in the Antifragile passage that I quote here, @nntaleb made an egregious omission: the wife fragilista.

There is the medical fragilista who overintervenes in denying the body’s natural ability to heal and gives you medications with potentially very severe side effects; the policy fragilista (the interventionist social planner) who mistakes the economy for a washing machine that continuously needs fixing (by him) and blows it up; the psychiatric fragilista who medicates children to “improve” their intellectual and emotional life; the soccer-mom fragilista; the financial fragilista who makes people use “risk” models that destroy the banking system (then uses them again); the military fragilista who disturbs complex systems; the predictor fragilista who encourages you to take more risks; and many more

A lifetime runner, my wife, realizes just now, in June of 2025, that she can put on the airpods and listen to podcasts during her daily runs.

My (unconsulted) opinion: a mistake on several fronts.

She starts listening to podcasts about marriage or relationships or those best-of-intentions virtuous-sounding programs.

Now, every day and every night, she talks to me about "ideas" to "improve" our relationship. When I say that there is nothing to improve upon, she draws the word "optimize" instead.

I suspect that these podcasts "experts" got an MBA degree or something related to it. They have a nerd approach to all of this and are going to iatrogenize my already peaceful life.