Antifragile

Why it’s on the list: The constructive half of Taleb’s Incerto: beyond robustness there are systems that get stronger under stress, and the practical question is how to build optionality and skin in the game into your exposures.

Where I heard about it

• Spotted at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle — June 2025 (Books photo album)

• My own bookshelf — a copy I own but haven’t read: the literal anti-library case, a book bought and shelved rather than a recommendation received.

• In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide, 2016) — the archive of his monthly book-club recommendations, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide).

• On Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf — Patrick Collison’s catalog of the physical books he owns (unflagged). Saved in Kyle’s April 19th, 2020 Roam daily note.

Connections

• Books To Read — the Apple Note this shelf transcription came from.