Re:The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)
by jariel on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:22PM
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"A bad plan is always preferable to no plan" - recently associated with Thiel but I believe it's an old military adage.
I think there is something metaphysical about it; the 'grey' is the ether and the black and white is the materiality that comes out of it literally from force of will.
You can only create something by making a choice, choosing a path, 'making the quantum observation' which dissolves the ambiguity.
Too often we think of the 'solutions' as a form of 'clarity' ... when reality, 'clarity' might be just the force
(or clarity) of vision more than anything.
Consider three rules of branding: consistency, authenticity, simplicity. The message resonates when it is consistently and repeatedly applied in a simple way, and there is some kind of 'truthiness' (i.e. authenticity) to it. Sometimes I think of a product roadmap, and all the crazy internal and external politics of it all, as a form of branding. It's a 'decision' (i.e. either black or white) reiterated among individuals such that they can resonate their various talents around it, pushing it into fruition.
I think there is something metaphysical about it; the 'grey' is the ether and the black and white is the materiality that comes out of it literally from force of will.
You can only create something by making a choice, choosing a path, 'making the quantum observation' which dissolves the ambiguity.
Too often we think of the 'solutions' as a form of 'clarity' ... when reality, 'clarity' might be just the force (or clarity) of vision more than anything.
Consider three rules of branding: consistency, authenticity, simplicity. The message resonates when it is consistently and repeatedly applied in a simple way, and there is some kind of 'truthiness' (i.e. authenticity) to it. Sometimes I think of a product roadmap, and all the crazy internal and external politics of it all, as a form of branding. It's a 'decision' (i.e. either black or white) reiterated among individuals such that they can resonate their various talents around it, pushing it into fruition.