Excellent year-end thoughts Tim, thanks!

“Experts only know the one path they took.” - yes, and “expert” is an over-used term. As society gets more information overload, it’s instinctive to rely on little heuristics like “do what the expert says” or “follow the crowd”.
As Nobel Winner Daniel Kahneman defined in “Thinking Fast and Slow”, when people allow their fast thinking to crowd out the more deliberate process of capturing balanced information and deliberately making objective decisions, we suffer as individuals and as society.

Michael Lewis had a podcast about Todd Parks and Athena Health- great case study of how the “expert” is often someone you didn’t expect, and finding the expert is a valuable business skill.

My only suggestion- add one more item:

#x- Overvaluing Specialization -
job listings are trending toward absurd lists of prerequisites like “10 years doing this” or “10 years using that (some tool that defines how the work has been done)”.
Not only does this invert the hierarchy of value for traits a person brings to a company, it incents “turf protection”, resistance to change, and tends to lock in “sacred cows” over adapting and innovating.
The hard stuff to bullet point and assess- values, initiative, creativity, sincerity/transparency- will end up differentiating a company more and driving changes in shareholder value.

Have a great new year,
Brian H