data & philosophy

Wisdom is how to live. It is the residue of mistakes, metabolized by time and reflection. It can’t be rushed, and it can’t be copy-pasted. It is an embodied—as in felt in the body—experience, guidance from the inside.

Clustering mirrors the human search for belonging and shared identity. It recalls Aristotle’s concept of essence—grouping things by what they are at their core. But it also invites critique from existentialist and post-structuralist thinkers: what if similarity is always contextual, mutable, and constructed? Wittgenstein’s “family resemblances” cha... See more

panta rhei—“everything flows.”

Early Buddhist thought stresses anicca, the impermanence of all conditioned phenomena. Clinging to fixed representations (views, models, identities) leads to dukkha (suffering). Recognizing impermanence invites adaptability and mindful responsiveness—paralleling how data-driven systems should remain attuned to change rather than stubbornly preservi... See more

Martin Heidegger, in Being and Time, argued that human existence (Dasein) is fundamentally temporal: our being is stretched between past (facticity), present (thrownness), and future (projection). Time isn’t merely a succession of “nows” but the horizon within which meaning arises. This perspective reminds us that data points acquire significance o... See more