We live in the age of con and fakeness We live in the age of sales, and more sales, and more sales We witness mere symbols supplant the real thing Small wonder we are so sceptical We become sceptical We don’t want a pretty appearance to fool us We want the value “If …
Tag: Understanding
Everything is Deep (Everything is Shallow)
Everything has infinite depth Or no depth We call something “deep”, or call something “shallow” When in reality — it’s as deep as deep we are willing to put our heads Or as shallow as we need it to be A spade is a spade, is it not? A spade is a spade …
Labels Contributing Nuance (And Not Destroying Nuance)
Labels can be viewed as a layers in ontology It’s a way of organising data into categories Organisation of data yields insights Insights contribute nuance — rather than take away Labels destroy nuance if you: -start with a label (rather than the data) -then pigeonhole the data into that label, that category -and you …
The Medium and The Meaning
There’s the medium — and there’s the substance. There are words — and there’s their meaning. The meaning is the point, isn’t it? The meaning is indeed the point — however the meaning can not, and should not, be separated from the medium This is because the medium is the only proof of …
Outcomes vs Methods, Imitation vs Realness
There’s the OUTCOME you want to attain. And there’s HOW you attain that outcome. The OUTCOME is concrete . But the “HOW” is more vague The “HOW” is sometimes clear and sometimes utterly obscure, and usually partly clear and partly obscure. To get the OUTCOME you are looking for the “HOW”. You follow, IMITATE …
Self-Sceptical
You want to be self-sceptical “You should be sceptical about your own beliefs” This is absolutely basic and has been talked of over and over again You should be sceptical not just of your beliefs. That is easy. You should be sceptical of every THOUGHT which emerges in you And you should be …
We Underestimate Learning Ability, Overestimate Changing Capacity
We underestimate the extent to which we can learn. But we also overestimate the degree to which others can change. Intelligence makes you think faster, comprehend faster, learn faster. But if knowledge is fixed — then it makes no difference how fast you have learned it. Once you learned it — it’s learned. You …
Multithreading (And Learning How To Think)
Multithreading teaches you about all successful reasoning, single-threading or multi-threading the same. Successful reasoning is the same as successful travelling — it’s about successfully efficiently steadily getting from point A to point Z. A single thread has the purpose of going from point A to Z. Running multiple threads simultaneously means you’re getting multiple …
If You’re Not Learning All The Time — You’re An Ignorant Moron
We live in a complex world. To navigate in a complex system you need a detailed map. To navigate in this complex world you need a detailed understanding. To get a detailed understanding — you should be LEARNING ALL THE TIME. I’m usually very critical of the professor, the theoretician, the bookworm, the egghead, …
Explaining vs Knowing
There’s explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge Explicit knowledge is knowledge which can be readily passed, written down, coded, recorder, verbalised, conveyed… Implicit knowledge is knowledge which is difficult to convey, difficult to teach, and often difficult even to be aware of (e.g. try writing instructions on how to WALK properly, as a human being, or …