Our hardware is a body shaped by genes over a long evolution. Our software is a set of ideas, memes, handed down across generations. Yet we live in an information age that reinvents itself daily, and that leaves each of us to face all of it alone.
I want to understand the rules of the world, open up new space, gather resources, turn ideas into reality, and create and build.
I want to keep observing the world and myself, and to notice how desire, inertia and rules shape my choices.
I want to build my own judgment, abilities and foundation for living, and to bear the consequences of my choices.
When the promises of another shore are no longer credible, and the world shows its absurdity, I still choose to live in earnest, one breath at a time.
The posts here are at different stages of growth: Seedling, Budding, Evergreen. I come back to add to them, prune them, and sometimes replant. Drop by often.
“We must cultivate our garden.” — Voltaire, Candide