Path Dependence

examples + insights on the phenomenon of outcomes depending on historical occurrences not current conditions... exploring how many products are products of choices born of choices born of choices, a flow of causality that nobody planned and that you could never perfectly predict.

by sari and · updated 11d ago

It's wild how literally everything around us is the way it is for a reason ...and just stays that way, unless some strong external force causes it to change (quote from @MikeShatzkin's excellent newsletter) https://t.co/Ali22rYkn4
by Nathan Baschez
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Path Dependence:
The QWERTY keyboard layout was a misguided attempt to stop typewriters jamming, but, despite being inefficient for typing, it’s endured into the digital age, because we all just accepted it as the norm.
from 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts by Gurwinder Bhogal
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Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them. Clocks created a culture of anxiety. Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.
by David Perell
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Opinion | How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works
nytimes.com
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40 Mind-Expanding Concepts
by Gurwinder Bhogal
gurwinder.substack.com
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sari added 1y ago
1/ Random payment trivia: the reason restaurants have two receipts, one with the items you got and a second one with the total amount + signature, is that in the early days of Visa they were worried that restaurants wouldn't sign up...
by Dimitri Dadiomov
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sari added 1y ago
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It's wild how literally everything around us is the way it is for a reason ...and just stays that way, unless some strong external force causes it to change (quote from @MikeShatzkin's excellent newsletter) https://t.co/Ali22rYkn4

from 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts by Gurwinder Bhogal

Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them. Clocks created a culture of anxiety. Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.

Opinion | How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works

40 Mind-Expanding Concepts

1/ Random payment trivia: the reason restaurants have two receipts, one with the items you got and a second one with the total amount + signature, is that in the early days of Visa they were worried that restaurants wouldn't sign up...