Topic
risk
- Weekend Reading: COVID Edition
⚗️ COVID and Forced Experiments Benedict Evans looks at what could return to normal after coronavirus, and what else might have accelerated change that was already happening. "Every time we get a new kind of tool, we…
- Weekend Reading: Tradeoffs, the Margins, and PR FAQs
⚖️ Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making Farnam Street: Time is our most fundamental constraint. If you use an hour for one thing, you can’t use it for anything else. Time passes, whatever we do with it. It seems…
- Accidental Harm
This piece resonated in the wake of the mess around California's AB5 "AB5") legislation, which puts limitations on classifying workers as independent contractors. The backlash to AB5 shows how it's a case study in uni…
- Antifragility and Tinkering in Biology (and in Business) Flexibility Provides an Efficient Epigenetic Way to Manage Risk
I found this piece cited in Taleb’s Antifragile, a unique case of an author citing a paper that was itself inspired by a galley of that book. The concept of “antifragility” (systems that gain or improve from disorder,…
- Every Great Investment Hurts
Morgan Housel on investing: Every great investment is born from decisions that were harder than they appear to an outsider. There are so few exceptions to this. Investors have a fascination with no-brainers, obvious d…