The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
While education is important for building up a repository for which you can connect things, it's not enough. You need broad life experiences as well.
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Few of Steve job videos which I refer are well explained here:
More from the same blog:
The ability to risk looking like an idiot is necessary for being different. You never look like a fool if you look like everyone else.
Second-order thinkers take into account a lot of things like, What is the range of possible outcomes? What’s the probability I’m right? What’s the follow-on? How could I be wrong?
The real difference for me is that first-order thinkers are the people that look for things that are simple, easy, and defendable. Second-order thinkers push harder and don't accept the first conclusion.