Hold a latticework of models from many disciplines — a single-discipline mind bends every problem to fit its one tool.
The hammer-and-nail line is not a joke about stupidity, it is a warning about competence. The specialist is dangerous precisely because their tool genuinely works.
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← requiresWorking memory holds about four chunks, not four items — expertise enlarges what fits in a slot rather than adding slots.
The cognitive reason a latticework is worth building. Models are chunks — holding several disciplines at once is only possible if each compresses into a single unit, which is what learning the model does.
← requiresNotes that are never extracted die in the container that holds them, and the input loop feels like success the whole time.A latticework cannot assemble itself from ideas still trapped in the books that produced them. Extraction into a shared store is the physical step that makes cross-disciplinary connection possible at all.
← has exampleSolve for what would guarantee failure and refuse to do that, instead of solving directly for success.Inversion is the single most portable tile in the latticework, borrowed from algebra and applied everywhere.