< I didn't want to succumb to group think. > It's unavoidable, but compartmentalization of Information and focus can help. You don't always have to mix fragmen

< I didn't want to succumb to group think. > It's unavoidable, but compartmentalization of Information and focus can help. You don't always have to mix fragments of known things (Do you think you know everything or almost anything you know?) with possibly new ways of providing products functionality or a completely new product consciously, but many times you are putting an "additional" cognitive effort when you try to predict if someone else would do it the same way you do it, or will go through the same thought process, and get the same results. Of course, that "additional" can overload you. < I do wonder how much speculation, opinion and general exposure to ways of thinking shape our thoughts in subtle ways. I'm generally afraid of a future where this phenomenon becomes better understood and weaponized. > Those phenomenons are being exploited from centuries ago but they have different causes and taxonomies according to the discipline you look at them.