> so long as you accept that you are only slightly reducing the chaos and randomness Life is not chess, it's poker. Gently putting your thumb on the scales is

> so long as you accept that you are only slightly reducing the chaos and randomness Life is not chess, it's poker. Gently putting your thumb on the scales is the best we can do. Certainty is an illusion, only probabilities are real. So what you do isn't "Plan the next 10 years", it's "Make $goodOutcome a little more likely than $badOutcome", then adjust in real-time as the situation changes.