10-2g1 Culture is an implicit theory for its members. It dictates what to look at and how they reason about the world.

“In the last analysis, we see only what we are ready to see, what we have been taught to see. We eliminate and ignore everything that is not a part of our prejudices.” – Jean-Martin Charcot

Next:

• 10-2g1.1 Experience to theory over theory to experience—the latter theory is harder to get it off because it shapes your experience
• 10-2g1a Science emerged from culture
• 10-2g2 Culture invents symbols, and the core of language is the symbol

Related:

• 1-1c6a1c The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

• 7-1a4b Understanding the measurement-constraints amounts to understanding the system-incentives. That is, creating explanations.

• 1-1c6a1a Pay attention to what can’t be said (e.g., taboos)

• 4-1d0 Look at the whole of conversations, including how things are being said as well as what’s not being said (e.g., taboos)

• 7-1a4a Growth in revenue and in user base are not the same thing.

• 5-2b4 Explanation (explicit or inexplicit) precedes both your options and choices

• 3-1d6 Constraints in the form of consistent style leave space for creativity and progress

• If you don’t have an explanation, usually the situation thinks for us:

  • AN3C - People don’t want better, they want less crap
  • 2-1a6c ‘Inertia’ - In most ordinary moments the situation thinks for us, and these seemingly insignificant decisions compound.
  • 8-1c4d1a2 People only pay attention to certain parts of music, art, building, product, photo etc.

Crazy connection:

• 3-1c3c6 Nerds have an advantage in doing great work because they expend little effort on seeming anything