You'll never be enough

I don’t know everything. I never will. And I’ve made peace with that.

It took me years to realize this: our ignorance will always outweigh our knowledge. It’s not a flaw—it’s the default human condition. The world is vast. Design is infinite. So I stopped chasing completeness. I stopped fearing the things I didn’t know.

Instead, I built confidence in something deeper—my problem solving process.

Design isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about knowing how to look. It’s not about memorizing every type of fish in the ocean. It’s about learning how to fish—anywhere, anytime.

People say, “Don’t give a fish, teach fishing.” But what is fishing in design?

To me, it’s the meta-skill of figureoutability. It’s information foraging. Pattern sensing. Systems thinking. Root cause diving. Insighting. Synthesis. Hypothesis building. Testing. Tuning. Storytelling.

I may not know a domain. I may not speak the jargons. But drop me into any unfamiliar territory—artificial intelligence, fintech, agriculture, healthcare, even quantum science—and I’ll fish. I’ll learn the currents. I’ll read the ripples. I’ll find the patterns beneath the surface.

Design is not what you know. It’s how you approach the unknown.

So if you feel you don’t know enough, welcome to the club. None of us do.

But if you learn to fish like a designer, you’ll never be without a catch.