Author here: nice comment. Absolutely the way to success isn't about avoiding all risk. As you point out, this is the way to mediocrity and tedium. Life (a

Author here: nice comment. Absolutely the way to success isn't about avoiding all risk. As you point out, this is the way to mediocrity and tedium. Life (and software) should be about taking risks - I've written a bunch of articles about this on the site[1] about how development is about making bets. [1] - https://riskfirst.org/Coding-Bets https://riskfirst.org/Coding-Bets