Tag: uncertainty
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The Challenge of Uncertainty
Simplicity = Low uncertainty Take a simple system like a light switch, there are not really a lot of possibilities for something unexpected to happen. In one configuration of the switch the light is on, and the other one the light is off. The only thing that could possibly happen is that in both configurations…
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Taking risks to advance your cause
“Seven Years in Tibet” – which I thought was going to be an account of one man’s friendship with the Dalai Lama – actually begins with the lengthy tale (65 chapters!) of Heinrich Harrer trying to escape war imprisonment in India and trekking through Tibet. Only one purpose – to be free – guided his…