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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Finding something that you genuinely love doing is easier said than done. It's hard to predict what you'll end up loving. If you're not looking at this from the perspective of an individual but a funnel like social construct then it's a separate matter.
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>Genuinely love what you’re doing Or do what you love? Or both? Or something that you cannot help but return to and be awesome at?
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We need to create again a monopoly company married to a research lab like old ATT. And let hiring to happen old school way. This diversity church is hurting creativity based hiring. Neurobiology is a biatch.
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And then you take that one step beyond the point where everyone else gave up. Because, you love what you do. And that particular one step makes all the difference.
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The best protection is to be wired such that 1) you have no choice but to think differently and 2) you are too stupid and/or stubborn to care about incentives
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so many levels of “spot on” on this thread
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In "Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty" James Austin defines
#altamirage as a form of#luck that stems from your personal interests pursued over a period of time. I think it's a useful formulation and drives the differentiation you outline.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You mimetically acquire the things you love
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And to find other people who love the subject and to work with them
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