# To make new things you need to take risks This is a truism, but why is it actually true? It depends on the assumption that if something doesn’t exist, there is some chance that making it exist will fail and the risk is based on the consequences of that failure, ### Related * [[You need to break rules to create new paradigms]] * [[Knightian Uncertainty]] * [[Narratives are how we deal with uncertainty]] * [[Anyone on the knowledge frontier is a bit of a crackpot]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/To+make+new+things+you+need+to+take+risks) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/To+make+new+things+you+need+to+take+risks)