When given a problem, we seek solutions and seek to find problems in our own history that match this one. We are implicated in our own histories, which can harm as much as benefit us. We solved X this way in the past, so we might be able to apply that to new problem Y. We assume constraints, taking as necessary what may be contingent. Because of the way we bound the problem within a domain of discourse, we miss rich signals from other nearby clusters. We can upgrade to the latest version of some software and increase capacity on some server to solve a local problem of this bug or that
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Don’t just jump into the problem, tackle what we are attempting to address
