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Someone who treats uncertainty as a feature, not a bug.
means A person who seeks out risk, novelty, or the unknown — whether on a mountainside or in a business deal — often for the thrill as much as the outcome.
from From French aventurer, rooted in Latin adventura, 'a thing about to happen' — from advenire, 'to arrive.' The word originally carried the simple sense of fortune or chance, something coming toward you, before it hardened into a label for the person bold (or reckless) enough to go chasing that chance themselves.
- etymology
- from latin adventurus, that which is about to happen
- risk math
- optimizes for story value, not survival odds
- job hazard
- insurance forms have no checkbox for them
- secret truth
- often just chronic boredom with better branding