2 docs tagged with "resilience"

Antifragility is the mental model that describes systems which actually improve when exposed to stressors, randomness, and disorder. Unlike resilience (which merely resists shocks) or robustness (which stays the same), antifragility thrives on volatility. Understanding what is antifragility and how to use antifragility helps founders, investors, and knowledge workers design strategies that get stronger under pressure rather than breaking.

Resilience Thinking is a framework for designing and managing systems that can absorb disruption, adapt, and recover — rather than systems that are optimized purely for efficiency. Developed primarily in ecology (C.S. Holling, 1973) and extended to organizations and infrastructure, it argues that efficiency and resilience are in fundamental tension, and that over-optimization for efficiency systematically reduces a system's ability to handle shocks.