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More patio11 laws: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306.html A variant of the curre
by ignoramous 7y ago
More patio11 laws: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306.html
A variant of the current law also makes an appearance:
"The amount of money flowing through capitalism would astound you. The number and variety of firms participating in the economy would astound you."
My picks are:
"Startups are (by necessity) filled with generalists; big companies are filled with specialists. People underestimate how effective a generalist can be at things which are done by specialists. People underestimate how deep specialties can run. These are simultaneously true."
"You radically underestimate both a) how much you know that other people do not and b) the instrumental benefits to you of publishing it."
- secondbreakfast 7y ago> a) how much you know that other people do not this is a particularly confounding problem, and i haven't figured out a way to combat it. it's so bad, that i'll often learn something new when scrolling twitter or clicking through wikipedia, and then immediately assume that 1) i'm the last person to the party, everybody else already knows, and 2) forget what it was like not-knowing this fact mere seconds before.