Since I so thoroughly enjoyed The Black Swan, I shouldn’t have delayed until now reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2012 book Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder.  But having finally gotten around to it, I recommend it highly for its withering critique of the naïve interventionism of today’s academic establishment figures – from finance to geopolitics to medicine – thanks to their utter inability to distinguish linear and non-linear systems, and to account for the risks of real world complex systems, relying instead on their woefully artificial and inadequate models. Here’s a link to a recent piece by Taleb, On Interventionistas … Continue reading Deranged Interventionistas