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opportunity cost appears in 23 chunks across 21 episodes, from 2023-10-02 to 2026-03-23.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/12/24 (2024-08-12), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with Google, capped downside, and downside risk, while by chunk count it sits between lowest common denominator and emergent system; its yearly rank moved from #7 in 2023 to #61 in 2026.
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Range2023-10-02 to 2026-03-23Mean1.1 per episodePeak2 on 2024-08-12
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...lso a bonus lottery ticket.
Each seedling is a bet with capped downside (mainly opportunity cost) and significant upside.
To guarantee great returns, you'd need a big enough orchard to plant 1000 trees: 1000 bets.
...e, a kind of zero-based budgeting technique to make sure you're considering the opportunity cost of keeping a moderate success alive.
But I think the lens is flawed because you get to take for granted your starting point.
You don't have to prove ...
...the downside cost of a failed experiments, then the cost becomes primarily only opportunity cost...
...but the upside remains!
You can reduce the downside cost of experimentation by for example introducing fire breaks between components (so an ex...