Everything Is Connected
exploring how there are no fields, topics, or silos - everything is connected
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Everything Is Connected
Complexity basically means that everything is circuitous and hard to understand. Hard to understand means that the things that lead to the things you want aren't the things you want. They're very complex. So you need to do things like work on vacuum tubes to get to computers because vacuum tubes are in the first computers, even though vacuum tubes... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Greatness Without Goals
The good listener: someone who has learnt how to find bits of themselves in the experiences of others.
– Alain de Botton
– Alain de Botton
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A knowledge base that looked for new connections within itself would be less of a memory system, as notes conventionally are, and become more of a generative tool. Generative tools are exciting because they contain real infinites that invite endless play and exploration.
Linus Lee • Knowledge tools, finite and infinite | thesephist.com
It also helps to travel in topic space. You'll have more new ideas if you explore lots of different topics, partly because it gives the angle grinder more surface area to work on, and partly because analogies are an especially fruitful source of new ideas.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Embracing the risk of losing everything means learning that our self-worth and identity are not solely tied to the success or failure of our ventures.