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I haven't seen Taleb offer solutions... in the one book i managed to go through he just told you endlessly to be prepared for unpredictable events.


A long time since I read it but I think he gave examples like mithridatism, poisoning yourself to build up resistance. Anti-fragility is about incorporating change as an expectation instead of seeking stability and fearing it.

For software, that would mean practices like Chaos Monkey. If your production system stays up while an external process is constantly killing processes and deliberately corrupting memory and files then you have good confidence of riding through unexpected failures.




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