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The Adjacent Possible
One concept that really stood out to me in one of my business school classes today is the idea of the “adjacent possible.” Although the professor did not go into that idea in too much detail, he drew upon a metaphor that served to ingrain the idea in my mind.
A child who is seeing the night sky for the first time is asked, “what do you see?” Instead of “lights,” what he is really answering is his form of the idea of the “adjacent possible.”