Usable knowledge lies in the what and not in the how.

Usable knowledge lies in the what and not in the how.
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Everyone, this is in the sake of knowledge and this will guide you. This will help you to take decisions in your life.

Now I think that a lot actually focuses on how to do some things: how to do a medical procedure, how to make a business, and the product steps. What are the product steps? These product steps, for example, are prototype, MCP, and so forth, and they are just human concepts on how to actually build a product.

Although it's completely fine and it makes things much easier for someone to actually take, I think that's not really questioning the reasoning for doing something. At times it's not going to help you. In fact it's going to limit you.

When I woke up I was thinking, I don't know, it came to my mind: MCP. A lot of times I was watching this thing with Cluely and after the MCP they just directly ship it. Now the question is: what is this MCP? There are no definitions about what MCP is. It's just basically the how. It's sort of like an abstract concept of a how to build the product.

Now the thing is, if it's just basically looking at the how, when I really think about Kira, the flow is much different than the normal textbook space: build prototype, build MCP, the way to test the market. It is the same way I was in a job interview as well. The way I won the job interview is clearly not from the internet, but really from the what, the need and stuff like that. That's a very different way of going into an interview than what the textbook provides you.

At times I can imagine that if you're trying to solve one's medical situations, you probably do not just say, "Okay this is the medicine. This is how to treat cancer." Instead you really have to know what the cancer is and what the behavior or characteristics of the specific medicines are and see if it actually is a fit. The understanding of the what is worth much more than the how itself. The what is basically really understanding the natural truth of something. Either it's a scientific natural thing, for example, what actually an electron is and the behavior of an electron, or it's just, basically in business, human psychology. From that root behavior you can actually infer something greater than that.

There's no specific how, right, because this how will be different on a case-by-case basis. I think that's really interesting to think about. If you're really looking at the how, then I don't think you are going to lead to a conclusion or at least not an actual truth. You can go with the how and probably you're just going to do okay, right, because you're not really thinking what's possible anyway.

If you really think in the way of the what, the characteristic, the behavior, something that really describes specific characters, an object, or a phenomenon, I think that thing is sort of like learning the kung fu components. In different kinds of situations you can reconstruct it and take the actual best decision to win in that situation.

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