The Childhood Exploration Edition

On Alison Gopnik, local optimums, and knowing when to hone in.

Noah here. A few years ago, I wrote about the explore/exploit tradeoff, a computer science concept that identifies the challenges between solving for breadth versus depth.

The tradeoff is about understanding the give and take between exploration—going wide, trying new things—and exploitation, or going deep into one thing. Explore/exploit is a big area of…