## Chaos Sense Making - Create a **culture of error correction & critical feedback** to make rational decisions & avoid bad ones - Low entropy spaces with stability & predictability allow for **high entropy surprise** - Passionate intensity propels us, but to which direction is the question (we need to be mindful) - Balance between **Surprise** (we don't even know) x **Suspense** (we know, just not the verdict / duration) --- [[Technology Intimacy]] ### Directional Arrows of progress: - Arrow of inevitability - Arrow of impossibility **What does everyone else believe and where are they wrong --> Leads to unique niches** ### Power of tools: Tools have a role to play, too. - Jimi Hendricks w/o Guitar - Steve Jobs w/o Microchip  - Babe Ruth w/o Baseball bat *Tools like Obsidian x Quantum Compute will power what / who and when will that be real?* --- Caution: The excess of excesses is ending - Borrowing capital to invest is getting unsustainable and has been a by-product of twidling fingers of retail investors stuck at home showing irrational exuberance, leading to over-valuations and a disregard of value investing fundamentals. ##### Good to LISTEN to the Venting and then use the insight to invent --> Vent to invent flow #### Tech & changes that enable the shift from disabled to abled, also could have different utility enabling the shift from human to super human Eg. Curb cuts for the disabled, helping e-commerce delivery / autonomous robots ### Frames of Reference 1. Ask What Sucks? Then invent a new way around it 2. Imagine in Sci-Fi to actualise Sci-Fact: Bullish about science and tech, skeptic about human nature 3. [[Fitzgerald Twain Schopenhauer]] 4. Triple Failure Philosophy - Failure comes from the inability to imagine failure. Entrepreneurs are risk killers. DBT: **Dialectical behaviour therapy** (DBT): Synthesizing our reasonable & emotional mind. Marsha Linehan. --- - The arms race between Deception and detection is an infinite game, that leads to the constant improvement of technology - Technology has evolved because of this arms race between deception and detection, to conceal and reveal truths. - Self-deception is a coping mechanism to help us deal with painful realities. - Over-confidence against the odds is the key to survival. - From fake it till you make it, to make it to fake it. - Discovering the truth to avoiding it's detection. - We are not here, but want you to think that we are. - Art imitates life, which imitates art - We consent to being deceived in terms of acting, magicians and technology. --- - If you want to persuade, appeal to interest not to reason. - Everything is derivative: copy & mutate to innovate - Like to be right and intellectually competitive