# How we explore ![[Pasted image 20210626172441.png]] 1. **Diverge** 1. Explore what exists 2. Understand who is who 3. Learn the fundamentals 4. Decipher where the cutting edge is 2. **Converge** 1. Ask bold questions 2. Focus for your interests 3. Find interesting & valuable niches 4. Fall down & create content on rabbit holes 3. **Emerge** 1. Define what is what today & where tomorrow is going to go 2. Build thesis on what could be routed in first principles & linchpin triggers 3. Specialize to compound your knowledge 4. Bet to build leverage ### Growth Theme Specific ![[Pasted image 20210626172241.png]] ### Domain Specific Sense Making To form our own thoughts on a domain, you read widely and deeply on the key authors and companies there. Questions we ask, find answers for and create on: - What are the key questions they are asking? - What are the main arguments they are making and the structure of their arguments? - What is the evidence supporting their claims? Path to sense-making: - You take and make notes. - You map those ideas together. - You synthesize and remix those ideas and made notes.