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AntifragilityTemplate
Single Point of Failure Audit
Find the components whose failure would bring everything down.
20–30 minutes
The system you're auditing
Could be a business, a workflow, a personal life setup.
List the major components
People, tools, suppliers, accounts, dependencies.
For each: «what if this fails completely?»
Anything answered «we're done» is a SPOF.
Which SPOFs to address now
Redundancy, replacement plan, or shutdown plan - pick one per SPOF.
Output
A list of SPOFs with one chosen mitigation each.
Related concepts
Single point of failureA component whose failure brings down the whole system. The classic structural fragility. Almost always cheaper to remove than to defend.AntifragilityNot the opposite of fragile. Beyond robust. Antifragile systems benefit from stress, variation, error, and time.Via negativaImprove by subtracting harm - not by adding clever fixes. Removing bad inputs is more reliable than adding good ones.RuinThe class of outcomes from which you cannot recover. Ruin doesn't average out, doesn't get reversed by a winning streak, and ends the game.
Read the original book
This part of the knowledge base is inspired by the book. Go to the Ukrainian edition to explore the concept in depth.