4-1a4b2b1 'One-of-those' over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your 'own' experience)

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” – Sherlock Holmes

“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime. Everything comes in circles…The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.” – Sherlock Holmes

Next:

• 4-1a4b2b2 History repeats and reverses
  • But 10-1a3a The US doesn’t want you to remember what happened recently
    • 3-1c1d5 Dashboards over newspapers

Related:

• 2-1a5a Evolution doesn’t care about lifetime of each individual gene-meme carrier (its sample is beyond your own experience and any human lifetime)
• 4-1a4b2b0 Your algo is your principles
• 5-1b4b1 Life’s evolution’s superpower is its time horizon. 3.8 billion years of miniscule changes compounded.
  • AN3C - Recombination is 1,000x more effective than random mutation
• Otherwise it’s blizzard of one-offs
  • 3-1c1d0 We are overconsuming novelty (and “serendipity”) and under-consuming purpose. The first thing to look at each day should be your purpose and metrics to improve upon, not some random stories.
    • [Purpose over reaction]
• You grow from reflecting on the past mistakes—invert, always invert
  • ANY past mistakes (i.e., doesn’t have to be ‘your’ mistakes only)categories
    • 9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.
      • 7-1a2 You can also make their problem as your problem by using growth as a guidance.