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... I write a weekly column (or whatever) with various enclosures for friends each week ... I call it "krap-from-Ken" ... here is a late addition to it today.

I just finished reading Peter Bernstein’s “Against the Gods, the Remarkable Story of Risk”

This is an interesting story about trying to define risk … I love it.

A group of hikers in the wilderness came upon a bridge that would greatly shorten their return to their home base. Noting that the bridge was high, narrow and rickety, they fitted themselves out with ropes, harnesses and other safeguards before starting across. When they reached the other side, they found a hungry mountain lion patiently awaiting their arrival.