5.6. Trust in Instinct
If you hire the cream and let them specialize, then you have the luxury of gaining a level of confidence in instinct. Like the Jedi Force, it is one of the most powerful weapons conceivable. It is the ability to trust in instinct that gives a tiny firm an overwhelming advantage over the largest monopolies.
It is hard to separate instinct from experience. Experience allows one to appear to have uncanny instinct that may actually be little more than learning from past experience without specific recollection of those experiences, as in my earlier Design by Consensus anecdote. Instinct may also arise from an ability to anticipate or from the ability to translate experience from one situation to another. It may come from intangible ...
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