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...things don't fit in the surrounding system, fundamentally. If they fit into the status quo, if they went with the grain, they wouldn't be interesting. Interesting things are about innovation, but also they are dangerous to the existing orde...
...w creations are speciation events. They need to deviate from the core, from the status quo. The more signals that are being spread around, the more quickly it pulls everyone to the status quo. You need a bit of isolation for speciation to o...
...hat is currently acceptable that people are willing to go. The further from the status quo, the more you stick your neck out to do it. The further from the status quo, the less likely it is to work. The further from the status quo, the more...
...mental input is already fully captured in the model. Generic, background noise, status quo.
...he horizon of what we can reason about. Because people are mostly fine with the status quo's privacy, we (erroneously) conclude that "people don't care about privacy." But there are use cases that are inconceivable in this privacy paradigm,...
...y enter an embassy), but it is a boundary orders of magnitude stronger than the status quo of "Keep out. Or Enter. I'm a sign, not a cop" Perfect guarantees in the world of privacy or security can never be made. But things that change the c...
...ctual alternative if I didn't"? The actual alternative is almost certainly "the status quo." This bar is significantly easier to clear. If you follow this, you might have some arcing / circuitous paths and wasted effort, but you will be abl...
...-changing idea fundamentally will have at least some concrete downside from the status quo, and might have upside (and sometimes that upside turns out to be transformative). A few places this dynamic shows up: Large companies with bottom-up...
..., to find entirely different modes of transportation, for more than a year! The status quo has the benefit of time; if the change agent gives up then the status quo wins. As people defect / give up, the resolve of the whole erodes at an acc...
...lf doubt. That allows them to imagine something very different from the mundane status quo and drive relentlessly towards it. Most of the time they're wrong. But sometimes one of them is right, and they put a dent in the universe. We don't ...