Why did it take 100 years to publish the first book on probability?

Questions for you:

  • What patterns do I observe repeatedly but haven’t tried to systematise or understand mathematically?
  • Where am I relying on intuition when I could develop a more rigorous understanding?
  • What would it mean to bring analytical thinking to areas of my life I currently treat as purely intuitive?

Questions for your organisation:

  • Are there areas where we operate on accumulated wisdom without really understanding the underlying mechanisms?
  • What practices do we follow because “they work” without knowing why they work?
  • Where might systematic analysis of our apparently random outcomes reveal useful patterns?

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