I was watching some classic basketball today — ‘81 NBA finals — and I noticed that the announcers back then had much more limited information, talking points, and general information regarding the data about the game than modern announcers.

and then I thought “hmm, it seems like as baseline knowledge of a field gets more complicated, the assumptions around what people know also rise in their baselines”.

in other words, the more complicated a body of knowledge becomes, the more people assume newcomers know when they discuss that body of knowledge. the bar is being ever raised.

something to think about, I guess, as the impending slopocalypse grows closer.

the ocean of information available to any given person is enormous, and growing constantly, all the time, every day.

eventually the complexity cycle will have to complete, and we’ll rotate back to be Simple about Things.

I wonder what that will look like.

hopefully we retain the signal and only cut the noise.

time will tell, I suppose.