Last Saturday, I went to a massive bookstore near Oxford Street. Leadership. Economics. Philosophy. Thousands of titles. All about 'knowing more'... And then, hidden in the back —  a tiny shelf called: EPISTEMOLOGY I laughed. Thousands of books telling us 'what to think'. On 'what to do'. But almost none asks the deeper question: "How do we even know WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW?" That one shelf said everything about the times we live in... A history from epistemology to expertise: 1/ Socrates: Trained people how to think (not what to think) 2/ Middle Ages: From inquiry → into mastery of doctrine (later turned into indoctrination) 3/ Scientific Revolution: Gave us methods that harden expertise into dogmas (turning Science into scientism, e.g. Economics) ...and now 'expertise' is everywhere —  consultants, frameworks, thought leadership. Even in how we use AI. But here’s the problem no one talks: When the old world stops existing, YOUR EXPERTISE BECOMES A BURDEN More answers don’t help if you’re asking the wrong questions. >>The original purpose of philosophy wasn’t to hand out answers. It was to cultivate the capacity for new seeing. New categories. New ways of orienting when the old ones break. --- Expertise is important. But it can’t replace epistemology. And right now, we’re at an inflection point... >>Expertise alone can’t keep up with today's life transitions and technological shocks. What people need now is map-making again: → the courage to invent new language → to live with generative ambiguity → to trust in "I don't know" That’s the work of Rare Dots. Not another "Clear Thinking" book. But a scaffolding to build new coordinates. A new orientation when the old world stops existing. That's what we will dive into this Friday: 'When Experts Panic, Epistemologists Step In' ⟶ Friday Sep 12 ⟶ 5 PM UK / 12 PM ET ***(update) REGISTRATION IS NOW FULLY BOOKED*** For future calls, leave your details here: https://lnkd.in/e-ZQ_Y_E | 20 comments on LinkedIn