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#148 Kenneth Stanley: Set The Right Objectives

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Running Many Experiments Towards Solving Complex Problems

We don't know what the next stepping stone is. It's better to almost take an evolutionary approach where we're creating these mutations, copying errors or trying all these little experiments. We see which of those experiments leads to some interesting insights or conclusions. Then the idea being we take those conclusions or that interesting insight and then we propagate it to all the other nodes,. Almost like nature rewarding variations. But with ambitious goals, they're far off in the future.

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