Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Poets and Quants

Logic says one should specialize, can I specialize in variety?



  • Heights of a specialized, specific job, finance algorithmic trading does exactly the above: trying to understand, quantify relationships between seemingly unrelated information to invest and make money


  • Designer does the same: trying to juxtapose related/unrelated visual elements together to create that dress


  • Poet does the same: trying to juxtapose similar/opposite words together as metaphors to create the beautiful poem



  • Understanding patterns between related things

  • Understanding relationships between unrelated things

  • Communicating these relationships

  • Drawing insights from these relationships


All 'thinking' jobs are human quests to identify pattern, seek meaning, and replicate the pattern and relationships. Only 'of what' changes.

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