Quotes About Adaptation

What did not kill me did not make me stronger, but spared me because i am stronger than others; but it killed others and the average population is now stronger because the weak are gone.

benefits from volatility and variability.

An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly

Genes follow majority rule; languages minority rule. Languages travel; genes less so.

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

Just as a little bit of fire here and there gets rid of the flammable material in a forest, a little bit of harm here and there in an economy weeds out the vulnerable firms early enough to allow them to "fail early" (so they can start again) and minimize the long-term damage to the system.

size hurts you at times of stress; it is not a good idea to be large during difficult times.

Ele percebeu que algumas coisas precisam se quebrar para que o sistema se aperfeiçoe — o que é denominado de destruição criativa —, uma noção desenvolvida, entre muitos outros, pelo filósofo Karl Marx, e um conceito descoberto, como mostraremos no capítulo 17, por Nietzsche.

The laser is a prime illustration of a tool made for a given purpose (actually no real purpose) that then found applications that were not even dreamed of at the time. It was a typical "solution looking for a problem.

Diversity here has to do with the degree of uncertainty inherent in the process.

Uma das contingências da vida: não existe estabilidade sem volatilidade.

Large animals are more fragile to shocks than small ones—

If you want to become antifragile, put yourself in the situation "loves mistakes"—to the right of "hates mistakes"—by making these numerous and small in harm. We will call this process and approach the "barbell" strategy.

Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Not only is it difficult for the journalist to think more like a historian, but it is, alas, the historian who is becoming more like the journalist.

Otherwise they become fragile. That, I completely missed.* Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel—just as fire does.

someone may evolve and contradict earlier beliefs

hackers make systems stronger.

This absence of penalty makes them antifragile at the expense of the society

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things look like.

the project managers incur only small errors and can adapt to them.

the second lesson is more aggressive: you can actually take advantage of the problem of prediction and epistemic arrogance!

If you are a Stone Age historical thinker called on to predict the future in a comprehensive report for your chief tribal planner, you must project the invention of the wheel or you will miss pretty much all of the action. Now, if you can prophesy the invention of the wheel, you already know what a wheel looks like, and thus you already know how to build a wheel, so you are already on your way. The Black Swan needs to be predicted!

Anything that hinders one's survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.