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Serialized thinking is a superpower. Any idiot can think the obvious sequence of thoughts in a situation. Takes a superidiot to add nonsequential complexity and analyze-paralyze themselves within. But if you can spot and follow an unexpected new sequence easily: superpower.
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I generally have to go slowly painfully through superidiot phase and get to the other side of novel sequence the hard way.
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I think this is a commonly held but deeply mistaken piece of conventional wisdom. I’m a big believer in the opposite. The rare quality is breaking big connections that everybody believes in. Tons of people are good at seeing even obscure connections. Breaking “obvious” ones? Rare
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Musk’s first-principles heuristic is only one of many ways to break the connectionitis inherent to analogically reasoning, but there are many others. Boyd’s snowmobile approach is slightly more general.
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