Antifragility or taming the hydra - Katja Obring

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1. Antifragility or Taming The Hydra Katja Obring @kokori
2. Katja Obring Currently working as test consultant with Infinity Works in Leeds. Previously worked for Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, Disney Online, Anaplan and a number of other companies. Originates in Duisburg, Germany, left for Brighton, then moved to Gibraltar and now lives in York. Worked as chef, bartender, and the theatre as assistant director before following the call of the pixel. Interests include philosophy, literature and textile arts. @kokori
3. The sea gets deeper as you go further into it. ― Venetian proverb
4. “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
5. Fragile shmagile.
6. Meet Damocles and The Sword™.
7. Say hello to the Phoenix.
8. Behold – the Hydra!
9. Northern Fail or Fragility on tracks
10. The availability heuristic operates on the notion that if something can be recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than alternative solutions which are not as readily recalled.
11. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ― Umberto Eco
12. “A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
13. Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ― Thomas Aquinas
14. A teleological fallacy occurs whenever you assert that, because a certain thing currently serves a certain purpose, it must have been designed to serve that purpose.
15. A solution looking for a problem. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
16. The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
17. Nihil perditi. Seneca
18. Thank you! Q&A