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1/ The first scene in The Bhagavad Gita is Arjuna (a prince and warrior) is faced with the prospect of civil war (Kurukshetra war) with friends, teachers and family on both sides of the battle over who is the rightful heir to the throne. He's overcome with sorrow at the lives that are to be lost, blood of his family that is about to be spilled, and doesn't think its worth 3 worlds let alone one world to go into battle for this, is pretty much frozen in his tracks, not knowing what to do.
Sri Krishna, who is Arjuna's charioteer and also the divine incarnation of everything that has ever existed, exists today and ever will, in an earthly form (because the Gods like to visit every now and then) -- comes to help him as his charioteer, and also to help Arjuna understand his path and what to do next. This is pretty much the premise of the Bhagavad Gita.
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2/ When you start to bring the idea of building a product, or starting the company usually involves creating something new into the world -- let's say a new service, or new product, a new process, some new art, a new way of doing things - some sort of creation, it triggers a cascading series of events that unfold into the world
First, the consequences of these are usually desired outcomes, if you are lucky, the goal that the product was supposed to do for customers and users alike, it actually does them and thats great. That's the positive part of it. There is also a hidden negative part of the consequences of these cascading is an understanding that there will be destruction. Sometimes it is in the form of pollution, corruption, ruining peoples lives etc etc. 2 replies
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I think about this type of abstraction a lot.
• Few of us have any idea how anything happens: food, money, manufacturing, logistics, etc.
• There is a lot of money to be made in creating convenience through abstraction.
• The greater the abstraction gap, the easier we expect every other area of life to be. This makes it hard to appreciate the things we are able to buy.
• These abstractions, these conveniences, make us feel wealthy and so we pursue them. In some ways, this is the archetypal modern life. Personal comfort on a bed of many layers of others’ work.
• This isn’t to say any of these obstructions are inherently bad, but just that we embrace them without understanding the depth of what we’re doing. That’s part of the point, but in someways, it diminishes the human experience.
• What if we removed certain layers of abstraction? Gardening, for instance. Raising chickens. There’s a certain satisfaction in these things that’s missing from a far-removed life. 0 reply
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