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This week’s topic is Unfiltered Context Unfiltered Context.
This quote comes from Competing Against Luck:
…an entrepreneur found himself in a circumstance with no clear solution and declared, “I’m going to fix this!” In a sense, he began both as the CEO and a target customer—there was no separation between the innovator and his customer’s job. Much of the information ne eded to make decisions about solving for a job is found in the context of the struggle. We call that “passive data” because it has no voice or clear structure or champion or agenda. Passive data, by itself, doesn’t tell us what is going on in the world because the Job to Be Done doesn’t change much. Passive data is just unfiltered context . It’s always present, but it isn’t loud.
This passage paints a familiar story: Entrepreneurs spot unsolved problems in their own lives, roll up their sleeves, and get ready to go big. Today, we all know that the reason why this story is familiar is thanks to the media and biographers. They themselves are both filters and amplifiers of the world. They pass on those previously unknown dramatic moments in human history, and preserve them forever, and then strengthen them again and again through the continuous reading and eulogy of future generations.
And the above passage implies a twist: this kind of “scratching one’s own itch” is not a sufficient or necessary condition to guarantee success. Success stories try to tell us that just because most people don’t start to act, a small number of people have a higher probability of success. The actual situation is that one person’s itching is not necessarily the same as many people’s itching; and solving one problem does not mean that more problems can be solved.
In the original article, the concept of passive data (passive data) is used to explain the chaos in the real world: itching is a clear signal, but most of the time, the environment does not send us too many signals. For example, hot weather is a signal, it will lead to too many business opportunities such as air conditioning, electric fans, cold beer and ice cream. And such a signal will not come out screaming by itself, but requires keen listening to get some clues in the noise and disorder. As the author said: Passive data will not tell what happened to the world, because the tasks (consumers) to be completed will not change much.
This is the unfiltered context. The world is covered by it, just as the truth is covered by the mean. The process of value creation is to constantly lift this veil, discover silent signals, amplify them, strengthen them, and change the inner structure of things.
For example, every morning I receive many business data emails. At the granularity of the day, many data are only weak fluctuations. Using the usual explanations of data analysts, they all fall within the normal fluctuation range. We all know that under these “normal fluctuations”, the internal structure of things is changing, some rising, some falling, canceling each other out, and the surface is calm. Another explanation is that short-term weak changes will eventually accumulate over a long period of time and evolve into drastic changes. These two explanations do not conflict, but complement each other: small changes that can accumulate in the long run mean that the local has mastered the power to continuously produce changes, that is, has mastered the pathways to shape the future.
Realizing that we live in an unfiltered context may make our consciousness more active and sharp. Whether it is capturing signals or understanding the world in an abstract structure, it is a skill that needs to be practiced all the time.
The book also talks about another concept stack fallacy:
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