There Is No Recipe For New ThingsThere Is No Recipe For New ThingsThere Is No Recipe For New Things Recipes are required for industrialization, for repeating processes in a stable and consistent way. Something done for the first time doesn't have a recipe. Recipes can only be built looking backwards. Naval Ravikant would call these new recipe-less activities "Specific Knowledge". Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you. Creating new recipes is expensive, but usin

Recipes are required for industrialization, for repeating processes in a stable and consistent way.

Something done for the first time doesn't have a recipe. Recipes can only be built looking backwards.

Naval Ravikant would call these new recipe-less activities "Specific Knowledge".

Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

Creating new recipes is expensive, but using recipes once they're created is cheap. The First Pill Costs a Billion Dollars, The Second Pill Costs Four Cents.

For some people, Figuring Out How To Do Something Is More Fun Than Doing It - and they love making new recipes. They gravitate to new things specifically because it gives them the opportunity to make new recipes. IAboutHi, I’m Samuel Cochrane 👋 , I'd describe myself as an intelligence developer. Sometimes that means transforming and extracting raw data to make it useable for business intelligence. Sometimes that means working directly with people to understand their problems and come up with practical solutions as a Sales Engineer. It often means staring out of a window with my head in the clouds. Right now, I’m working on: * Practical uses for GPT and Stable Diffusion. * Learning D&D. 🧙‍♂️ * My current am one of those people.