Language provides a deep comparative sense of things we experience. Commonly I hear things like, ” I can’t keep my head above water…. It feels like I’m drowning… I’ve been thrown in the deep end… the best I can do is just tread water…” Like Nassim Taleb’s triad: Fragility, Robustness, and Antifragility, this triad would […]
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A personal failure mode for me is falling into the neo-maniacal tractor beam of finding the newest, best stuff. We all know the mode where we get fixated on something — the newest phone, Apple Vision Pro, shoes, whatever… — and it consumes our life. Stubbornness is obviously a failure mode, too (Blockbuster). So the
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I oftentimes read or listen to people smarter than I nerd out about prime numbers, and I always struggled to understand why they care so much about them, especially in a non-mathematical context. But when looking at them as an irreducible entity, carrying its own unique properties, I start to see the significance. Similarly to
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What common contexts include filters? …Coffee, HVAC systems, Instagram, engines, reports and data views, more. They’re tools to implement inclusion/exclusion rules — which presuppose a deeper purpose (keeping grounds out of morning coffee, cleaning the air we breathe, looking prettier, keeping the motor running, answering a questions about business, etc.). Harmony between openness and closed-ness
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