In other words, other life-forms can never think of Black Swan events.
This also explains what constitutes the brand (e.g., see Warren Buffett).
Next:
- 2-1a6b1 Animals can extrapolate—but can never realize its contingencies.
- 2-1a6c ‘Inertia’ - In most ordinary moments the situation thinks for us, and these seemingly insignificant decisions compound.
Related:
- 2-1a1a3 ‘Availability heuristic’ - We easily recall what is salient, important, frequent, and recent
- 2-1a1a7 ‘Hindsight bias’ - Keep a record of your thoughts at the time you make the decision
- 2-1b2f ‘Equivalence’ - Reality doesn’t care genealogy. Solving problems is what matters. How it’s done matters less.
- 3-1d4b Your tools-frameworks-systems must be error-correctable (i.e., digital)
- 3-1d4c Humans can correct its own errors because we use symbols
- 4-1a4b2a Silence can decontextualize-displace the negotiator from the negotiation
- 4-1a4b2b Being reactive is like being analog in the heat of the moment
- 4-1a4b6b When ideas are exposed to various contexts (i.e., different people-place-time) they often find unexpected match. Ideas have timing.
- 5-1b2.3 Don’t be the turkey—the Black Swan might be a Grey Swan depending on your perspective
- 10-2g2c Indexes are physical because they merely ‘indicate’ and hence do not require culture. Symbols are cultural. Put differently, indexes are analog and symbols digital.
- 10-2g2e9a The contingent relation between the form and the abstract can be only realized by digital systems. Analog systems cannot do this.