The classical model of discovery is as follows: you search for what you know (say, a new way to reach India) and find something you didn’t know was there (America). If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity. The term serendipity was coined in a letter by the writer Hugh Walpole, who derived it from a fairy tale, “The Three Princes of Serendip.” These princes “were always making discoveries by accident or sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.” Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan (pp. 166-167). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
The important feature of creativity—it's serendiputous. PN: Times of slack for serendipity
Secondly, this excerpt shows the recipe for creativity. In short, you must do stuff. Like in PN: How to get startup ideas, it's best to work on what interests you and keep living in the future. By building—i.e., externalizing your ideas in the physical world—you will discover things that only reality can disguise to you like in P: Bring the metaphysical into the physical
Does bringing the metaphysical into the physical work because we expose the ludic fallacy? Those idealized but simplified pieces of reality get uncovered and this is where inventions hide?
This shows that you have to have projects that you execute because they are what ena le serendipity. Putting thoughts into action in rral life can trigger new combinations like billiard balls hitting each other
therefore do shit. Ship stuff. Execute. Implement and be ready for inspiration to come. Not the other way around. This is the cardinal rule.
This also shows the side product of goals. You want to achieve on thing but you achieve another, unexpected because diving into reality shows you that your idealized goal was inaccurate, which is now irrelevant cuz you achieved more than you initially set out to.
By doing something you know (an objective or hypothesis) you find something that you didn't was there.
This shows that our platonicity and ludic fallacy—ridding reality of Black Swans through simplification due to our cognitive limitations—can work in our favor. You see, the hypothesis that hid BS could hide BS of the positive kind. When you test your hypothesis—implement it in reality—those BS get exposed leading to new things. The new things can be innovative on their own or they can act as a spare part (that was previously missing) to spark a novel idea. (PN: Most new ideas are incomplete)
By doing something you know (an objective or hypothesis) you find something that you didn't was there.
This shows that our platonicity and ludic fallacy—ridding reality of Black Swans through simplification due to our cognitive limitations—can work in our favor. You see, the hypothesis that hid BS could hide BS of the positive kind. When you test your hypothesis—implement it in reality—those BS get uncovered, leading to new things. The new things can be innovative on their own or they can act as a spare part (that was previously missing) to spark a novel idea. (PN: Most new ideas are incomplete)