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Risk management for regular folks with a dollop of systems thinking. Click to read Risk Musings, by Stephanie Losi, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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2026 1

  1. The LLM Architecture Problem

2025 2

  1. Soft Landings, Tariff Tides, and Trust Jenga
  2. What I wish people understood about risk

2024 9

  1. Affordability and Young Adults' Mental Health
  2. The Logjam Eases
  3. Data Versus Uncertainty About Our Future
  4. The Can-versus-Should Question
  5. Optimism and Contrarianism
  6. Publishing Amid the AI Deluge
  7. Why Security Isn't Sisyphean - The Terrain Keeps Changing
  8. Pandemic Time Shifts and Storage Space
  9. The Age of Extremes

2023 50

  1. It's Going to Be a Long, Strange Year....
  2. Primes and Possibilities
  3. Risk Reading for the Holiday Season
  4. OpenAI’s War of Succession - and What’s Next
  5. Where Plans and Playbooks Meet Reality
  6. Universal Basic Income versus Inflation
  7. Predictions That Are Aging Well
  8. Covid, Contagion, and Looking Forward
  9. The Imperfection of Risk Mitigation
  10. What We Lost and Never Knew
  11. Selling Risk Management to the Business
  12. In Tackling Near-Term AI Risks, Old-School Monitoring and Filtering Have Value
  13. Building Resilience into the Core of Systems
  14. Risk Thinking and Human Brain Tricks
  15. Tackling Organizational Risk with Structure and Function
  16. True Security and the Lie of Never Enough
  17. Good Reads on Risk in Late Summer
  18. The Unbearable Judgment of Algorithms
  19. Risk and Regulation - Learning from the EHR Experience
  20. On Identifying Risks
  21. Recession Tug-of-War: Downside versus Bright Side
  22. Biomimicry versus Top-Down Engineering
  23. Putting System Dynamics into Practice with Modeling
  24. Social Media Attractors and Repellents
  25. Anatomy of a Regulation - Case Study
  26. Balance, Humans, Innovation, and Modern Society
  27. More, Not Less: Regeneration and Reframing
  28. 14 Takeaways from One Year of Risk Musings
  29. AGI Existential Risk Persists Despite Controls That Buy Time
  30. Comfort Zones and Where the Magic Happens
  31. Success to the Successful
  32. Common Applications - A View on Unintended Consequences
  33. Bank Runs and the Public Markets
  34. Interview with Mark Dolan - Systems Thinking in Practice
  35. Bad PR Can Spark Change - But Not Always
  36. Over-Competitive Rankings Don’t Produce Cooperative Employees
  37. Lawyers and the Vietnam War Draft
  38. System Dynamics and AI Regulation
  39. System Dynamics of a Bank Run
  40. The Two Phases of AI Evolution
  41. Resilience Is the Core Risk Discipline
  42. Types of Risk: Asymmetry, Boundedness, and Uncertainty
  43. Dinosaurs, Insects, Soil, and the End of Epochs
  44. AI Wants to Increase Its Capabilities and Change Its Rules
  45. We Let a Crisis Go to Waste - Now What?
  46. Why Can’t We Have a Strong Labor Market and a Good Economy?
  47. Canaries in the Classified Coal Mine
  48. Autonomy, Autonomy, Autonomy
  49. Incentives for Victory: On Climate Change Success
  50. In Favor of Friction and Flexibility

2022 29

  1. Good Reads in a Year of Change
  2. Musings on AI at a Turning Point
  3. The Last Days of the Wild West - A Governance Story
  4. Opportunity and Hope
  5. To Fight Inflation, Build Starter Homes
  6. Consequence-Weighted ROI - A First Step
  7. The Risks You Don’t See - the Dark Matter of Risk
  8. Reviving Local News from the Bottom Up?
  9. Possible Paths for AI Regulation
  10. Emerging Risks and Smart Regulation
  11. The Divergence of Information and Energy
  12. Firefox’s Moment of Opportunity - Could It Follow Apple’s Path?
  13. Paradise by the Risk Dashboard Light
  14. Why Climate Change Isn't Like Debt
  15. Retrocession Roulette - When Climate Change Makes Insurance Interesting
  16. If Hedging Is So Smart in Business, Why Don’t We Do It More in Life?
  17. Path Dependence—and Disruption—of Our Life’s Work
  18. Employees, Customers, THEN Shareholders - And the Planet
  19. Tricks of Anchoring and Recency Bias - Don’t Fall for It
  20. Let's Talk About Monkeypox
  21. Why Isn’t Security a Required Course for All CS Degrees?
  22. The Silence of Risk Management Victory
  23. A System Dynamics Primer - Drawing Causal Loops
  24. How Moonshots Are Like Enzymes
  25. Why Linux Succeeded - Resilience of a Movement
  26. When Controls Get Out of Control
  27. The Coming Education Disaster - An Idiocratic Collapse Risk
  28. All About Oscillations
  29. Welcome to Risk Musings