Even professional intelligence organizations spend quite a bit of time distilling non-secrets which would otherwise be poorly understood. It’s called “open source intelligence”, and that is both a shibboleth not widely known outside the IC (another shibboleth) and not secret.
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It's sort of embarrassing how much insight just stuff like reading primary sources versus downstream analysis provides
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I swear I had multiple lightbulb moments years apart: “I bet someone has written about this before somewhere publicly accessible!” “I could email them a question about what they had written!” “I could email them a question about what they had not written!” “I could have dinner!”
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Knowledge arbitrage
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That used to be a very real and extremely lucrative thing, and the Internet has decimated the returns to many forms of it while simultaneously raising the returns to insight cross-application, and these are both two non-secrets that drive more of the news than the actual news.
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Seems like to learn these open secrets in field X one must either: 1) Have sufficient interest in X to come across it during research 2) Follow person for field Y who happens to randomly also share info on X 3) Follow a broad info aggregator Any other tactics?
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Rather than follow, be proactive. When you have to do X, try to always ask: what’s the best way to do X? Who’s done the best version? Are they out there, can I talk to them?
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And when such knowledge is presented but conflicts with what a potential learner has always believed, it will normally get rejected, even if supported with solid evidence. "That can't possibly be correct."
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Aren’t secrets are just unevenly distributed knowledge? When one or two people know something it’s unevenly distributed knowledge, a secret.
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