Data vs Intuition

the human race generates as much data in two days now as it did in all of history before the year 2003,

So before you build your second brain, build a relationship with your gut. Trust your felt-senses to guide you in discerning what is worth capturing. Get inexplicably emotional when you sit down to create. Feel your gut-feelings. Only then will you be able to create something truly valuable.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.

It took him forty years to formulate, but in the 1960s, Richardson finally found a model for this uncertainty; a paradox that neatly summarises the existential problem of computational thinking. While working on the ‘Statistics of Deadly Quarrels’, an early attempt at the scientific analysis of conflict, he set out to find a correlation between the

it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one’s own unique perspective. It doesn’t matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneously discovering and creating “yourself,”

Erst Narrationen stiften Sinn und Zusammenhang. Die digitale, das heißt numerische Ordnung ist ohne Geschichte und Erinnerung. So fragmentiert sie das Leben.