Everything is process and one must incorporate refreshing and rejuvenating aspects to this process. The mind rarely gets a break until we make time and space to provide one
People need to be meditating as an essential form of spirit hygiene. I find blasphemous articles with bombastic and outlandish claims to be quite unhelpful.
I too wonder about the sustainability of the Mexico City paradigm. When land becomes precious, we re-pave and re-evaluate. In Japan (On the island of Japan), space is precious, if you are going to build it, it better last, and it better make sense to keep around. Until we reach a limit on land area, it seems that slime-mold-esque endless sprawl is somewhat inevitable. I do wish the opposite, that we would heed the lesson before driving off the proverbial cliff.
This is delightful and well-stated. I don't think a timeline is necessary, but I do think a sense of urgency "get the prototype done as cleanly and quickly as possible" is helpful. Create an exhibition of the smallest novel component. And there you have it, progress.
The bread I can buy to satisfy hunger is certainly not a delusion. Currency is an abstraction for negotiating and prioritizing satisfaction of needs. Yes, it's very blurry, but delusion seems to be quite a stretch if you ask me. Of course, many hold this view these days because we can print money et cetera, but there are still fundamentals at play such as needs, wants, resources, surplus, production, means of production, the harvest, and so forth. These are not delusional things, these are non-negotiable aspects of any civilization and any human collective as an inextricable part of the surrounding environment and availability of and access to resources. What do you reckon
On average 20.6 years between the innovations I listed. Consider that since the inception of BTC (and ETH) there might not have been any actual innovations that would fit this rubric.
I think you're missing a lot of information from your article and your thinking. The creative limits of a new organizational strategy for information are nonexistent. That is, when the vacuum-tube was invented, no one foresaw the integrated circuit. When the personal computer was made possible, no one really foresaw the internet. When the internet was spawned, nobody really foresaw large companies dominating the mental associativity with the 7th and 8th letters of the alphabet. So it goes, things are not easily forecast-able. I agree with your first point. Your second point is where you lose me. Consider that lots of "value" is actually encased in digital content. Anything that we use to negotiate, sell, buy, barter, trade, or exchange valued digital assets, itself begins to have value by virtue of facilitating the exchange. In this way of thinking, while a credit card company does not produce anything new, it still provides new value to the equation or scenario by enabling exchanges that were previously not possible. Now, you can ask, quite intelligently, "what are the maximized branches like for exchanges that are now possible via decentralized ledger that previously were not?" And there you might find a cap represented as a ratio of real creativity. I define creative outputs as the fruits of mother nature and the fruits of the human mind. I define value in an ambiguous way, or ambivalent way, because the getting-of-the-food and the consuming-of-the-food are distinctly different modes of value, but culminate in the same process of satisfying a lack, want, or need. I could ramble on, if you have a question about anything I've mentioned please do not hesitate.
One trick I have for taking lots of notes rapidly is the following:
Say somebody says a long string "The Cap Theorem is Consistency, Availability, and Partitioning," you write down the initial letters with space to come back and complete the words: T__ c_____ t_____ i_ c_______ a______ p_____. Once you have the initial letters down the hardest part is done. For very long sentences you want to remember this helps a great deal because you will still remember the last several words with the hint of the first letter when you do a second pass to fill the (rest of-the-word) in.
Carry a notebook around and frequently take notes for things to look back at. The wet concrete of the brain needs frequent imprinting for success in memory/recall. One notebook for career, one notebook for side business and projects. Have tried multiple notebooks, 2 seems to be the balance for me. Different colors. Keep colors consistent over the months/years of getting second and third ones.
In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, one of the things you had to attest to at death was that you had "never willfully blocked the flow of a river" -- makes sense given the prominent importance of the Nile. With respect to your comments, I think that temporary logjams and permanent human dams are not comparable.
Let's agree that spending 3 minutes typing an essay asking "what does it do" could be better spent actually evaluating the product and reporting back with info for the rest of us