Life
philosophical content pointing us towards living a meaningful life
Life
We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
The textbook definition of a question is a sentence used to seek information, but it feels borderline criminal to reduce something as foundational as a question to something transactional.
some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same
MargaretC and
We learn the same lessons over and over, forgetting and remembering, forgetting and remembering. That’s not failure — it’s life! It’s being human
Have the will to act.
-Batman Begins (2005)
Bad shit is always gonna happen. It’s how you respond to it that matters.
Many of the best quality-of-life improvements seem to have known costs but unknowable benefits.
