Start-ups are antifragile businesses
Start-ups are antifragile businesses: they look for ways to fail quickly and gain from those failures. Drug dealers are also anti-fragile: the crazier shit gets, the more fucked up people want to get
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Everything is Fcked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson*
In the book
Some systems weaken under stress; others actually grow stronger from it. The goal is not merely to survive the shaking but to be built so the shaking improves you — the way a young venture learns fastest by failing fast and cheap, the way a family that meets hardship together becomes ever more resilient and agile with each blow it absorbs. Children, strangely, are the natural masters of this; it is we grown pilots who have forgotten how, we who are afraid. — Takeoff Into Chaos