Tag: Antifragility
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Key to life is choices
We were chatting to my partner’s uncle who had driven down in his campervan to meet us. At one point he mentioned: ‘I’ve always thought that the key to life is choice.’ I think he might be right! It’s the same as optionality. He also reckoned that a lot of people work themselves out of…
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How reliant is your team on you to achieve ‘HA’ status?
This was topic of discussion for last week’s Agile Coaching Academy. I stumbled across the quote somewhere, and now I cannot find it! Ha – from Shu Ha Ri, a distillation of the path towards martial arts mastery. 守 – shu: learning the rules 破 – ha: make them your own 離 – ri: transcend…
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Future proofing your Agile career
Last week at the Agile Coaching Academy, we talked about future proofing your agile career. Were others doing this, and if so, what approach were people taking? This was initially prompted by reading Jeff Gothelf’s book ‘Forever employable’ as well as a keen interest from myself in the idea of antifragility. I also read somewhere…
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Personal Antifragility – a New Community
How can I start applying antifragility to my own personal life? This was a question that I set myself earlier in the year. I also realised that, upon reflection, I had always been attracted to the concept of antifragility before even knowing what the concept was, and conversely, I had always been cautious of decisions…
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Personal antifragility – A Vision and a Quest
This article summarizes what anti-fragility is, and outlines my own hypothesis on how one can achieve an anti-fragile constitution: personal anti-fragility. I first came across the concept ‘anti-fragility’ in the book of the same name by the writer, risk analyst and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It immediately struck a chord with me and I’ll explain…
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Start up: Saltwood
A quick post about a small start up that I’m doing together with a friend. This all started during my earlier journey about experimenting with objectives which, at one point in the story, included Craig as the mentor during our surf trip together. During that trip, we got talking about objectives and we decided to…