We don't understand how most medicines work. Jeans regulate jeans. We have no model for pain. If you drink water and get a hangover, it's not correlated with dehydration. There is nothing we know about etha alcohol that affects us in any way. The body is extraordinarily complex.
"The world is incredibly complicated, and humans necessarily use heuristics and analogies to process that complexity into simpler forms. These mental shortcuts are never perfect, but they should broadly summarize the complexity they represent while affording their user a sense of their limitations.
In that vein, I want to call attention to two lazy tech analogies that I’ve seen lately as examples of the kind of impoverished analogical thinking that the industry needs to actively avoid." - Danny Crichton
Lux Capital's "Securities" newsletter edition: American national security and startups + Lazy tech analogies by Danny Crichton
"Securities" podcast is produced and edited by Chris Gates