In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Category: Notes
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Beginner’s Mind
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Planning vs Design
Planning applies established procedures to solve a largely understood problem within an accepted framework. Design inquires into the nature of a problem to conceive a framework for solving that problem. In general, planning is problem solving, while design is problem setting. Where planning focuses on generating a plan—a series of executable actions—design focuses on learning about the nature of an unfamiliar problem.
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Knowing The Other’s Side Argument
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.
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Free Will
Free will exists in situations in which people who are similar to each other make different choices.
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Advances Against Poverty
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.
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Phrasing The Question
If you can properly phrase the question, then the answer is the easy part.
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Startup Outliers
The best startups almost have to start as side projects, because great ideas tend to be such outliers that your conscious mind would reject them as ideas for companies.