What can Jerry Seinfeld teach us about leading high risk operations? Great piece by @bpoppenheimer that discusses fields of precision and fields of uncertainty. Most people think they work in a field of precision, where correct answers can be predicted ahead of time, and you can feel confident about your work before you do it. But those fields of work are very limited. I know I certainly don't work in one. I don't control all of the variables, I have incomplete information, and I work under time pressure. There is no precision. My work (and I would say most work) is more like Jerry Seinfeld's - he never really knows what is going to land with an audience. He works in a filed of uncertainty. Every day he has to face at least a little bit of failure. And that's his secret. He doesn't wait for feeling of certainty before taking action. He embraces that discomfort of uncertainty. I really enjoyed this one. Good writing by Billy with some take aways for me.