10-1a History is all the data we have so far

“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime. Everything comes in circles…The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.” – Sherlock Holmes

Next:

• 10-1a1 歴史 = 編集 = 関係の発見
• 10-1b Culture is set of ideas which affect behavior including unconscious ones like skills, expectations, and emotional preferences.

Related:

• 4-1a4b2b1 ‘One-of-those’ over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your ‘own’ experience)

• 3-1c1d2a If the news is fake, imagine history

  • 1-2b1 Power cares about its past because the former is derived from the latter
    • 7-1a4b Understanding the measurement-constraints amounts to understanding the system-incentives. That is, creating explanations.
      • 2-1a6a Understanding incentives amounts to understanding its culture
        • 8-1c4d1a1 The culture (or ‘gestalt’) dictates what’s been written as well as what’s not been written
          • 1-1a7 Epistemology is the way with which we go about our detective work; other sciences are application of such detective lens

• 10-2f3b Reading is about extracting the meaning from the words, and not about extracting words from the page

  • 3-1c2e 情報は関係性の中にある - Meaning is often in relation to other things