The Audacity Economy

Day 192 – June 3, 2026

I have a theory. Confidence is distributed completely wrong. Absolutely wrong. Catastrophically wrong. Because some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, talented people I know spend half their lives second guessing themselves.

Meanwhile somewhere out there a man is confidently explaining a topic he learned about seventeen minutes ago. It’s incredible. Honestly, it should be studied.

Because I don’t think confidence and competence are nearly as related as people pretend. If they were, the world would look very different. The people who know the most would talk the loudest. The smartest people in the room would always be running it. And every family gathering would be significantly shorter.

Instead, reality seems determined to operate under a completely different system. The people who know the least often feel the most certain. The people who know the most tend to have questions. And the people doing the deepest thinking are usually the first to wonder if they’re wrong.

That fascinates me.

Because certainty has become weirdly fashionable. Everyone has a take. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone is somehow an expert. Nobody wants to say,”I don’t know.”

Which is unfortunate because “I don’t know” is one of the most intelligent phrases a person can say. It’s honest. It’s curious. It’s the beginning of learning. And honestly, I trust curiosity more than certainty almost every time.

Curious people listen. Certain people wait for their turn to talk. There’s a difference. A huge one.

Maybe that’s why I’ve always been drawn to people who ask good questions. Questions reveal more than answers ever do. Answers tell me what you think. Questions tell me how you think. That’s where the interesting stuff lives.

Roger, of course, operates entirely through questions. Can I eat that? Can I sniff that? Can I sit there? Can I somehow become physically closer to you despite already touching you? A philosopher. A scholar. A menace.

Chaos in one hand. Grace in the other.

And me, increasingly convinced that curiosity is smarter than certainty and significantly more attractive too.