Things People Keep To Themselves

Accumulate Risk

Are Safe Until They Aren't

Become Lighter Over Time

Become Someone’s Job

Challenge Identity

Conceal

Consume Leverage

Create Disorientation

Create Doubt

Create Drag

Create Fragility

Create Friction

Create Illegibility

Create Impermanence

Create Instability

Create Obscurity

Create Resistance

Decrease Resolution

Fall Apart On Their Own

Have No Bottom

Increase Friction

Invite Departure

Invite Suspicion

Kill Momentum

Make A Day Feel Longer

Make Complexity Dangerous

Make Coordination Difficult

Make Knowledge Fragile

Make The Future Invisible

Occupy Attention

Quietly Create Effort

Quietly Decrease Value

Quietly Destroy Opportunity

Quietly Generate Poverty

Quietly Measure Character

Quietly Punish

Quietly Shape Decisions

Quietly Waste Time

Reduce Optionality

Repel

Resist Attachment

Resist Interpretation

Settle

Slow Trust

uncertainty

light

observation

physics

probability

is, in the law, not an unfortunate accident: It is of immense social value.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. Sonia Sotomayor

is a kind of quiet liberation that prepares us for new ways of being ourselves, living in the world, and making a difference in the lives of others.

Quite the opposite, as the stories in this book illustrate: seeing the world as dangerous and uncertain may lead to a kind of quiet liberation, preparing us for new ways of being ourselves, living in the world, and making a difference in the lives of others. (Kleinman 2006 : 9)

is an important feeling. The more uncertain one feels about oneself, the more there grows up in one a feeling of kinship with all things.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. Carl Jung

is ironic in that the more unpredictable the world becomes, the more we rely on predictions.

The more unpredictable the world becomes, the more we rely on predictions.

's source lies in the intentions of others.

the true source of uncertainty lies in the intentions of others (Bernstein 1996: 232).

is the very condition that impels man to unfold his powers.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. (Erich Fromm)

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde

is understood as a precondition for mutual-understanding negotiations are an attempt to increase uncertainty to the point that the only option that remains is understanding one another.

What can always be assumed, in all attempts to be understood, is the uncertainty of the other side. . . .Negotiations can then be defined as an attempt to increase uncertainty to the point that the only option that remains is understanding one another' (70 Luhmann Observations on Modernity)

uncertainty, n.All

uncertainty