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FIELD NOTE #053 Familiarity Is A Form Of Blindness
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Familiarity Is A Form Of Blindness
The most experienced person in the room sees the most.
They also see the least.
Expertise is a filter.
It makes complexity manageable by compressing experience into patterns.
But compression is lossy.
Occasionally, something important gets classified as something already understood.
Then a newcomer asks the obvious question everyone else has stopped asking.
Why do we do it this way?
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This episode examines "Expertise Blindness" — the progressive narrowing of perception that accompanies deepening knowledge — and the brief window before familiarity turns fresh observation into background.
The portable question:
"What would someone seeing this for the first time notice that we have stopped noticing?"
The expert stopped noticing. The newcomer had not yet learned what to ignore.
Field Note #053.
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