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/(scratched scratchings) do you know why?

do you know why many of the world’s most impactful thinkers, for centuries, including those of modern times 1, converge on the Socratic method?

it’s because without it, you defer your truth-seeking to entities distributing conclusions benefitting their own misaligned incentives

with it, you unlock the ability to penetrate conventional narratives

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the result is contrarian truth, and contrarian truth paired with conviction2 yields significant alpha

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to think Socratically is to ask

do you know why?

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Footnotes

  1. the modern branding is “first-principles thinking.” first-principles is described in a bottom-up kind of way, and Socratic thinking is described in a top-down kind of way, but they both converge on ↩

  2. the type of conviction only attainable via depth-first truth-seeking ↩

  3. maybe: the innovation age rewards the novel creation enabled by a bottom-up approach (first-principles thinking), which would explain its popularity over the past ~150 years. maybe: the enlightenment rewarded questioning conventional narrative and penetrating untruth. ↩