Some ideas to keep coming often

• We map the world, ourselves included

• Map is not the Territory

• The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory

• Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making

The small subset of the world that an animal is able to detect is its umwelt. The bigger reality, whatever that might mean, is called the umgebung.The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entire objective reality “out there”.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Brian Eno

In the cosmos of time, we are nothing but a fart in the wind

The solution to a mediocre life is focus.

Rule of 100 : If you spend 100 hours a year which is 18 min a day one a discpline; you'll get better than 95% of the world in that discpline. Consistency is everything.

…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.