Year: 2025
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Breaking out of paradigms
‘What happens with a lot of creative works is that people exist within a paradigm and they don’t realise that they’re constrained by their paradigm. So they’re a little bit like a goldfish swimming around in a bowl, and they say ‘we could travel the world!’ and you say to them ‘what about the bowl?’…
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On career and life plateaus
I really like this George Leonard quote (via Shane Parrish) from a 1987 Esquire Magazine piece, talking about how mastery is a series of plateaus interspersed by brief spurts of progress: “The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend…
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On misinterpreting the diffusion of innovations curve
The diffusion of innovations curve, developed by Everett Rogers, has become a pretty iconic tool in understanding how new ideas, products, or technologies gain traction within a market. Its simplicity is compelling: a bell curve that categorises adopters (or a population) into five groups — innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Yet,…