Sindhu Shivaprasad
@sindhusprasad
thinker and tinkerer curious about agentic ways of living. writing essays at readkindredspirits.com, digital gardening at sindhu.live
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- Questions are also indications of directions of curiosity. They remind me of desire paths : pathways in the grass that emerge organically from people's natural patterns of movement instead of prescribed routes. They’re such a wonderfully human example of how we like to follow impulse and intuition to find the most direct (or appealing way) to get s... See more
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
- Knowledge responds to the gravitational pull of questions: new questions, and new questions about old questions.
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
- 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.
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
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.
- Conviction is an extension of self-knowledge. It emerges from your experiences and prior conditions. To know that is to know yourself. Being someone with conviction is really just living with clarity, and everything else is downstream of this self-knowledge.
from on not living a paper-thin life
Today’s huge levels of uncertainty – climate change, inflation, the nigh-impossibility of shared societal goals, the rampant polarisation making political moderation very difficult – have truly brought out the very worst in us. Yet if uncertainty is a feature of the world, and not just a story about the limits of human knowing, then we’d better fi
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Quantum mechanics tells us that within materialism – the idea that nothing exists except matter and its movements – there are uncertainties that do not derive from our ignorance but are fundamental to matter and the laws that govern it. In this view, uncertainty is an uneradicable feature of our physical world.
from Uncertainty isn’t a human flaw, it’s a feature of the world | Psyche Ideas by Psyche
“There are 2 types of decisions: 1-way door decisions and 2-way door decisions. Be involved with the former, but less and less in the latter.” 1-way door decisions cannot be reversed, and if a mistake is made there, you’ll have to live with it for a long while, whereas with 2-way door decisions you can always go back and change path.
from 9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
“ Before you make an offer to someone, think about whether you’d like to have 10 times as many people like them in your company. ”
from 9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
“It’s better to have a hole in your org. than an asshole."
from 9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received