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In this episode, I explain how to apply the multistage effect of poly systems to escape a girl’s apartment, invent a telescopic fishing rod, and come up with a folding umbrella.

If you prefer watching, you can find the YouTube video here. If reading is your thing, then enjoy the transcript below.

Welcome back to The Daily recall Show. I'm Vasili, your host.

Today we will talk the multistage effect.

The multistage effect means that if you've got a couple of mono systems, then usually you can figure out a smart way to put them together so that you get some really neat, new additional capabilities from the internal environment that emerges.

What does that mean?

Imagine that if you're a boy and you got locked in a girl's apartment.

The apartment is on the fifth floor and you must escape somehow. What do you do?

You got to make a rope from something that's in front of you. Something that you have available, right? And usually, as the tail goes, the guys use bedsheets for this. And that's exactly what the multistage fact is about. If you tie up a bunch of these individual bedsheets, you can get a good long rope. And then you can hang that rope from the window and climb down to freedom.

Another example would be a telescopic fishing rod.

When fishing just got started, a rod was basically a long branch. But it was extremely frustrating to crush through jungles and bushes with a five meter long branch.

So in the past century the guys figured out that you could have many, many small individual tubes of the same length but different diameter and then you can combine them together to get a fishing rod that has two states - compressed and extended. That's what telescopic means.

Again, the multistage effect in action; you have many individual parts that you put together in way that you get some new additional capabilities from the system.

The last example I’ll give you is a folding umbrella.

The same logic applies; it's not handy to carry a long hang around so we could use small tubes put together and make it extendable when needed.

Here's the takeaway:

The multistage effect means that usually you can decompose a large thing, a five-meter fishing rod, into smaller mono systems that you can then put together in a smart way to get new capabilities of the system.

Thank you for reading. See you tomorrow!

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