Kenneth Collett

Tag: Antifragile

  • The Sucker’s Game (pt 1)

    In Antifragile, Nassim Taleb describes a sucker’s game as a game in which “the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects potentially severe and invisible.” Shane Parish from Farnam Street would call this first-order positive and second-order negative, or negative asymmetry. Basically, suckers take a small and visible win in the short term,…

  • It’s time to tinker

    The way you make your product, or serve your customer, the way you deliver value, is a process. You do not have the perfect process. It’s merely the way you’ve always done it, or the best one you’ve tried so far, or the one your boss showed you. But only a fool would claim it’s…