Historical thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci maintained a set of standing questions they were interested in, and when encountering new observations or mental models, they would apply these existing questions as lenses to see if the new tools yielded insights into their standing questions.
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“finding historically like seven questions he was interested in any given time anytime he had a new observation or he had a new mental model or a new medical technique for a new idea for physics or something this one was learning he would um apply a lens over the new engine”
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Sketch on Concepts of Structuring Knowledge - (Roam Internal Training Video)— Conor White-SullivanCreated: 8/13/2026, 7:46:12 AM
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