Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Complex systems strive on the edge of chaos. The more randomness you're exposed to, the stronger you get. Systems (people, ideas, institutions, states..) that become too comfortable in their patterns, that have too many safety nets to ever learn from failures, that are too over-optimized and lack redundancies, will fail in the event of unexpected emergencies. It's the cruel lesson of survival of the fittest, of nature always being one strike ahead of us.

That's what I'd see at the basis of this book. Taleb tells it with his arrogance, and probably too many words and sample applications. What sticks with me is the question, if we'll be able to get ahead of nature at some point.