Thursday, February 19, 2009

Back to basics

It turns out that my football coach was always right... If we look at the past few years and think about the lessons we should learn, one of the core ones is this: STICK TO THE FUNDAMENTALS! If the foundations aren't good, there's no point in building a house on top of them. Now the million (or should we say several billion?) dollar question is how do we actually remember to do this.

Even very recently, I still see events which trigger the question: why so hasty and why these rash actions? Where are the fundamentals?

Monday, February 09, 2009

X is right, works, clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit

People aren't complex. People are simple. The world isn't hard to understand inherently, but the difficulty arises from us artificially creating opacity ourselves and not even always understanding it. We create endless amounts of artifacts and build monuments to ourselves, but lose touch with everything else and just sink into the bottomless pit of quicksand. It's ironic how reaching for the stars never results in anything permanent, no clarity and no fulfillment. It's all a big joke, but seeing it may at times be difficult. Some people might argue that it's drama, but it's all a satire. Embrace the dark humor and find solace and terra firma in that, since the castles in the clouds are merely that: not there.

Find X.