Struck me that we don’t sufficiently distinguish between 2 kinds of risks: 1. Risk of failure 2. Risk of victory that is only revealed to be pyrrhic in hindsight when true costs are revealed Most of the risk for reasonably talented and competent people is type 2.
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Big life level-ups: graduations, marriages, parenthood, home ownership, boat ownership all seem to be of this type. You’ll either love or hate the growth delta based on whether prize-price is revealed in retrospect to be negative or positive, once it’s in your bones.
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This is Life's Little Instruction Book for the tech set. Fully optimized for their tin ears.
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