Antifragility

Taleb's category beyond robust: things that gain from disorder because their payoff is convex, so shocks help more than they hurt. The portfolio expression is the barbell - most capital in the very safe, a sliver in convex long shots, and nothing in between, least of all short-volatility positions dressed up as income. Prefer positions you would welcome a crisis into over positions that merely survive one.

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