

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Simone Stolzoff: How to Not Know
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: How can one be comfortable with ambiguity and the unknown?
Join us to hear Stolzoff’s answers.About this EventFamously or infamously, in 2002 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that “[A]s we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.”That comment stoked a lot of mockery among his critics, but he was addressing something that all people feel. It is difficult to deal with uncertainty at times when our lives have never felt less certain in a world of increasing change.Now journalist and former IDEO design lead Simone Stolzoff comes to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to discuss his guide to navigating uncertainty, spelled out in his new book How to Not Know. From politics to our careers to our personal lives, we don’t know what the future holds. Yet, Stolzoff says, our capacity to tolerate this uncertainty is declining.Stoloff shares stories of people who have grappled with big problems with no easy answers—such as an economist trying to predict the next market crash, or an island nation facing the existential impact of climate change. How can one be comfortable with ambiguity and the unknown?Join us to hear Stolzoff’s answers.NotesStolzoff photo by Nico Zurcher; courtesy the speaker.Commonwealth Club World Affairs is a public forum. Any views expressed in our programs are those of the speakers and not of Commonwealth Club World Affairs.All ticket sales are final and nonrefundable.SPEAKERSSimone Stolzoff, Journalist; Author, How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands AnswersIn Conversation with Liz Moody, Podcast Host; Author5:30 p.m. doors open &amp; check-in6–7 p.m. program7 p.m. book signing(all times Pacific Time)
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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 27.33, max: 27.33, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: San Francisco
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Commonwealth Club
- **lat**: 37.7933452
- **long**: -122.3925028
- **full address**: The Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, United States

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- **organizer**: Inforum at the Commonwealth Club (https://allevents.in/org/inforum-at-the-commonwealth-club/22552236)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Inforum at the Commonwealth Club
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, business
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