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Via negativa: the principle that we know what is wrong with more clarity than what is right, and that knowledge grows by subtraction. Also, it is easier to know that something is wrong than to find the fix. Actions that remove are more robust than those that add because addition may have unseen, complicated feedback loops. This is discussed in some depth in Antifragile.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
So he did something genius.
He found a restaurant in Greenwich Village that had a basement and made a pitch to the owner:
Let me start a comedy club in your basement. I’ll keep the cover charge, you keep the food and drink sales.
The owner said yes. 
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Good design is
long-lasting
It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years — even in today’s throwaway society.
‘Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design’ by Shuffle | Readymag
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