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 {{Quote|If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
 :—John Paul Getty (''attrib.'')}}
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+{{d|Metis|/ˈmiːtɪs/|n|}}
-This is hard to describe — folk wisdom, knowhow, Odyssean cunning — but in the corporate world it struck me as most resembling expertise. Ingenuity, problem-solving, lateral thinking; smarts for figuring out what to do on the fly if you are in a jam.
+A coinage from {{author|James C. Scott}}’s magnificent {{br|Seeing Like A State}}, metis is hard to describe — the Greek word “Μῆτις” combined folk wisdom, knowhow, Odyssean cunning — but in the corporate world it most resembles ''[[subject matter expertise]]''. Ingenuity, problem-solving, lateral thinking; smarts for figuring out what to do on the fly if you are in a jam.
-The Greek word “Μῆτις” combined wisdom and cunning as embodied by the hero Odysseus. Classical Athenians regarded metis as one of the notable characteristics of the Athenian character.
+Μῆτις was also one of the sea-nymphs, who became some kind of deity associated with wisdom, deep thought, and magical cunning. Which is nice.
-Μῆτις was also one of the sea-nymphs, who became some kind of deity associated with wisdom, deep thought, and magical cunning.
+ picked up in the early exchanges of {{author|Allen Farrington}}’s {{br|Bitcoin Is Venice}} is that of the difference of “[[metis]]” — knowhow, experience, wisdom, accumulated ''[[heurism]]'' — what we call ''[[subject matter expertise]]'', and which stands in distinction to — in forlorn ''defiance'' of — [[high modernism]] which solves everything at scale, by abstract model referencing the homogenised general and not the intricate particular.
-An observation from {{author|James C. Scott}}’s {{br|Seeing Like A State}}, picked up in the early exchanges of {{author|Allen Farrington}}’s {{br|Bitcoin Is Venice}} is that of the difference of “[[metis]]” — knowhow, experience, wisdom, accumulated ''[[heurism]]'' — what we call ''[[subject matter expertise]]'', and which stands in distinction to — in forlorn ''defiance'' of — [[high modernism]] which solves everything at scale, by abstract model referencing the homogenised general and not the intricate particular.
 The difference between the top-down [[averagarianism|averagarian]] view and the [[subject matter expert]]’s view. The administrator knows that the portfolio risk is, say 5 percent and succeeds it she can “manage the portfolio” to suffer a risk of less than 5 percent — which she may do by ''changing'' the portfolio to remove what she sees as the high-risk instruments — whereas an individual risk manager manages a single instrument with a given risk of 5 percent and succeeds if she can avoid that risk altogether. For the individual risk manager, there is no 5 percent loss. The loss is either nil or 100%.