A very insightful read. I enjoyed it. One exception stands out to me though. In technology when one competitor is able to achieve something in secrecy, and the

A very insightful read. I enjoyed it. One exception stands out to me though. In technology when one competitor is able to achieve something in secrecy, and then only reveals its existence by demonstration. For example, during WW2 America possessed high quality fuel refining techniques. This enabled American planes to have capabilities that German planes could not duplicate. Americans could make a 27L engine like the V1650 Merlin with the same output as a German 41L engine like the BMW 139. And then even when they captured a V1650 they couldn't reproduce the results due to their technical debt (that's an ironic statement to describe Germany during that time but fuel was never really their wheelhouse). From a pre-globalized, pre-information age German perspective the proof that this was possible could only be in the pudding. What about when you are confronted with something that you cannot explain and cannot reproduce. Then you would have no choice but to iterate your methodology and understanding and, in many ways, become the expert you never wanted to be. By cooking enough times you eventually learn how thin a "thinly sliced onion" should be.