Margin of Safety: what this star will be

Margin of Safety is a star on the Constellate sky: placed by meaning, named, and connected to the stars around it. This is the short form of its post: the line it carries, the area we colour Strategy, and what stands beside it today.

The line it carries on the sky: Leave enough room for error that being wrong is survivable.

What stands beside it

The stars nearest to it are Epistemic Humility, Inversion, Leverage and Optionality, and Epistemic Humility and Inversion are already open to walk. When Margin of Safety opens, the conversation will land it among them, with a line drawn to each idea it touches.

Ask for this star

Every star is lit by demand. Ask for Margin of Safety and it moves up the list; when it opens, this post becomes the full essay. The open stars beside it can be walked today, and the first concept of every course is free.