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Ich bin ja ein wenig spät dran, wenn ich jetzt das Buch "Antifragilität" von Nassim Nicholas Taleb lese, welches immerhin bereits 2012 erschienen ist. Aber das Thema - Systeme, die an Unordnung nicht zugrunde gehen, sondern sogar daran wachsen - ist natürlich auch für Informatiker interessant. Wenn im Buch dann ab und an auch das eigentliche Thema durchblitzt, ist es ja durchaus bemerkenswert, aber leider ist der ganze Schreibstil so ausschweifend, so von einer Nichtigkeit zur anderen hüpfend, so von Ego-Nachrichten durchzogen, dass der interessante Kern kaum durchdringen kann. Es ist beinahe so, wie wenn jemand 100 Wörter und mehr braucht, um zu sagen: Lohnt sich nicht.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book)
#antifragile #taleb #book

The Lindy Effect:

#Nassim #Taleb popularized the
#Lindy #Effect:
the observation that for non-perishable things,
every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy.

A book that has been in print for a hundred years will probably be in print for another hundred.

A technology that has worked for decades is,
by virtue of having survived,
more robust than the shiny new thing that hasn't been stress-tested by time.

The forty-year-old COBOL system running bank transactions has survived countless technological upheavals,
it has survived the internet,
and it has survived DOGE.

It works.

The sexy new microservices architecture might work,
or it might introduce seventeen novel failure modes that nobody anticipated because nobody had encountered them before.

But maintainers of legacy systems are treated as janitors rather than guardians.

We act as if working on old code is a punishment,
-- a career dead-end,
when in fact it may be the most consequential work in the entire organization.

When the flashy new system fails,
everyone notices.

When the old system keeps running, nobody does.

Invisibility is the maintainer's reward for competence.

Taleb's concept of "skin in the game" is closely related to his broader ideas about risk, resilience, and anti-fragility. He argues that systems with "skin in the game" are more robust and able to withstand unexpected events, because they have a built-in mechanism for alignment of interests and accountability. #iyi #taleb https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1609576801168228352

Very hard to distill down to 7, but here some books I like.

#TheBlackSwan - #Taleb
#TheSunAlsoRises - #Hemingway
#UndauntedCourage - Ambrose
#EmbracingDefeat - Dower
#Neuromancer - Gibson
#1Q84 - #Murakami
#TheFaceofBattle - Keegan

#7books

Very hard to distill down to 7, but here some books I like.

#TheBlackSwan - #Taleb
#TheSunAlsoRises - #Hemingway
#UndauntedCourage - Ambrose
#EmbracingDefeat - Dower
#Neuromancer - Gibson
#1Q84 - #Murakami
#TheFaceofBattle - Keegan

#7books

Very hard to distill down to 7, but here some books I like.

#TheBlackSwan - #Taleb
#TheSunAlsoRises - #Hemingway
#UndauntedCourage - Ambrose
#EmbracingDefeat - Dower
#Neuromancer - Gibson
#1Q84 - #Murakami
#TheFaceofBattle - Keegan

#7books