Nassim Taleb says that something is antifragile if it improves when exposed to volatility. The hydra grows extra heads each time you chop one off. Exposure to small amounts of poison—what the ancient pharmacologists called hormesis, and what we, today, call vaccination—can strengthen overall health.
Writers and artists are antifragile, in that the more y…
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