Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.
Category: Excerpts
The Great Silence, The Fermi Paradox
It’s an entirely new situation, emerging from the physical possibilities that will face any species that can overcome the natural interstellar quarantine of its solar system.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
The future is the past projected
For time in both “directions” is an analogical projection of the moment just experienced. i.e. the future is the past projected and so is the present. Of course, because we always begin at t=0=1, the moment just experienced is colored by all those not currently being experienced. Everything is negative or positive, relative to where […]
The Action Movie Fairy Tale
But these movies built a generation of men who are now in their 30s and 40s.
An uprising of octopi. Octopi forming a coalition of the willing at the bottom of the ocean. Going on Jeopardy but the other two contestants are octopi. Number 3 but Alex Trebek is also an Octopus Locking eyes with an Octopus at an aquarium, and in that single moment you know you will help it […]
Women and Qualifications
Beyond criticism.
Keeping Time
A link to Tversky and Kahneman.