I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
How This Was MadeArrow's 'learning by doing' predicts productivity gains naturally diffuse through an industry as experience accumulates, but the new item's Junto-based model suggests AI adoption momentum actively resists this diffusion, concentrating in peer networks rather than spreading through standard learning curves
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Why some people mow a lawn better than othersArrow's 'learning by doing' framework explains the core finding: skill variation in CPP performance reflects accumulated embodied practice, not just innate ability
ParametronThe parametron exemplifies Arrow's 'learning by doing' thesis - Goto's invention spawned an entire Japanese computing ecosystem (PC-1 etc.), with knowledge accumulating through the act of building, exactly the mechanism Arrow's 1962 paper theorized
The Economics of Recursive Self-ImprovementArrow's 1962 'Learning by Doing' economics paper provides foundational theory for the feedback loops and returns-to-experience that the recursive self-improvement analysis explicitly builds upon
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