Historic events = chaos = surprises = contingencies = abductions
Throwing randomness here and there can counter a dangerous combination of:
- 2-1a1a6 ‘Tendency to overgeneralize from small samples’
- 2-1a6c1 ‘Tendency to minimize energy output’ - Align your incentives properly, then (almost) everything will follow
- 2-1a6c1a ‘First-conclusion bias’ - Separate the problem-defining phase of the decision-making process from the problem-solving phase
You can learn from anyone and anything, if you know how.
Put differently:
- 3-1b2 Use the Fun Criterion to filter what problems to work on
- 5-1b4c2a When you have an agency, you don’t get depleted. We aren’t powered by a battery.
Related:
- 2-1a5 ‘Sampling’ - Increase your sample size with QUALITY data
- Hideo Kojima frequent physical bookstores to get the whole package
- 9-2b1.2 Marshall McLuhan - ‘It is the medium itself that is the message, not the content’
- I think 安田隆夫 understood this well and implemented 圧縮陳列 (and POP 洪水) at ドンキrevisit