Philosophical aphorisms & critical reflectionS
A competent philosophy is the religion of the person of future
Dogmatism is irrelevant, it just doesn’t move
Ask questions and find answers. Make mistakes and improve
The universal answer is the human and the community
What is a technology without us? Ain’t nature already tried enough to create something truly wonderful?
The main answer lies precisely in the people, their freedom, and the beauty of their development
Disasters and chaos are part of evolution.
Always be prepared for the worst. Face bad calmly, and know how to accept as well.
If something happens, it always happens with a cause, let it be. Bad things eventually would not be able to pass time’s test.
Sometimes you just accept and move forward.
Keep mind clear and cold.
Truth may not pay much today, but over a long distance, it always wins.
Whatever music style you create, if it’s cool, original and not banal, then it’s great and deserves to live
Half-broken harmony breaks hearts and works farther than straight perfection
Pure pleasure is always a bit illusionary
Today, I prefer major for ambient and minor for everything else
Create a methodology to organize an efficient workflow amid chaos by aligning it with your abilities and environment. Focus on positive aspects to ensure sustainability.
Incorporate small strategies. For example, schedule activities like exercise or work tasks immediately after daily routines like breakfast or a shower. Reading books while charging your phone or watches works well as example.
Base your self-management system on positive incentives—a proactive agenda—rather than prohibitions. Understand why you enjoy tasks and are motivated to do them.
Begin the day with high priorities: tackle the most important and difficult tasks first, saving less critical ones for later.
Occasionally, you may need to exert willpower, but usually, applying positive-based management is more effective.
‘Perhaps someday the interception of a person’s attention without his permission will be regarded as a form of theft”
Own you time, find ways to organize it, or they will steal it
Central way to get happiness is to understand unhappiness
It is not the sophisticated intellectual who wins people, but more often those who are more lucky, those who managed to convince folks in a simple way
The one who is more cunning and assertive, who is bolder, wins. Sophisticated mind is not a first thing to work with normal people. It’s great if he’s smart at the same time, but a thin mind tends to slow down the movement a lot.
An intellectual need to be able to be brazen, especially when working with the masses
Who is really smart must accept this reality and adapt correspondingly
What is a real thing of a creator is that to be able to feel the signal among the endless stream of mess, to see and predict that reflection, to hear the one, to choose a perfect combination, to find an order, a solution
Or with style… to be able to cut, to remove unnecessary.
That’s what is valued, that is what important for the people when they need the creator.
Not the stream, but its filtering, after all, the understanding of the flow itself.
You need to be able to distinguish noise around you
Things that are better not to notice all kinds of small percentage fluctuations: what’s output makes little game in general, there is a lot of such
And there are also things that are better to ignore directly
Things/People/Data/Events/Whatever
Focus on signal but know the noise, our energy is limited, spent it accurately
“High wages make leisure too expensive.”
Leisure is needed but of a good quality; for example, without consumption or anything hard; you just give free space to mind to explore
Freeform mind drifting is an essential part of a well trained understanding
“You should not just be the best, you should also be the luckiest”
Be able to accept what you have.
You can’t control luck but you can ignore it and move by your own.
Plans to be build upon the worst.
Things from some age that you feel are still relevant, they are usually really better
Everything new still has to pass the time test
Wars rarely end with an absolute winner. All sides usually lose far more than they gain.
Post industrial “homo sapiens” were not supposed for that, it’s a big step backwards, only weak places of complicated social mistakes lead there, usually it’s just about poor managed authority.
Resort to physical fight only as a last measure of protection.
Warfare as we used to know it is outdated, in future fights to be intellectual and ideological, prepare your mind, minimalism and critical thinking to be useful. Nature always needs some movement and rotation.
After capitalism collapses, human brain to be most valued resource out there, nothing be better than a team of geniuses. But that requires a specific, well prepared environment, a next step.
Money and tech are empty values without people, this decaying era folks blind to see real gold is between them.
You can’t truly grow if you never (honestly) admit when you’re wrong and if you never genuinely accept the mistakes you make.
An advanced system cannot be just modeled just like a plan, it can only evolve on its own through experiential understanding.
Good quality resides in the absence of the unnecessary.
More experience and observation of facts, not theories, opinions, or hopes.
Stay neutral and as cold as possible; let excess energy only go in positive directions. Never start a fight—only fight back for protection.
Be critical and seek facts and truth, not rumors or opinions
Remember, they intentionally fill people with hate because hateful people are easier to manipulate.
When you hate, you lose control, it destroys you.
It isn’t worth it. A good technique: remember “you become weaker when you hate”, and “true evil is rare”; often it’s more about world’s complexity and presence of corrupted cultural code among people.
Real power is flexible and silent.
Honesty is needed to achieve something truly good.
Otherwise, how can you admit to yourself that you were wrong or made mistakes in order to grow? Improvement always involves growth.
No matter how much something may dazzle you, if its essence is dishonest—prone to lying and self-deception—then its potential for good is low, and its future is limited.
Honesty opens the way for growth and true mental flexibility.
A lack of honesty and focus on truth can ruin even naturally talented minds.
Don’t be afraid to admit your mistakes, to see the unpleasant parts. That way, you can fix them and improve yourself.
And keep it simple.
The cultural code of gigantic organizations tends to corrupt over time; a massive system gravitate to oppress people, loosing quality a lot. In a herd, you become lame.
On a large scale, under weak minds, it’s unbalanced. Resistance can be costly for many.
Crisis upon crisis; people to find truth among them.
With all the new technologies—starting from electricity to advanced encoding techniques—we now have access to vast amounts of information.
However, this information does not yet constitute knowledge (which is tested experience that can be repeated and valued for human or natural growth) nor feeling (a pathway to knowledge and meaningful experience, such as through art).
To achieve these, all this data must still be processed at a high level within the human mind.
In this century, the key to success in science and business lies in inventing and predicting ways to efficiently process and manage the big data generated by globalization and technology. This massive amount of information can lead to valuable solutions if one can navigate it effectively.
The trick, however, is not to become a computer as they taught as previous but to actualize human thing.
Anything a computer can learn to do, a computer will do. But still human selects, human consumes.
A custom passage from a random book I stumbled upon recently:
”The transition of power from locally organized production to global financial capital has been occurring for quite some time, but recent events have accelerated and intensified this phenomenon.
Digitalization did not directly ensure globalization, but it certainly did not hinder it, and one of the side effects of this process is the trend toward polarization, both in terms of individual incomes and market monopolies.
For most of modern history, about two-thirds of the money earned in developed countries has generally been paid in the form of wages.
The remaining third consists of interest, dividends, or other forms of rent received by capital owners. Since 2000, the amount paid to capital has significantly increased, while the share of wages has decreased, meaning that the real wages of most people have either remained the same or even decreased”
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” – Niels Bohr
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