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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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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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    2. Rahul Ramchandani‏ @Rahul_Ramc 18 Aug 2019
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      Replying to @vgr @nrose @david_perell

      What does breaking mean here? Any examples?

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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      Replying to @Rahul_Ramc @nrose @david_perell

      Most of the ones I have in mind are technical unfortunately. Think of analogies and metaphors as creating soft constraints on thought. If your idea of human flight is connected to bird flight, you’d never invent the fixed wing plane, let alone the helicopter.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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      So between Otto Lilienthal and the Wright Brothers, humans had to painfully work up the courage to break the “obvious” connection between flapping wings and flying.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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      Look at the destruction and creation paper. The idea for a snowmobile is born by first disconnecting the parts of a motorcycle and skis, them reconnecting a subset of the parts. But even this is too structured. In general, the process is anarchic.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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      The broad idea though is that entropy increase dictated by second law suggests there will be more disconnecting than reconnecting required to drive creative destruction. And the destruction takes both more imagination and more courage.

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    8. Rahul Ramchandani‏ @Rahul_Ramc 18 Aug 2019
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      This is great. If metaphor is intelligence then the application of metaphor to something non obvious is imagination+courage.

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    9. Rahul Ramchandani‏ @Rahul_Ramc 18 Aug 2019
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      Would you say a lot of your work is on these lines? The application of organisation theory to the office etc. seems to follow this.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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      I’d be wary if such definitions. There’s creating connections in various ways: metaphor, logic, aesthetics, symmetry. There’s breaking connections. There’s refactoring, jokes, absurdity, OCD, wordplay.... the toolkit is infinite.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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      At some point if you don’t let go of procedural fixation and just *think* in unfettered ways, doing whatever seems like a good trick, you are at risk of turning into a robot running a library of mental models and playbooks. Great for making reference texts, not for thinking.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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          To bring it back to the OP, you have to keep forging ahead building out a new linear sequence (serialize the intermediate complexity) by any means necessary. Serialization is continuation. Infinite game: figure out how to continue the game. Connectionitis is a finite game trap.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Aug 2019
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          You did that well with your Lou Keep + memes thread 😀

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