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Episode 13 - Locally Grown is Antifragile
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In June, I did my annual salmon impersonation and swam upstream from FL to my spawning grounds of New England. During my visit, I spent some time with dear friends in Peterborough, NH and discovered a new book in “the throne room” that their son was reading. It was Anti Fragile by Nassem Taleb. Initially I thought it belonged to my friend John but I was impressed to see his son was the owner. I read one of Taleb’s previous books, the best-seller The Black Swan and it was pretty darn good, so I bought a copy and dove in. What I found was a more elegant explanation and confirmation of some of the key concepts in my own book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government published in 2019, six years later than the 2012 Antifragile. Little did I know it but I was recognizing the same evolution of our society towards fragility and away from antifragility. Spoiler alert: This is not a good thing. The book left enough of an impression on me that I wanted to share some of its insights and how they apply to building better government and better economic outcomes for each of us.
United We Stand. Divided We Fall. Each One for the Other, and All for All.
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