Think Steve Martin said it best:pic.twitter.com/V8o7zkxqn8
Inexperience is an advantage in that you can garbage-collect obsolete components of conventional wisdom by failing to reproduce them.
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The business world exhibits evolution: People imperfectly copy traits from other surviving companies. Inexperience = higher mutation rate.
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Like in biological contexts, a high mutation rate is advantageous in rapidly changing environments, but deleterious in stable environments.
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"But remember, Werner, ignorance is no guarantee of success." ~ Wolfgang Pauli
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Conversely: experience is a growing list of obsolete solutions you need to iterate over before trying something new.
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Basically you're building the "random mutation" part of a genetic algorithm.
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Forgot where I read it, but many cultures specifically have randomness rituals. Also, randomness is a benefit when escaping a predator.
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You're mutating the source code, I take it. Will you make an effort to ensure that all 'submitted' mutations are syntactically valid?
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(Because probabilistically most won't be.)
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