the kids stopped waiting for heroes. no one can out-suffer them. brick by brick, they rebuild what their elders let fall, until lambs become lions and... ↓
the pasture is only as weak as the habit that tends it. the tragedy of the commons says take where taking is easy, before your neighbour does. but when the children of the farmers see the sorry remains, some squabble over the shrinking dirt, and... ↓
to sculpt is to multiply through subtraction. if you quit tomorrow, your role would be filled by someone just like you. spend a little time each day shaping the role into something your less-experienced self would have been excited about, and... ↓
negativity finds contradictions; positivity resolves them. naive optimism censors the scary parts, and pessimism just points at them. redefine both as conflict management tools, and... ↓
you get about 700k hours, and the reaper takes the rest. sleep costs 230k, work 170k, eating 28k. what survives must be protected from the little degenerate in all of us, so... ↓
a sonnet for the market. wants are whispered into its patient ear, and a price is given to those who speak; so long as hands can build and eyes can see,... ↓
whatever a system tests is what it becomes. every system evolves through three mechanisms: continual randomised novelty, tests that favour some of it, and spread of the winners. set the tests deliberately and the system marches toward your goal; leave them to chaos and... ↓
acquired tastes are proof of persistence. bitterness once signalled poison, so learning to love black coffee, whisky and the occasional cigar demonstrates a willingness to endure discomfort on the way to a reward. so... ↓
an open mind is a system, not a disposition. plans come from ideas, ideas come from explanations, and explanations stay good only inside a habitat that takes in new ones continually, filters them for signal and source, carries their context, refutes the bad and integrates the rest. build the habitat and... ↓
the picture is just one third of the art. another third is trained perception, the language of the medium. the final third is you: without lived experience, art is reduced to brushstrokes on canvas, so... ↓
mastery is reacting to ever greater nuance. protect the king, until the exception; the exception becomes a rule, and the rule spawns new exceptions. feedback is more general than what you need in the moment, so... ↓
everything you say is a foggy generalisation. we meet the world through maps of meaning, and most maps are fog: confident opinion built from headlines, hearsay and one small life. accept the fog, stop lecturing those who have cleared it, and... ↓