As you learn more about a topic, you’ll get a more nuanced and balanced understanding. Capture nuances (specifications) and contradictions as such.

Paradox of knowing that you don’t know enough: Your initial understanding will, by necessity, be incomplete. Still you need to capture what you know now to think it through and expand it in the future. Having done this a couple of times, you are aware that whatever do now is imperfect. It will change, evolve, it may even be wrong.

Still you need to start somewhere.

Since the starting point is incomplete and cannot ever paint a full picture, you can spend time to flesh out the surrounding areas: Anything you can capture, you can also capture the negation or inversion of. This may not be a universal truth, but it’s a useful mindset to open a discussion with yourself on any topic.

Create Opposition not to have more tension in your life, but to make space for deviations and creative thought. “What You See Is All There Is”¹ (WYSIATI), so if you help your future self to see more – to also keep in mind the opposing opinion, the other side –, there will be even more creative thought to be had.

Therefore:

• Do have Strong Beliefs, Weakly Held. Capture what you know now to the best of your abilities. State your understanding and beliefs with clarity, but don’t attach yourself strongly to them, so you can entertain conflicting thoughts.
• There’s an Algorithmic Solution: capture opposing arguments, the pros and cons. Then also capture and express the conflict themselves. That’ll be the Two Sides and the Coin