Thanks for reading The Sunday Morning Post. Subscribe below to get my free weekly articles. In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the term “Black Swan” to describe events that are so implausible that financial modeling and other types of predictive analysis cannot even account for the possibility of their occurring. This leaves governments, businesses, and indeed entire economies susceptible to these most rarest of events, which frequently shift paradigms and destroy old ways of thinking, but often with painful consequences during the intervening period.
Ben, I completely agree with your take on us as a species and the challenges we face concerning the need to actually take actions for our collective well being. Unfortunately, I think we're better at reading Dune than we are actually enacting those measures.
Ben, I completely agree with your take on us as a species and the challenges we face concerning the need to actually take actions for our collective well being. Unfortunately, I think we're better at reading Dune than we are actually enacting those measures.
Nice piece, Ben.