Antifragile

Prologue

Appendix: The Triad, or map of the World and things along the three properties

Book 1: The antifragile: An introduction
1. Between Damocles and Hydra
2. Overcompensation and overreaction everywhere
3. The Cat and the washing machine
4. What kills me makes other stronger

Book 2: Modernity and the denial of antifragility
5. The Souk and the office building
6. Tell them I love (some) randomness
7. Naive intervention
8. Prediction as a child of modernity

Book 3: A Nonpredictive view of the world
9. Fat Tony and the Fragilistas
10. Seneca's upside and downside
11. Never marry the rock star

Book 4: Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility
12. Thales' Sweet grapes
13. Lecturing birds on hoe to fly
14. When two things are not the "Same Thing"
15. History written by the losers
16. A lesson in disorder
17. Fat Tony debates Socrates

Book 5: The nonlinear and the nonlinear
18. In the difference between a large stone
19. The Philosopher's Stone and its inverse

Book 6: Via negativa
20. Time and fragility
21. Medicine, convexity, and opacity
22. To live long, but not too long

Book 7: The ethics of fragility and antifragility
23. Skin in the game: Antifragility and optionality at the expense of others
24. Fitting ethics to a profession
25. Conclusion

Epilogue
Glossary
Appendix I
Appendix II
Additional notes, afterthoughts, and further reading
Bibliography
Acknowledgments

Index