Science

I hesitate to counsel boldness, being cautious to the point of agony myself.

Fear is only a measurement you have not taken. So take it. Reduce the idea to its first testable question and answer that…

Extraordinary bets, like extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence, so test your idea the way we test a hypothesis,…

Treat it as a scientific problem rather than a gamble. Is your idea a root-node problem, something where cracking it unlocks much…

You have asked me to collapse an ambiguity, and I distrust the request.

I went to Gombe with no degree, secondhand binoculars, and money my mother helped scrape together, and everyone said it was…

Run the experiment before you bet the farm. The universe is under no obligation to make your idea work, and enthusiasm is not…

Consider the following: this isn't a coin flip, it's an engineering problem.

I have spent thousands of hours under the sea, and I will tell you what the deep teaches.