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Options, any options, by allowing you more upside than downside, are vectors of antifragility-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb An earlier article in this serie

An earlier article in this series – How to Evaluate Benefits Delivered by an Energy Option – showed that a second step in a decision-making proces

'Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says, 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations.  – Dale Mortensen A

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes b

The minute you do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life. – R. Buckminster Fuller The preceding article in this series â

Optionality is the property of asymmetric upside (preferably unlimited) with correspondingly limited downside (preferably tiny). – Nassim Nicholas T

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. – Ra

Planning is about bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now. – Alan Lakein An earlier article in this series – Wha

Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill – and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable
