I just acquired “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jacobsen. I’m not looking forward to nuclear war, and it’s my hope that our world never experiences that fate. I became interested in the book because I am interested in risk.
How do we define risk? How do we manage risk? How do we game out potential scenarios? What history did we use as the basis for our models? Similar questions to the ones I asked yesterday.
Some of the best ways for learning a new way of thinking are to study people who obsess about a thing and write about their obsession. You can learn a lot more about the music industry reading works by people who obsess about music. You’ll learn a lot more about business by reading biographies and autobiographies of people who obsess about a business/industry than a general business book. And I’ll learn more about risk management from someone who obsesses about a horrible scenario and writes about it than from a book on risk.