some Philosophical aphorisms & critical reflectionS
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Warfare as we used to know it is outdated, in future fights to be intellectual and ideological, prepare your mind, minimalism and critical thinking to be useful.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”
Alternative forms of societal organization, such as decentralized, small interconnected groups will emerge.
Capitalism, a fuel for concentration of power, is temporary, will be reformed in future too.
Normal people usually are just tired and going lazy crazy;
The scale, that is the problem… anything overgrown concentrated can be bad, overgrown big bad to be avoided in future times.
Universal income will appear most likely only when the number of unemployed will be really high, when all this automation and everything else will be everywhere.
Tech challenges society, hard but for better.
Progress is not always straightforward, don’t blindly believe in anything new, neomania often leads to nothing but noise.
Simple, stable, practical things win. Observe critically. Progress is resilience, not speed.
Over time, only robust solutions will endure, as complexity fades away.
I just randomly hit my elbow hard
No money in the whole world would save me from this
And from much more
But the right wise view of the world could at least save my soul
Life goes on…
Effortlessness is the key to good quality style. It’s not just about order and neatness, but also about feeling free and unburdened.
Top quality always feels easy and simple. And it is, but remember the attempts, values, focus, and experience lying behind that.
With that freedom of movement, you are getting up and through.
A balanced, intelligent mind can handle almost any challenge effectively, but it needs time to adjust.
A collaboration between such minds is even more beneficial.
To allocate energy well, focus on intellectual and humanistic aspects, use these as a foundation to apply open-minded, critical thinking.
Everything will turn out well then.
End-road values like cults of power or money lead to disaster.
Don’t be blind about evil, fight against it actively.
The key to success is to find an easy approach and enjoy the process. Restrictions and forcing only work for a limited time frame.
How to read more books: If a book is too boring, take another one.
Find something good in whatever you do, it’s a right to joy, otherwise no flow, no signal
I like the idea of Bitcoin (banks and money are hell things) but it’s too idealistic for our current, still quite savage world stage.
Someday, it’s likely to be compromised by quantum computers or just banned by governments.
Now it’s clear we’re at the end of a 30-40+ year era of relative peace; after seeing how easily some dictators can enslave the masses, all countries are likely to put more effort into restrictions, weapons, and security.
As human beings, the way we used to know ourselves is just a temporary state.
There’s so much dirt and incompetency hidden inside most of us; the key to human nature is to overcome ourselves, to find and develop a better version.
It all starts from newborns. You have to constantly learn and fight for new horizons; that’s obviously very natural, and when it’s natural, you’re naturally happy.
By nature we programmed to overcome ourselves with hard work on quality.
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” – Niels Bohr
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