Category: Savoir vivre

  • An Anti-Fragile Life Demands Setbacks

    An Anti-Fragile Life Demands Setbacks

    The great wildfires of 1988 in Yellowstone National Park destroyed over one third of the park after it had been long overdue for a large fire. As a result of the lessons learned, fire management has changed dramatically since then: Natural fires are usually only monitored since they are considered helpful in reducing dead underwood…

  • A Story About the Humble Gardener

    A Story About the Humble Gardener

    Confucius reportedly said that true wisdom is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. In negative terms, a lack of wisdom exists where people consider themselves all-knowing experts, or as Hayek famously put it in his Nobel Prize speech in 1974: «The Pretence of Knowledge». He concluded his lecture with a warning: «If man is…