“Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person, and I can hardly expect your co-operation if I do not show you the position from which we start.” – Sherlock Holmes
Next:
- 2-1b2e1 Understanding comes from copying the information-knowledge as information-knowledge medium; not from copying the substrate
- 2-1b2f ‘Equivalence’ - Reality doesn’t care genealogy. Solving problems is what matters. How it’s done matters less.
- 2-1b2g ‘Margin of safety’ - Be redundant and resourceful
Related:
- First, you have to know your problems
- Writing helps
- Then, share them clearly
- But know that others will not understand them exhaustively
- On copy-pasting behaviors (inverted)—you can’t imitate your way to greatness because you can only copy the effect, not the cause
- 9-1b0 Knowledge (both explicit and inexplicit) is created individually. You don’t say “I took it from him.” You can’t blame “he took it from me.”
- 10-2g1f1 Natural selection can only operate on phenotypes (physical attributes) and not on genotypes (the knowledge bearing entity). The same (or similar) phenotypes doesn’t mean they share the same genotype.
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It’s an inversion of:
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- ORGANAZATIONAL
- “Do they know what you value most?” I hesitated. He looked me square in the eye. “Shane, do you know what you value most?” I stared at him blankly. He sighed. “The problem isn’t your team. It’s you. You don’t know what’s most important. Until you do, your team will never make decisions without you. It’s too risky for them to figure out the most important thing. Communicate that to your team, and they’ll be able to make decisions on their own.”
- INDIVIDUAL
- Remember: the goal isn’t to have someone tell you what to do; rather, it’s to learn how an expert thinks about the problem, which variables they consider relevant, and how those variables interact over time. If you ask them how they think about the problem, that’s when you start deepening your understanding.
- ORGANAZATIONAL
- It’s an equivalent of building a communication system, and it can be implemented on-chain with proper incentives
- 8-2b2 The most efficient business is one with trust, or one completely without
- No permission means no guessing on blockchains
- 8-2b2 The most efficient business is one with trust, or one completely without