Antifragile

In their book The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt address three untruths that seem to be gaining acceptance around the world. They describe one of those untruths as

Science news

In general, news organizations are not great sources of knowledge. News is too focused on the negative and the right now. Knowledge requires context and a more balanced look at events that often

Subtle rephrasing

In one of my pattern books, I have a pattern called “Knowledge as Hypothesis”. I’ve always liked the problem statement in that pattern; so much so that I designed a kind of