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I've always attributed "known knowns" and "unknown knowns" etc to Nassim Taleb, not Rumsfeld.
by fixxer 12y ago
I've always attributed "known knowns" and "unknown knowns" etc to Nassim Taleb, not Rumsfeld.
- MrZongle2 12y agoYes, but how else could the author get a political dig into the article? A lazy writing blemish on an otherwise good article.
- gfodor 12y agoNot really, first hit on Google for "unknown unknowns" is this wikipedia article which immediately mentions Rumsfeld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
- kokey 12y agoI got it from politics and Rumsfeld, long before I read Taleb. That said, Taleb certainly influenced, or entrenched, my approach to technology decisions. People often look at the known improvements a new technology makes over the known problems of an established solution, being ignorant of the unknown problems that could arise and be of a rather serious nature.