Risk assessments often fail to take into account long-term consequences of monumental crises, whether predictable or not, and the costs of that failure are mounting. Several such oversights or misunderstandings include: Poor Point of View, the failure of leaders to accurately assess the level of risk from a novel coronavirus; Head in the Sand, the indifference to or denial of the risks of climate change; Blinded by the Light, Part I, the lack of a critical eye and a failure to see the risks of“speed/pace” or a “first to market” approach in the issuance of new software; Blinded by the Light, Part II, the indifference to the growing risks associated with digital technology in the area of military weaponry; and Wrong Door, Wrong Target, the mistaken focus on foreign terrorism, causing authorities to miss increases in domestic terrorism.