Janko's braincell depo

peanuts

when you eat peanuts
standing by the counter
in "just one more, just one more" mode
... peanuts taste 3x better

lossless

turning reality/experience/wisdom into words is not a lossless compression

alan watts

The question "what should we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If the problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away dakness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

Alan W. Watts - The wisdom of insecurity

kid

kid has to be bored
so he can learn to be creative *

kid has to be left without care
so he can learn to take care of himself

kid must not be always encouraged
so he can find his own courage

kid must sometimes be pushed
so he learns to push back 

kid must sometimes be wrong
so he knows how to accept it and learn from it

at some point
kid has to be utterly failed by his mommy and daddy
so he learns noone is really right

so he, has to start using his own mind!

* creating is doing something out of nothing
to be creative you need a state of nothing 

use your own mind, don't read this as the truth because it is not.
I try hard not to, but I make many mistakes with my kids,
a lot of them, because I try not to, too hard ...

nothing undone

I was searching for something related to Masanobu Fukuoka of "Do-Nothing Farming" that affected Permaculture and came to this beautiful chapter of Tao Te Ching..

In the pursuit of Knowledge,
every day something is added.
In the practice of the Way,
every day something is dropped.

Less and less do you need to force things,
until finally you arrive at non-action.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
-Lao Tzu

become stupid

ideology greed

some governance systems are based on ideology,

but you have to constantly pump people up with it,

and not let them get distracted,

and it will all fizzle at one point ...

capitalism is more robust, because it's based on greed,

and greed is the One thing already hardcoded in croc brain of Every person,

one thing you can count on ...

but crocs make a really poor society,

so is there anything else?

two ways

I was scanning over an old book recently, and came to a simple scentence that connected many missing links for me:

"Really, any question can be tackeled in two ways: philosophically or totally, intelectually or existentially"

get hurt

if there's no risk of getting hurt

you're still doing the tutorial

move alive

most things need to progress to stay alive

(sharks, companies, love... you)