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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
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2 dated positions, 2015, in their own words. Our reading of what Tim Urban has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsConventional wisdom is slow to move, and there’s significant lag time between when something becomes reality and when conventional wisdom is revised to reflect that reality. And by the time it does, reality has moved on to something else. But chefs don’t pay attention to that, reasoning instead using their eyes and ears and experience. By ignoring conventional wisdom in favor of simply looking at the present for what it really is and staying up-to-date with the facts of the world as they change in real-time—in spite of what conventional wisdom has to say—the chef can act on information the rest of us haven’t been given permission to act on yet.
↗The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Saucewaitbutwhy.com 8th of 11 in this piece
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Their wordsBeing a gamechanger is just having little enough respect for the game that you realize there’s no good reason not to change the rules.
↗The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Saucewaitbutwhy.com 10th of 11 in this piece