Perfect plans are impossible in uncertainty.
... this expensive clean-up work!" But the perfect plan is impossible. The perfect meta-plan is resilient to many possible real world outcomes. It assumes uncertainty.
Topic: Meta
48 mentions · 88 chunks · 57 episodes
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- Meta appears in 88 chunks across 57 episodes, from 2023-10-30 to 2026-04-13.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/2/26 (2026-03-02), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, Google, and OpenAI, while by chunk count it sits between disconfirming evidence and OpenAI; its yearly rank moved from #9 in 2023 to #10 in 2026.
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People tend to focus on big rocks, but they should focus on the acorns.
...Give them all a bit of shade. Make sure there's water. This way, you can take a meta-bet on lots of acorns. You can late-bind your decision on which one to invest the most in, waiting to see which ones get momentum to start. This allo...
There are many different types of generalists.
... a high-quality intuition on just about any topic relatively quickly. These are meta-experts. They work best when paired with a deep expert on the topic they're looking at. The meta-expert can quickly abduct possible meta hypotheses t...
A single app is a strategy: a bet on a single thing.
A single app is a strategy: a bet on a single thing. A platform is a meta-strategy: a bet on any of a swarm of things. You can discover later which item in the swarm turned out to be most important (or, perhaps a collection...
Social systems have self-ratcheting dynamics from recursion.
...ng yet another loop or reaction to others' actions. In the military, a powerful meta-strategy is "get inside your opponent's OODA loop". That is, do your action/decision loop faster than your opponent, so by the time they're reacting ...
If you're playing twelve dimensional chess, make sure you aren't playing on an imaginary board.
...dimensional chess, make sure you aren't playing on an imaginary board. The more meta something gets, the more leverage it can have, but also the farther away from ground-truthing it gets. It might sound genius, but be completely non-v...
I had a chance to do some scenario planning last week with various folks on the long-range impact of LLMs on humanity.
...r who is well-read, eager to please, a bit naive, and never, ever gets bored. A meta thing was how useful using LLMs to distill insight and generate ideas to react to was to augment the human discussion. Ethan Mollick observed this bu...
Allow your counterparties to self-select.
Allow your counterparties to self-select. This is a powerful meta-strategy at the core of many strategic judo moves. Your counterparties might be your users, your peers, or your partners. The default approach is to ...