“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain …
In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”
Richard P. FeynmanA theme running through my posts for a while now is the sense of disquiet that permeates our conversations. It sits beyond analysis and logic in the parts of us that are uniquely human. I feel it like an echo, or perhaps like the returning “ping” of a sonar signal sent into the unknown depths searching for what we cannot see.
It makes me wonder - is our discomfort with uncertainty a bug in our psychology, or a vital feature we've been educated to suppress?
We've built careers, organisations, and entire economic syst…
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