\" \/><br \/>\nThe first &#8216;serious&#8217; book I have read for a while &#8211; have had the book for a few months and just started to read it. Sometimes new ideas are difficult to grasp &#8211; but for me the central idea of this book is &#8220;obvious&#8221;. I put that in quotes because it is only obvious because of other things I have read\/experienced\/thought over the years. Taleb&#8217;s style may not be everyone&#8217;s cup of tea, but I quite enjoy reading him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first &#8216;serious&#8217; book I have read for a while &#8211; have had the book for a few months and just started to read it. Sometimes new ideas are difficult to grasp &#8211; but for me the central idea of this book is &#8220;obvious&#8221;. I put that in quotes because it is only obvious because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[80,81,103,110,119],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-complexity","tag-decision-making","tag-philosophical","tag-systems-thinking","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}