{"id":690,"date":"2026-04-18T05:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/context-is-that-which-is-scarce-marginal-revolution-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:24:48","slug":"context-is-that-which-is-scarce-marginal-revolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/context-is-that-which-is-scarce-marginal-revolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Context is that which is scarce&#8221; &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>3. One correspondent from a successful company wrote me:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c- I\u2019ve been onboarding ~5 people every two weeks for my team.<br \/>\n\u2013 The number of them that actually learn all the important stuff in under a month is zero. The number of them that have a self-guided strategy to learn what is relevant is almost zero.<br \/>\n\u2013 Remember these are people&nbsp;with fancy college&nbsp;degrees, that passed a hard interview, and are getting paid $X00k!<br \/>\n\u2013 I\u2019m now spending entire days writing \/ maintaining an FAQ, producing diagrams, and having meetings with them to answer their questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. Ever wonder about the vast universe of critically acclaimed aesthetic masterworks, most of which you do not really fathom?&nbsp; If you dismiss them, and mistrust the critics, odds are that you are wrong and they are right.&nbsp; You do not have the context to appreciate those works.&nbsp; That is fine, but no reason to dismiss that which you do not understand.&nbsp; The better you understand context, the more likely you will see how easily you can be missing out on it.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2022\/02\/context-is-that-which-is-scarce-2.html\">marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2022\/02\/context-is-that-which-is-scarce-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3. One correspondent from a successful company wrote me: \u201c- I\u2019ve been onboarding ~5 people every two weeks for my team. \u2013 The number of them that actually learn all the important stuff in under a month is zero. The number of them that have a self-guided strategy to learn what is relevant is almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,27,19],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-abstraction","tag-context","tag-knowledge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}