The rare person who never suppresses "why?" accumulates a lattice of models that turns curiosity into compounding advantage.
Curiosity bounded by job title. Reads only what's "relevant." Models remain siloed. Sees every problem through one lens. Expertise deepens but never cross-pollinates.
Curiosity ungoverned by relevance. Reads biology to understand markets. Borrows from physics to think about incentives. Models from every domain cross-fertilize.
Evolution, natural selection, ecological niches → competitive moats, market dynamics
Critical mass, feedback loops, equilibrium → tipping points in businesses, compounding
Cognitive biases, social proof, reciprocity → mispricing of assets, consumer behaviour
Probability, expected value, combinatorics → betting on odds, base rates over stories
Business cycles, institutional failures, human folly → pattern recognition across eras
Redundancy, failure modes, tolerances → margin of safety, worst-case scenario thinking