“One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.” – Sherlock Holmes
“Our divisions into sciences are not a part of nature…in nature there is really neither chemistry nor physics, nor zoology, nor physiology, nor pathology; there are only bodies to be classified or phenomena to be known and mastered.” – Claude Bernard
Next:
- 3-1a0 Use categories, but don’t be categorized
- 3-1a1 It’s either you are solving problems or not
- 3-1b Be flexible with the problem itself, because you may not know what’s the real problem yet
Related:
- Learn, and be good at, many things
- 3-1a3 Multidisciplinary thinking is the most realistic thinking
- 5-1b1b1 Become good at multiple things rather than being super good at one specific thing (the former is both easier and effective)
- 8-1c4d5c Don’t be constrained by the definition of ‘apps’, ‘platforms’, and ‘people’ — because they are arbitrary (e.g., platform can be build on top of platform, apps when combined can turn into platform, etc)
- 8-1c5 Look for Lollapalooza, or system equivalent of critical mass, or chemical equivalent of activation energy, alloying, and catalysts
- However, you need some form of constraints to see the problem: