Taylor Pearson wrote a great article on the limits and dangers of rationalizing complex phenomena, and the opportunities of illegible ‘fat tail’ margins.

Some other gold nuggets in the article:

• The joy of reading (and logic of preferring) old books.
• Follow fingerspitzelgefühl – grandmother’s wisdom, Nassim Taleb, would say instead of modernist rationalizations.
• A tinkering budget (low downside, high upside) for the things we are exploring that are hard to see.