At the beginning of disruptive eras, people only explore ideas adjacent to how it used to work, just with a twist.

· Bits and Bobs 2/3/25
  • At the beginning of disruptive eras, people only explore ideas adjacent to how it used to work, just with a twist.
    • It takes a long time for the swarm of exploration to diffuse beyond the immediate adjacencies.
    • Don't add AI to a thing that used to work before, imagine the things that are only possible in a world of AI.
    • This is much harder to imagine; it requires multi-ply thinking, and the things will seem weird at first glance!
    • Because they will not fit in the last paradigm we're familiar with, but only the new one that we aren't yet familiar with.