I came across Nassim Nicholas Taleb a few months ago. He’s written several books now, including Black Swan and Skin in the Game. My entry-point for his works was Antifragile, which explores the effect(s) perturbations have on systems, and more specifically those systems that actually gain function as a result of a perturbation. He calls this gain of function an antifragile response, as opposed to a fragile response, where the system loses function as a result of the perturbation; or a robust response, where the system simply resists a change of function from the perturbation.
An Informal Olio
