151: Antifragility – A Preview
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Antifragility is the word of the day! The idea of antifragility kept coming up today and yesterday (more on that in the episode itself), so I thought I’d do a quick episode introducing the idea. Antifragility is the quality of a system that it gets stronger when bad or unexpected things occur. It’s like a super-version of resilience or robustness. The term was invented by Nicholas Nassim Taleb in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. Links I mentioned several other podcast episodes, both mine and others, as well as a video from Chris Butler, some of my blog posts, and a Farnam Street post from which I got the quotes from Antifragile. * 107: Overcoming Biases Using Adversarial Product Management, with Chris Butler * 109: Mehmet Baha On Psychological Safety * 148: How To Improve Your Fundamental Product Management Skills * 149: Product Bible Part 1 – PRDs Are Problematic * 150: Product Bible Part 2 – What Is It? * Science of Success podcast interview with Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA. * My blog posts about mental models for product managers: Part 1, Part 2. (Soon to be a podcast episode!) My product manager meetup * If you’d like to get on the notification list for my free weekly product manager meetup, go to https://secretsofpm.com/meetup.         Antifragility is the word of the day! The idea of antifragility kept coming up today and yesterday (more on that in the episode itself), so I thought I’d do a quick episode introducing the idea. Antifragility is the quality of a system that it gets stronger when bad or unexpected things occur. It’s like a super-version of resilience or robustness. The term was invented by Nicholas Nassim Taleb in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. Links I mentioned several other podcast episodes, both mine and others, as well as a video from Chris Butler, some of my blog posts, and a Farnam Street post from which I got the quotes from Antifragile. * 107: Overcoming Biases Using Adversarial Product Management, with Chris Butler * 109: Mehmet Baha On Psychological Safety * 148: How To Improve Your Fundamental Product Management Skills * 149: ...
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