“The human body has built-in redundancies: two eyes, two kidneys, two lungs. It is good to incorporate that model into everything we create.”
16 Aug 2010
“The notion of fragility and robustness that I am bringing is applicable across domains,” said Nicholas Nassim Taleb in a recent interview with The Guardian. “The human body has built-in redundancies: two eyes, two kidneys, two lungs. It is good to incorporate that model into everything we create.”
Taleb was warning about the fragility of the world financial system for years before the crash, and for the exact reasons that the crash happened, so I take his views on fragility and resilience very seriously. He is very much steeped in the world of finance, but, as he says, I think many of his insights have wider implications. I don’t take everything he says as gospel, but I try to read everything he does say.
