Mirko's Mill

  I hereby propose a poem written by a participant to our R+ meeting, to pay a tribute to our wonderful week together, so dense in experiences and learning. For a tribute in prose by Yours, you can look here , whereas an analytical account of the meeting can be found here . The poem is totally unedited and, so, comes across as extremely genuine . Enjoy ! Forget what you know about the world it is more than green and blue, I’ve seen the view, From the moon. It started when I climbed aboard a giant’s chest And then onto his shoulders I saw the world stretch out before me My eyes as wide as my heart could grow Alas, In time I grew discontent and the horizon caught my eye I wondered what lay beyond And noticed the wise man’s arm ascend He curled His hand into a fist And extended a finger to make a point I crouched along his arm and hand And placed my head down low I looked to where the pointer pointed And then the moon presented a glowing mirror show With my eyes asquint I saw some things

I hereby copy and paste a tribute in prose that I jotted down on a whim during my last night at Tenute Al Bano, in mid-October, where one of the most inspiring meetings I have attended during all my life took place. I have had the privilege to meet there some of the most inspiring and interesting people I have ever found stacked in one single place during my whole life. What I have written won't be immediately clear to neither people who have not taken part in the meeting, because I am using the style of the consciousness flow, where I am the reader/listener of myself, nor to those who have not been following attentively the happenings of the Ukrainian conflict, which I have been looking at for months and which unceasingly have me appalled, not so much because of the conflict in itself, rather because of the stance that we, as Europeans, are taking. In the event that some reader were interested in better understanding me, a less introspective description of the meeting was provid

This happens to be my first post on this blog and also a very special one for me.  A tribute in prose to the experience I recount in detail here and which I had last October was penned on a whim at night and published elsewhere . Finally, a beautiful tribute in verses was written by Justin Bold (another participant, bowed head in the picture below) and is available here . From October 10th through October 16th, a group of entrepreneurs, consultants, software engineers, computer scientists, crypto experts, designers and architects, brought together by their interest in risk, have gathered at Tenute Al Bano, in Cellino San Marco, to follow a series of talks about multiple topics.  The beginning My interest in risk and extreme events dates back to 2014, when I first came into contact, a short while after emigrating to Poland to pursue a scientific career in physics, with Nassim Taleb's books on uncertainty and risk management. Beside being an accomplished former trader, Nassim comes