Innovations happen in one field and lie dormant for years, decades, sometimes centuries before someone in a completely different field realizes the answer to their problem has been sitting in a journal the whole time. In every case, the same thing is happening: knowledge exists in Field A, a problem exists in Field B, and nobody connects them for 40 years. Instead of the Viterbi algorithm being invented seven times because seven fields can't see each other, Ladder surfaces the first solution to every field with a matching problem structure.
Author: daniel@danielmiessler.com (Daniel Miessler)
Published at: 2026-04-05 21:00:00
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