Law & Policy

Reading Taleb’s “Antifragile” hit differently as a lawyer.

Realizing we somethimes cause corporate iatrogenics — harm from trying to help.

Let me explain 🧵

Head of crypto practice at Buzko Krasnov law firm
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Law School Adjunct Lecturer

Here’s the pattern I see sometimes:

Startup launches → Legal finds 50 issues → Panic mode → All resources go to compliance → Startup dies

Meanwhile, their competitor who ignored legal is now a unicorn 🦄

This pattern is everywhere:
• Fed smoothing out cycles → bigger crashes
• Bailing out banks → zombie companies
• Overprotective parents → fragile kids

Systems need stress to grow stronger.

Iatrogenics = when the cure is worse than the disease

Classic example: Doctors removed millions of kids’ tonsils in the 1950s. Turns out those tonsils were actually protecting their immune systems.