Framework
Mental Models

Antifragility

Some things gain from disorder

Best for
designing systems that gain from disorder
Time
1–2 hr
Difficulty
Advanced
Example

Designing a team that gets stronger when things break

Fragile setup
  • One person owns the entire deploy pipeline
  • No incident reviews; outages forgotten
  • All projects depend on one shared codebase
Antifragile setup
  • Two engineers can ship anywhere; rotate pager
  • Every outage produces a written learning
  • Loose coupling lets parts fail without taking the whole down

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