Category Archives: Strategy

20-Tick

Daylight

Daylight Savings

Change the clock twice a year, or else some places will need to adjust their operating hours.

Crank an Hour

Going back to permanent Standard Hours has been tried before, and failed after two years.

What is the issue about the light & night that we keep forgetting?

07-Lift

Airborne

  • Never sleep when you can float
  • Never float when you can sit
  • Never sit when you can stand
  • Never stand when you can walk
  • Never walk when you can run
  • Never run when you can fly

Wink instead of nodding. Nod instead of whispering. Whisper instead of speaking. Speak instead of writing. Write instead of brain exploding.

06-Lyrs

Complexity

Pyramid Building

This image was once used to illustrate the subject areas for our WordPress-Cupertino Meetup group. Its many Layers of Complexity, before full-site editing (FSE), was introduced in version 5.

Now, knowledge of such complexity need not bother the minds of today. Intelligence has been made artificial.

04-Musk

SpaceX

Falcon 9 (MAR 04 UTC) Crew-8
  • Psychological safety is the enemy of urgency, progress, orbital velocity.
  • Musk’s preferred buzzword is hardcore.
  • Discomfort is a good thing, a weapon against the scourge of complacency.
  • Vacations, work-life balance, days of mental rest, are not his thing. Let that sink in.

No other natural substance has such a complex aroma associated with so many contradictory descriptions; however, it is usually described abstractly as animalistic, earthy and woody or something akin to the odor of baby’s skin.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk

23-Dice

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Ground Zeros

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well.

They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness & power & beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow.

When the world was in darkness & wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it.

But when the world became bright with reason & riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.

Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they – this garden Earth, civilized & knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

18-Alim

Categorical Imperative

Mandelbrot Set

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Imagine first that the present is past, and second, that the past may yet be changed & amended.

Logotherapy by Victor Frankl

17-Fess

New Mexico

Silver City – Gateway to the Gila National Forest (3 million acres!)

Ideas are like stars; untouchable. But choose them as guides like a seafaring man on a desert of water follows them to destiny.

Carl Schurz, human

Life is a journey, keep moving. Don’t get stuck or complacent. Embrace change, learn from experiences, and constantly move forward towards personal and professional development.

Chat GPT, machine

12-Loop

Gaming Cores

Fruit & Mushrooms – Own Rewards

Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?”

There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one’s opponent.

The same holds for human existence. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.

Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl