1/ Failure as having experience with what does not work (or the acquisition of negative knowledge).
"[...] negative knowledge (what is wrong, what does not work) is more robust to error than positive knowledge (what is right, what works)." – @nntaleb, Antifragile
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2/ "Knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition—given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right." –
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3/ "Let us say that, in general, failure (and disconfirmation) are more informative than success and confirmation, which is why I claim that negative knowledge is just “more robust.” –
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4/ Via negativa, one of the central tenets (among many) in Antifragile, was summarized nicely in the advice my friend @cognitivelmnt gave me: "Focus on avoiding what will continue to not work."
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I find Nassim's concept of negative knowledge most intriguing. It reminds me of the Japanese and Korean term mu (negative), meaning "not have; without" and ma (negative space), translated as "the space between two structural parts."
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"Ma is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision."
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Tao Te Ching: §11 On Negative Spacehttps://medium.com/tao-te-ching/on-negative-space-3a6991f1af76 …
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Tattoo on my left hand (right brain)https://twitter.com/mistermircea/status/963804895051689984 …
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