ANTIFRAGILITY, the solution to DiSASTROUS s and the POWER of COLLECTIVITY
Scenario:
We have a system. We want to protect it from attacks, human errors, unpredictable high impact events, all bad things.
What we know ?
We have a list of known vulnerabilities, we have strategies (redundant ones, of course, for protection), we develop security layers, we use complex algorithms that "repair" the system (keep alive daemons signal the admin about problems, automatically follows alternate routes, etc).
What we don't know ?
Everything else. How particular little security breaches can link to each other forming a disastrous situation. How insignificant events crash something robust.
What can we do ?
Be prepared, right ? Be aware of system's limitations & vulnerabilities, right ? Wait and see. We'll repair it as soon as it hits us. Will investigate and continuously improve the system.
That's an engineer's, computer science's, coder's, system architect's perspective. Anyway, they developed the system. They should know better. Aren't they professionals ?
YES. THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS.
But let's try something completely opposed to that.
Something for which high-impact events or shocks can be beneficial.
Antifragility is a property of systems that increase in capability, resilience, or robustness as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. Anti-fragility goes beyond robustness; it means that something does not merely withstand a shock but actually improves because of it. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
Antifragility is something weak that becomes robust because of the hits it takes.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.
STOP. What does it have to do with STEEMIT ?
A).
First of all, everybody knows about UBUNTU, right ? And everybody knows about the meaning or the Southern African philosophy , right ?
The long and the short of it:
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'.
One more time.
'I am what I am because of who we all are'.
B).
Second, do you know Michael, the Gravity Glue guy ?
Maybe you should. There's no magic & no glue. It's gravity and playing with it.
That's about STEEMIT & STEEMIT community.
a very diversified community,
with free opinions, not based on get rich quick schemes
without privileged tags & subjects
with constructive discussions, not the ones taken too personally
with posts pro & con other's opinions (even devs, whales), using arguments, not just our frustrations. You know, constructive criticism.
less circlejerk, more openness to what free really means.
less posts, more engaged comments.
Maybe I'm a naive fucker, but
THE QUALITY IT''S NOT NECESSARY IN GOOD POSTS BUT IN FRUITFUL DISCUSSIONS (COMMENTS).
Eventually this type of spam will broke the system for all of us. Or even simpler, good/smart writers & people who have something to say will flee.
Everybody can be successful, but together we can really change things. And achieve the improbable.
[ Taleb's book ]