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When I was a kid I remember being quite depressed when I realized that I didn’t not have enough time in a single life time to become friends with every single living human in the world, visit every single town, every city in the world, paint & write thousands of poems in one life time, fall in love a million times and … start many companies, learn every language living and dead, eat every kind of meal ever created, master all the ways, and gain all of the knowledge humanity has cultivated over centuries I get sad about this at time (still?) Yet, most of the time I feel more optimistic than I did before. There is a gut feeling that having a constraint makes it a choice I have to make. The choice puts more weight to my decisions in a liberating way. I feel more optimistic because there is gravity to my design Almost like a gravitational slingshot around the moon - helps you go farther, faster when you can use that constraint to your advantage in a way that couldn’t be done if the moon wasn’t there
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What if the constraint was not time, but the mind? This reasoning makes me think of a (perhaps naive) film I saw a few years ago, which addressed the issue of the exploitation of the mind and in which it was imagined that if human beings could use 100% of their mental potential, they could even travel in time and space.
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Ah true, but if most people get a car in a world full of horse carriages we will still get a traffic jam
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