Fragile & Robust

Nassim Taleb's three-concept model includes:

• Fragile, means something doesn't tolerate variability.
• Robust, which is NOT the opposite of fragile in his model, means something that doesn't change with variability
• Anti-fragile, the opposite of fragile in the context, means improvement with variability.

A system can be easily determined by bring new variables into it:

• Fragile. if the system's performance, stability, reliability or etc. decreases
• Robust. if the system remains the same
• Anti-fragile. if the system improves overall

1: Nassim Taleb would love the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method, Zotero