Comments on: Trying to be ignorant about different things than everyone else http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/09/21/trying-to-be-ignorant-about-different-things-than-everyone-else/ 256 words or less - or your money back! Sat, 04 May 2013 17:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chaos Node » Diversity of ignorance http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/09/21/trying-to-be-ignorant-about-different-things-than-everyone-else/#comment-883 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:08:50 +0000 https://max256.wordpress.com/?p=3003#comment-883 […] Trying to be ignorant about different things than everyone else is a short and concise argument for diversity of knowledge.  He does not belabor the point that we today have an astounding diversity of knowledge in our work, and that a shared knowledge base in our free time may help retain social cohesion. I largely agree with him: There is if anything less diversity in the freetime of the non-knowledge workers, so it seems to me. […]

]]> By: Magnus Itland http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/09/21/trying-to-be-ignorant-about-different-things-than-everyone-else/#comment-882 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:50:34 +0000 https://max256.wordpress.com/?p=3003#comment-882 That’s a good point, although we knowledge workers become specialized automatically through our work. Some even become “profession idiots” with only limited connection to consensus reality. This may make it hard to feed any new discoveries back to the rest.

But overall I agree: Your way of thinking is probably the future, if any. If we are to spot a black swan in the twilight, we need to look in all directions.

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