3-1a4b1.3 Your circle of competence can be widened, deepened, made clearer

You can widen (or deepen, or clarify) your circle of competence (i.e., your conception of reality) gradually and reflexively.reflexivityrevisit

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• Do it before ready
  • 1-1a2a4 The flexibility of humans are found particularly in the tacit knowledge
• Test constantly
  • 1-1a5b2 Launch means criticism. It’s an equivalent to experimental testing in science.
  • 1-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)
• 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
• 1-2f1b9 Repeat what works
• 5-2b5 Theories precede data
• 5-2b6 Theories need data
• The widening process has to be reflexive with reality (i.e., you have to continually test your hypotheses via recalibration), just like how children acquire cultures and languages:
  • 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society
    • 10-1b4a Learning is imitation and testing
• E.g., Henry Singleton learned as he acquired, and he acquired more as he learned more:
  • 3-1d1 We must start with our own peculiar constraints
  • 4-1a4b6b0 We can make almost anything happen (in the way we want) regardless of contextual constraints because we can tweak everything (in piecemeal engineering fashion) by using symbols
  • 7-1a4b Understanding the measurement-constraints amounts to understanding the system-incentives. That is, creating explanations.