Rethinking AI (8)
Everyone is terrified of being wrong.
That’s a shame, because being wrong is one of the most useful signals you can get.
A mistake forces you to stop and trace the path backward. You revisit the assumptions you took for granted. You test which pieces held up, which ones failed, and which ones you never examined in the first place. That kind of slow, deliberate rewinding reveals more about how you think than any success ever will.
It does require some humility. You have to sit with the discomfort long enough to see the structure beneath it. But once you do, the payoff is real. Your mental models tighten. Your pattern recognition sharpens. You start noticing the subtle clues that would have slipped by you before.
The people who grow the fastest aren’t the ones who get everything right. They’re the ones who use every wrong turn as a map — a way to understand how they think, why they think that way, and how to think better next time.