If you think you've 'got' something and then months or even years later realise that what you thought you'd 'got' you finally now 'get'... So now you feel like you never really had it...? Is that an accurate assumption? To have gotten 'something' you had to (at that time) been paying attention. Attention enough for it to register in yo...

--On Models and Truth-- The ones who have the best Models and Explanations Have reality on their side This is the way of understanding --On Recognition-- When expectations meet resistance Know there is friction between your Ideas and Reality This is the first signal --On the Nature of Choice-- What presents as friction Can manifest as ...

Potential Surrounds us... I came across a quote today that got me thinking... “"If your experiments succeed in proving the hypothesis, you have made a measurement; if they fail to prove the hypothesis, you have made a discovery." - Enrico Fermi” If you have an idea of how to do something and why; coupled with what to expect when you do...

Outlier Teaming... Outliers Work together by ruthlessly and relentless sledgehammering (Exploitation & Testing) of ideas.. In order to beat the crap out of bad ones and bring the Quality / Excellence that remains, forwards. In Outlier Teams you pay with a currency that you are continuously developing (Knowledge). It's cost effective fo...

A Thought Experiment Humanity's biggest challenge emerged today as a unique phenomenon... The sudden disappearance of all memes across cultures. This unprecedented event has left us with only latent cultural memories, a rich yet untapped reservoir of cultural essence. In the wake of this cultural reset, we are presented with an opportu...

There are arguments against 'Foresight' that say we cannot predict the growth of knowledge... In other words The future is uncertain... Which is true... However, does that stop us from envisioning possibilities and scenarios that may well play out? What about the current trends in Ai or the potential of one day reaching AGI? What kind ...

People can be quick to pounce on others when they hear something they dislike/think they know better... (Polarise and Pounce) As a consequence they completely miss that the other may well be highly capable of outlining their own side much better than they could... However, by that time those who got pounced on may have wisely decided t...

First Principles need to take into account the environment to have a real chance of explanation. Just like a seed will grow into a tree if it has the correct environment. For that to be a robust tree with strong roots it needs all these other elements. Then, it can develop the core trunk and branches from which everything else grows an...

Bud Light Vs Cancel Culture. Is a great example of how people can, and do make mistakes but take ownership, with the aim of course correcting... At the same time, others still want to see them torched... Static Vs Dynamic Culture. Maybe when people say they did something wrong they get the opportunity to show what they do differently.....

Our ceiling collapsed in the middle of the night... The water was coming on from a blocked drain on the balcony... The wife went out wrapped in a towel and started clearing the drain in a puddle about 6 inches deep with freezing water... Eventually she shouted to me 'can you get out of bed and use the torch on your phone to help me see...

Hey (x), I'm gonna speak from experience, personal experience and not because I want to talk about me per se, I've never really shared this with anybody. But in the hope that you might take something useful. In my very early 20s, probably 20, 21, I was going to raves and taking a lot of drugs on a weekend, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, S...

A common misinterpretation of Sun Tzu's Art of War is that competition involves 'deception' in the sense of lying, cheating, and manipulation. However, if we considered his work as aiming for peace being the highest form of excellence rather than destroying opponents, it can have a very, very, different meaning. For example, when Sun T...

In interactions if people are not curious to understand (which implies not knowing) then how can they expect to hear what others are really saying? Unless it matches precisely what's already being assumed the interaction is low quality at best. To some extent it's not about listening, or the capacity to listen which I think is inherent...

'Inventing falsehoods is easy, and therefore they are easy to vary once found; discovering good explanations is hard, but the harder they are to find, the harder they are to vary once found.' - David Deutsch Two Way Thinking... An explanatory probe on the above quote. Making things up (lies/excuses/blame) is easy. As a result it's equa...