“It’s not competency if you don’t know the edge of it” – Charlie Munger
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance” – Confucius
Related:
- 2-1a4 ‘Language instinct’ - Language can’t exhaust mind
- 2-1b3a ‘Circle of competence’ & ‘Niches’ - Build a moat. Thrive in where you can.
- 3-1a4b1.2 Define and stay within your circle of competence
- 3-1a4b1.3 Your circle of competence can be widened, deepened, made clearer
- 3-1c3c2a Any ideas have the potential to be MORE universal (if not universal), and constraints are to be removed sooner or later because knowledge is irreversible
- 5-1b1a2c0.1 Perfect replication is impossible
- 7-1a2a1.1 ‘Scale’ - Anything that scaled started small, at the edge, at the frontier, as an avant-garde
- 7-1a6b Successful founders apply new technology to solve problems at edge cases
- 7-1d1c You can be at the edge of the newest technology
- 10-1a1b 行き詰らないとアブダクションできない
- When you know your edge, you can recognize where you need others