unknown, unknowns

By admin at 10 November, 2008, 9:58 pm

I’m currently reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [pls link to  ] . Its a fascinating book that discusses why the improbable seems to happen a lot more than people expect. There was a section in the book that talked about the military and how they talk about “Known, Unknowns” and [...]

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So What?

By brendan at 5 July, 2008, 4:14 pm

So I am laying in a ditch, in the rain, its two o’clock in the morning, I haven’t actually been to sleep yet and haven’t washed in a couple of days, there are  practice mortar rounds being dropped around us, and someone’s yelling in my ear “SO WHAT?”  I am miserable.  The question is a [...]

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