Our ancestors celebrated a great festival in these days thousands of years ago. Months of darkness and hardship lay behind them. Mead, wine and brandy flowed in streams, there was feasting, laughter and dancing. The winter solstice was not only an astronomically significant event, but half of the hard time was over, the nights became […]
Black swans, they exist. Nicholas Nassim Taleb has coined this brilliant metaphor for catastrophes, the frequency of which we dramatically underestimate and which we do not see coming. And sometimes there are two of them. (As a good doctor once told me: “You can have the plague and cholera at the same time”). As difficult […]
Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts. Numbers are important, but when it comes to us humans, philosophy and psychology matter more than 0 and 1.