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#5: Serendipity machines - by Thomas Hollands

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Serendipity machines harness uncapped upside; Covid-19 leaves you exposed to uncapped downside

Welcome readers old and new. This is one of Thomas Hollands’ notes in his search for ideas which are surprisingly general, or generally surprising. The first issue explains the project, and you can find all past issues here. In the online circles I move in, an idea has been doing the rounds. It goes a little something like this: "In life, there are many, many different ways to succeed, far too many to keep track of. But in any field, there are only a few ways to fail. I can easily keep track of the ways to fail, and make sure that I am not moving closer to failure. As long as I keep going…

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