I am s l o w l y reading Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which contains—besides the book itself—a glossary, two appendices, an afterthoughts section with graphs and tables, and a 24-page bibliography.

Anyway, it’s great and I expect to finish it in a decade or so.

Also I have an advance uncorrected proof which I picked up for $1 somewhere and I hope the final edition left this gem of a sentence alone:

“We just don’t want to just survive uncertainty, just about make it.”

It’s comforting to see that this very smart person also overuses adverbs.

This bit is particularly relevant given the events and reactions-to-events of the last few years:

“…modern culture has been increasingly building blindness to the mysterious, the impenetrable, what Nietzsche called the Dionysian, in life.

In short, the fragilista (medical, economic, social planner) is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects potentially severe and invisible.”

You can interpret that however you want.