Arv' Musings

Everyone around you sees you only through a rather small window, and through their lens. So, take what they say with that in mind. And the people who are much further out, who don't even know you through that window - how much attention should you be paying them?

unbounded growth cannot be sustained without having either infinite resources or inducing major paradigm shifts that "reset" the clock before potential collapse occurs.

A point of view is that quintessential human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.

Obsessions and diving into something can turn into paradigm-shifting events. Not everything turns out into a great story you read about in the papers, or made into a neat movie (seen My Octopus Teacher yet?)

You don't have to stop doing anything except to stop seeing the world from the viewpoint of your own personal cravings.

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

When pure feeling is corrupted by the intellect, there is mediocrity.