An informed world view, or personal orientation, can be derived from the neurological, linguistic and behavioral consequences of acknowledging the inevitable limitations of both differences and similarities

World we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem

Writers and artists of all kinds share a pervasive trope with scientists: creative work is immensely satisfying, but the moment to moment experience of producing it can be extraordinarily unpleasant.

Embed future in today. Action bias in here and now. And weave time to unleash compounding. Small steady steps in right direction

Our ‘mind design principle’ for new and more successful mental habits is thus a simple one: because thinking is self-talk, talk and thought are linked. To change patterns of thinking, change patterns of talking.

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”.

“This is why Elon focuses so much for first principals is just because Myspace for example didn't reach Facebook levels to scale didn't mean that Facebook wouldn't be able to. If you're ruthlessly open minded, you have to be consciously willing to re-examine your assumptions. To do that, you have to try to figure out a way to not get emotionally ti

“The principles of tracking should also be applied to your life – constantly look for and acknowledge information that attunes you with your inner self” - Boyd Varty

• 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