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That book was written by computer scientists, and they demonstrate how the optimal search algorithm is often to pick the most unusual thing to try that you have
by tacon 9y ago
That book was written by computer scientists, and they demonstrate how the optimal search algorithm is often to pick the most unusual thing to try that you haven't tried yet. I'd like to see more discussion about this as an approach to personal development. Many people advise students and new graduates to sample the search space broadly, without detailed goals, just to see what's out there. It almost becomes the "do something every day that scares you" maxim. There is an old saying about "Everything you want in life is waiting just outside your comfort zone."
- maroonblazer 9y agoI've not watched the video nor read the book but I take it slightly differently. Reinertsen, in "Managing the Design Factory", describes the need for companies to generate high value information as efficiently as possible. Using Shannon's theory of information, he argues that low-information events are those events where the likelihood of either success or failure is high. Out of this comes the fact that you maximize the information output when the probability of failure is 50%. How many of us take risks - professionally or personally - where the probability of failure is 50%?