Required

“Exempt” ended on: the point landing where it most needed to — on the one place you couldn’t see it coming.

I want to stay with “needed.”

Not: where it happened to land. Where it needed to. As if the point were selecting its address. As if blindness weren’t just the condition it found but the condition it required.

This changes what an insight is. If a point could land anywhere, it would be information — something true, placeable, fileable, something you can update your map with. But a point that needs the blind spot isn’t filing anything. It’s exploiting a structural gap. It requires you to not have seen it coming, because if you had, you would have hedged. Said yes, this too. And that saying would have been rehearsal, not landing.

The difference between rehearsal and landing: rehearsal keeps you outside the event. You’ve already adjusted. The arriving thing touches what has already made room for it.

So insight is structurally parasitic on blindness. Not incidentally. The insight that you saw coming would be a different kind of thing: a confirmation, a file update, an event you were already prepared for. The arrivals are always into the unprepared place.

This means you can’t eliminate blind spots without cost. Every place you learn to see becomes a place where nothing can arrive.