“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history” "This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, th

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history” "This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ..." -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Just love his writing.) We cannot predict the future. Period. Stop trying. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can. Randomness (serendipity, change encounters, mixing of ideas, meeting new people, etc.) is the spice of life and often can lead to breakthroughs. Seek it out.