The Importance of Connecting Fields

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If you find something that is true in more than one field, you've probably uncovered something that is particularly important. The best way to learn how the world works is to realize how connected everything is. We're usually taught in school as if math is math and chemistry is chemistry. But learning like that is only useful in academia. The real world has no silos. And once you do, you realize that those connections between fields are infinite. They are never ending. It's just a big web of how the world work.

This episode has little to do with money. But in some ways it has everything to do with money.

That's the riddle I want to unpack.

I want to share a bunch of examples of what one field can teach us about another.

What can we learn from biology that teaches us something about money?

What can we learn from physics that teaches us something about business?

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important. The more fields it shows up in, the more likely it is to be a fundamental and recurring driver of how the world works.