Jul 1 non-hehe
to hear the soundless sound
is to hear the person and not the words,see without focus, absorb the shape and the shadow.
is to hear the person and not the words,see without focus, absorb the shape and the shadow.
when systematic frameworks become more real than actual problems. People apply complex solutions because their mental models demand them, not because reality requires them. The abstraction becomes truth; the tool becomes the purpose. They're solving for the elegance of their system rather than the messiness of what's actually broken.
"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." - leslie lamport
emotion speaks orthogonally - in speech's shadows, not its light. The feeling-self embeds in structure, not content. reading requires seeing the whole act as trace, not just words as cargo.
certain abstract phenomena are accessible only through direct, individual encounter. Multiple people can authentically experience the same underlying reality, but these experiences fundamentally resist collective synthesis - not from subjective interpretation, but because the phenomenon's nature precludes shared understanding.
Declining crude oil EROI creates persistent inflationary pressure across all currencies. As energy extraction costs approach energy yield, the real resource base supporting monetary claims shrinks, establishing an unavoidable inflationary floor that monetary mechanisms cannot eliminate - only temporarily offset.
you could tell the Romans everything we know and it would still take about the same time to get back to where we are now. technology forms irreducible dependency graphs - advanced tools require prerequisite manufacturing capabilities, refined materials need processing infrastructure, and synthesis methods must be built sequentially. Even with complete knowledge transfer, material constraints and manufacturing prerequisites create unavoidable temporal bottlenecks that resist acceleration.