Thank You, Errors

InAntifragile,Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swanand one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.

The random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information

If every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution–so every attempt becomes more valuable, more like an expense than an error. And of course...