Translating this into daily practice, cultivate a question cadence. Start reviews and meetings with, "What am I not seeing?" and end them with, "What would change my mind?" Feynman’s "cargo cult science" address (1974) urges us to bend over backward to reveal where we might be wrong; curiosity thrives under that honesty. The "Five Whys" technique from the Toyota Production System (c. 1950s) similarly drills down until a root cause appears.
Next, design small, cheap experiments—A/B tests, sketches, toy models—that let anomalies speak before budgets harden. Keep a "surprise log" to record deviations you can revisit later. And roam adjacent fields: breakthroughs often come from cross-pollination, where unfamiliar tools turn old problems into soluble ones. [...]
