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The New YOLO

On living under radical uncertainty without flinching.

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The world has gotten stranger faster than our frameworks for understanding it. Call it radical uncertainty, the new normal, or the permanent whitewater — the names change, the terrain does not. What’s asked of us now is not better prediction. It’s a different relationship with not-knowing.

The old YOLO

The original YOLO was a shrug. You only live once, so why not. It was permission to take the swing, buy the ticket, say the thing. It worked because it existed against a stable background: a world where tomorrow was broadly the shape of today.

That background is gone.

What remains

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This piece first appeared on LinkedIn.