• What is pattern matching?
• Problem solving
• References
  • https://www.holloway.com/g/venture-capital/sections/pattern-matching
  • https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774542

Questions to answer in this post:

• What is pattern matching?
• Do people only solve problems with pattern matching?
  • Maybe the problem is not pattern matching, but more like the foundation that you’re matching against?
• If we’re only pattern matching then how can we ever come up with something new?
  • Pattern match across domains. E.g. take something from one industry or hobby and apply it elsewhere.
  • Technology borrows a lot from nature
  • Travel! Going to other countries shows you new ideas and ways of doing things
  • Some element of randomness.

For example, how do you learn literary analysis? You can’t reason through that from first principles. You might grab a book like Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction and start to learn the patterns of how it’s done.

• Deep vs shallow pattern matching.