![]() “Why flints do break upon a soft thing sooner than a hard one” “Why is breath or sweat seen in winter more than in summer” And what’s striking is he wonders – profusely – about very small physical things that a child might wonder about (I modernized the spelling): ![]() They’re breathtaking – the sheer diversity of questions he asks, and the audacious scope of his conjectures. They’re not structured, they’re more him writing down questions about literally everything, and sketching out little proofs / thoughts. I think of this when reading Newton’s notebooks. And in many cases it turns out that there isn’t one, at least not by the paths of the maze that they’ve been exploring. This is why I think of founders and scientists as courageous in precisely the same way: they are driven by a faith that there’s a findable answer there, and they’re willing to dash themselves against the rocks and risk failure to get to that answer. This can be painful and suck up years of people’s lives. ![]() Real life is not this clean frequently you dive into an idea maze and the answer turns out to be “it’s too hard for these structural reasons, and unless you fix these structural reasons there isn’t a sufficiently scalable thing here” or something like that - this seems to be the fate of a lot of startups that tackle sectors like education or health, for example. But I’m not sure I’d have found this without the conviction that there was a possible solution (otherwise, why would Larson have included it in the book?). This is a cycle! It recurs infinitely! And it contains a 6! QED.
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