PART 3 · CHAPTER 18 · What To Do About It

Mental Models for the Frontier

You cannot navigate the frontier with maps drawn for the old country. You need new ways of seeing.

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WHAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS

A title, the published opening thesis and the chapter's section headings. The argument, evidence, examples and full prose remain in the book.

The chapter's route

  1. 01The Failure of Straight Lines
  2. 02The Long Quiet Before the Loud Part
  3. 03Optionality Is Not Indecision
  4. 04The Frontier Is a Search Problem
  5. 05Fast Updating Without Becoming a Weather Vane
  6. 06The Shape of Early Advantage
  7. 07Five Shifts in How to See
  8. 08What to Keep Fixed
  9. 09The Courage to Be Early
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