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You can see this with Fukushima — I noticed the Japanese culture penalizes you for making a mistake, so if I’m ashamed for losing money or making a small mistake, my incentive would be to go into strategies in which mistakes are rare, but big. Like they happen every ten years, but are large, rather than happening every day, but small. Because you’re ashamed of it. It really hurts your entrepreneurship not to make mistakes, so I like cultures that allow you to make small mistakes, not large ones. I am intolerant to large mistakes and favorable to small mistakes. And because a process of innovation goes from small mistake to small mistake. The British Industrial Revolution came from people who love to tinker and make mistakes. It’s called “bricolage” — you play, you play, you play; it’s a process of iterative, heuristic search and you discover something simply by making small mistakes and you learn from them.