WIL yesterday #3

A good thing about arguing and then making up is that the next time it happens you l that everything will be alright when you wake up the next morning.

You might not feel it the moment while arguing, but you know it on an unconscious level.

Yet again

Again upon entering the United States I am welcomed by helpful strangers.

It is great speaking the same language and culture.

Good to be home.

A cool thought about evolution...

... is that it programmed us for to keep improving.

But that also comes bundled with loss of perspective. We get anxious when today is lightly worse than yesterday without seeing the big beautiful picture. That is sad.

BUT evolution also gave us reason. With this power we can know our bias and work to overcome it.

A case for AI being under-appreciated

Anthropromorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to objects.

We do this all the time - in our thinking, stories, jokes, and dreams. And often times we don't realize we are doing it.

Even many things we think of as fundamental are in reality not facts about the world so much as they are facts about humans.

I think there is a Shakespeare quotes that goes something like "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Superbowl First World Problems

What am I afraid of?

Not standing for anything and have my decisions driven by tomorrow and jealousy.

That seems like a bad outcome.

Essay time

I have to write an essay.

The thinking is that it is the tool for really learning and advancing your understanding of a topic.

For the first time it feels manageable...
...but then again I have not started.

WIL #3 - Energy

Building things is fun. Thinking is fun. Being able it appropriate it all while it is happening is a lot of fun.

WIL #2 - All the wrong places.

What I learned is that I am motivated and blown away by all the wrong things.
Maybe not wrong; just unexpected and nonconventional.

I may have found out what I will spend my professional life working towards recently...
in a cartoon.

And today I ran in to a buddy whom I don't know well off the basketball courts.
He chews gum while he plays, is all tatted up, and definately gets hair lined-up rather than cut.

Holding his newborn in one arm, playing with his dog with the other, he seemed really disgustingly, genuinely, perminantly happy today.

I had imagined him struggling through the working day, hitting the courts at six every night, partyinig on the weekends, and generally barely holding on to sanity as it seems so many are.

I seem to have been wrong and have learned something.