I agree. Reading your comment made me think that it might be interesting — even if just as a small experiment — to map out which historical figures we feel struck the ~right balance between ambition and caution.
I don’t know if it would reveal much, but perhaps reading about a few such people could help me (and maybe others) better calibrate our own mix of drive and risk averseness. I find it easier to internalize these balances through real people and stories than through abstract arguments. And perhaps that kind of reflection could, in perhaps only a small way, help prevent future crises of judgment like FTX.
I agree. Reading your comment made me think that it might be interesting — even if just as a small experiment — to map out which historical figures we feel struck the ~right balance between ambition and caution.
I don’t know if it would reveal much, but perhaps reading about a few such people could help me (and maybe others) better calibrate our own mix of drive and risk averseness. I find it easier to internalize these balances through real people and stories than through abstract arguments. And perhaps that kind of reflection could, in perhaps only a small way, help prevent future crises of judgment like FTX.