Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.
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A pattern I've seen in many different fields: even though many people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they've all worked on similar things.
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Some of the best places of all to find new ideas are fields that people think are played out, because they've already been fully explored. Essays, Lisp, venture funding – you may notice a pattern here.
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The best protection against getting drawn into working on the same things as everyone else may be to genuinely love what you're doing. Then you'll continue to work on it even if you make the same mistake as other people and think that it's too marginal to matter.
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Reminds me of this quote from marketer Jay Abraham: "What stops most people is expertise."
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Or what stops most people is addiction to thrill/ dopamine. Actual operating roles and grinding doesn’t have much of it thus most just like the initial stages of something or repetition like monkeys.
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80/20 split?
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Reminds me of this quote from marketer Jay Abraham: "What stops most people is expertise."
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Talking about this over the weekend. Higher education - in UK at least - seems to reward iterative discovery rather than attempts to create step change. Yet most major progress seems to come from people doing the latter. We could be selecting out innovation.
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Innovation rarely comes from the confines of academia, most of the world changing tech would attest to that.
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Isn’t this essentially the definition of a “paradigm”, and particularly "working within the paradigm" in the Kuhnian sense?
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