Showing posts with label Donald Rumsfeld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Rumsfeld. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Black swans as unknown unknowns in the matrix

After designing the Johari window, a business in matrixing evolves…
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Joe: We’re on to something with these matrix ideas. Remember Eisenhower asked us to fix him up with one for prioritization?
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Harry: And Rumsfeld just called. He wants to clarify combinations between known and unknown variables.
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Joe: Easy. Known-knowns like increases in world population. Known-unknowns like the earthquakes. Unknown-knowns like revolutions. And Unknown-unknowns.

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Harry: How can you know what unknown-unknowns are?
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Joe: They’re the black swans coming out of nowhere. The good like the internet. The bad like 9/11.
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Voice-over

Prime matrices: four, nine, sixteen boxes and so on. But the neatest and easiest to grasp are the fours.
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