The Difference Between Chefs and Cooks

Both are Professionals that create a tangible output every day. They both require a Meez that allows for consistent daily work. TEST The difference is that Cooks follow a recipe.

Cooks are industrialists that know that Every task is a compiler. They take inputs and turn them into outputs. They do this consistently. People depend on that consistency.

Sometimes, most times actually, you just need a loaf of bread. It's not a problem if it was made the same way using the same recipe as the last one you bought. Better, actually.

Knowing what you're getting allows you to focus on other things. Consistency and dependability reduce complexity.

Chefs don't use recipes.

They can't, because 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. They are there to create something new, because for them Figuring Out How To Do Something Is More Fun Than Doing It.

They are the ones that Go Slay The Dragon, Get The Gold, Share It With The Community. Without them, there would be no recipes.

Both are needed. Both have different audiences, different goals.