Oh, Wow. Pure Gold.

Here's a document recommended by commenter Black Six, in the comments section of this post.

It's pure gold.  Read it, identify the gold contained within, and mine that gold.  Apply it.

Taleb expresses perfectly what I think, and the document introduces to me some new ideas.  His book, The Black Swan, heavily influenced my thinking and worldview, ever since I first read it. 

Here's an audio interview also recommended by Black Six.  I have not yet listened to it, but it'll be good, I believe.

We don't know everything; we can't predict everything.  To think we can is both arrogant and ignorant.  All we can do is work towards resilience, as John Robb calls it.  Away from fragility, as Taleb might say.

Unfortunately, our nation is hurtling away from resilience and towards fragility as fast as it possibly can move.

Right into the gaping maw of the next Black Swan.  I bet you never knew swan had teeth (or maws, for that matter), did you?

Resist.