Planned Empty

Antifragility: systems that gain from disorder. Taleb taught us this.

But empty space feels wasteful. It isn't. It's your capacity to respond.

Systems don't fail linearly. They snap.

Like Taleb's turkey, fed daily until Thanksgiving, teams can appear stable until they suddenly break.

Every team has a breaking point. The antifragility threshold. Below it, stress strengthens. Above it, stress destroys.

You can measure this line. Most don't.

This headroom creates:

• Learning: Room to turn chaos into knowledge
• Innovation: Freedom to experiment safely
• Protection: Shield against crisis cascade

Like Taleb's barbell strategy, teams need both stability and room for volatility. Without this balance, they become fragile.

This connects to The Speed of Being Wrong - slack lets you recover quickly from mistakes.

Measure planned versus reactive work. Find your breaking point. The Momentum Engine shows how to build in slack.