A path only makes sense looking back

Trust your gut going forward and use a method for walking: doors, fast iteration, constraints, leverage. Jobs's calligraphy class became the Mac's typography.

Decided by. Dinis, in Connect the dots backwards; his own three dots are still his to name

Where it comes from

Connect the dots backwards Connect the dots backwards (article)
Connect the dots backwards panels 1 to 3 (storyboard)

What it answers in the 2018 book

Future Self answered outline, Your CV
One way and two way doors answered outline, Life Patterns

Where it goes

Chapter Connect the dots backwards, part Before you start (drafting); topic Direction is the scarce skill: the place of highest leverage, knowing when to stop, starting without knowing the end.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Learning can be made for you, not for a mythical average student, Think with the AI; never delegate your thinking to it, The edge is now multidisciplinary, We teach maths, and music, as if to make people hate them, Generative AI lets you explore and communicate again, By reading this you are already in a small minority, and geography no longer decides, Flow and deliberate practice are the science of the zone and of learning, Know where your ideas come from: keep your own register.

Node idea:connect-the-dots-backwards in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.