Anti-Fragile

From earlier notes:

  • Stalin couldn’t have happened in a municipality. Small makes people connections, large makes them abstract numbers. Antifrabgile and Adam Smith
  • Centralization leads to lobbying and large scale mistakes
  • Planning: world is too unpredictable. About plans that help you prepare for uncertainty rather than plans that keep you in a predicted path
  • Principle of subsidiarity. A matter should be handled by the smallest possible unit that can handle things effectively
  • Governments most need to enforce contracts
  • Empires allowed city-state to maintain more control. Nation state relies on Central bureaucracy
  • In Nordic countries, the large state is mostly a tax collector, the money is spent in localities
  • [[Antifragility & Robustness]]
  • [[Preserving Optionality]]
  • [[Adaptive systems]]