For now I walk to work and back, incorporating time daily to #flaneur and reflect. Pondering my choice to leave country living for the city and @nntaleb points on assymetric payouts

Moving to a city for me reflected opportunities for assymetric payouts compared to my rural experiences. Meeting new people, new places, anything is possible while the nature of a city in general applies a series of low downside. Bad meal? Bad people? Generally, low downside.

The #Coronavirusnyc has me thinking about this more. I still believe @nntaleb intuition that cities still represent a positive assymetric payout, but it does have me pondering if the risk of ruin presented by the virus creates a different risk profile.

Has city living evolved to become more concave than convex in the face of epidemics? It probably still remains to a point and I wouldn’t change my choices to live in cities, but this exposes the fragility of city living. Black swans are a funny thing, I guess.

Perhaps the answer is to consider how to be more #antifragile in an urban environment to avoid risk of ruin. @normonics may be the ultimate antifragile, while current duty requires some degree of exposure.