Regression planning
As the world and its system progress, many things which were formerly life skills are increasingly outsourced or automated. What would happen if we had to go back to them? Can we handle the scenario without a playbook?
Category: Life Ordinary
Certain, simple frames
My models of interaction with the world at large has helped me convert many uncertainties into risks. But they are far from robust. I realise that I cannot completely control what is thrown at me, I have to build better framing for how to react to it. Maybe that’s the way to make the uncertain, simple.
Objectivity, and the path to joy
Are we really objective when evaluating our own happiness? Maybe if one were really responding to a need, and not a want (driven by social validation or self image), one would be in the moment, and experience joy.
Finn, Tolstoy, and happy families
Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A.J. Finn’s character in The Woman in the Window says that “No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other.” Who is right?
Peak Abstraction
Our capacity to feel, imagine and visualise led us to abstractions which allowed us to communicate with each other. Even the idea of consciousness is an abstraction of complex neural interactions. Over time, abstractions have made their way into many spheres of our lives. What lies next?