Not so long ago, received wisdom in the psychology of trading and investing in financial markets said that the key to success was consistency. Once you found your probabilistic “edge” in markets, you ...

The Wright Brothers knew they were going to crash, yet tried to fly anyway. Unlike their competitors, the former bicycle mechanics brought extra parts to the sand dunes to make onsite repairs and ...

The game of Go played between a DeepMind computer program and a human champion created an existential crisis of sorts for Marcus du Sautoy, a mathematician and professor at Oxford University. “I’ve ...