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“you don't have to know how the thing is going to turn out. You just have to know the next step”
signals: contact with reality (user feedback, post metrics, bugs)
“the longer the race, the less meaningful a head start is”
Self sufficiency is an absurd delusion - there is no human on earth that understands how to make any modern object completely from raw earth to finished form.
Directive vs. Emergent Leadership
Top-down vision → centralized leadership, defined objectives, alignment.
Works well when coordination is key.
Bottom-up emergence → distributed decision-making, adaptive responses.
Works well in dynamic, uncertain environments.
If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived.
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
stand on the shoulders of others — not pretend the shoulders aren’t there.
the stepping stone principle - what you collect is random but leads to other interesting finds.
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