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Risk concepts and updates based on my recent reading, research, and conversations. Topics include:
- Risk frameworks
- Opportunity
- Mistakes
- Uncertainty
- Tolerance vs. perception
- Aversion vs. savvy
- Intuition
A few of the authors discussed:
- Todd Conklin
- Michele Wucker
- Nassim Taleb
- Adam Grant
- Daniel Kahneman
- Gerd Gigerenzer
We’ll discuss these topics in Start & End at Home, my wilderness risk management and trip planning course, which runs throughout February, annually.

all good points, I like the way you did that. The ‘safe to fail’ scenario makes good sense in a learning environment, youngsters probably more likely to try and fail, for adults it sucks.
Good point! There is value in doing a bunch of the failing when our bodies are faster to recover! I wonder what the ‘maintenance mode’ (older age) equivalent to safe-to-fail looks like.