“By the method of exclusion, I had arrived at this result, for no other hypothesis would meet the facts.” – Sherlock Holmes
“Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically.” – Sherlock Holmes
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- 2-1b2b1 ‘Inversion’ - Avoid stupid obvious bullshit you’d regret in the future
- 5-2b1a2 When you invert, you are inverting the problem-situation itself (’why do I have this problem’)
- 7-2a Be opportunistic and flexible globally rather than inverting locally and prematurely optimized
- RUL3 - Invert, always invert
- RUL3 - Bounded commitment - choose one best thing available, commit for predetermined time period, then revisit. Similar to balancing depth-first vs breadth-first in search algorithms. Think of your time as quantifiable resource like capital.