At first I wasn't sure what to make of this book, but I suppose that's understandable, what with me not having read Taleb's previous work, that is, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. Eventually, I came to be convinced that this book is, without a doubt, one of the most brilliant, most intelligent analyses of our economic society, of risk, personal as well as systemic, that I've read in a long, long time.

To be fair, I do not understand the full implication of the message, of what fragility vs antifragility entails, and I will be reading this book again soon, because --- there is so much to gain by understanding the principle.

Basically, there exists in the world today, those things that suffer from stress and damage, which Taleb calls "fragile": you drop a glass, it breaks; mechanics in general. And then there exists other things, those that suffer the damage, and not only do they recover from the damage, they grow stronger: for example, the body, muscles, organic material.

Apply this principle and analyze your surroundings, that's what Taleb does. It's brilliant!

Do read.