Self I grew up the kind of kid who is drawn to abstract ideas. A decade ago I dreamed of becoming a writer, maintained a blog in my native language, and saw the literary life as the highest pursuit worthy of the human intellect. That came to a stop when I dropped out of academia and found myself having to contend for the first time with earning a real living. But I was not forced out of the world of thinking by the weight of dull existence. I was lured out of it because that’s when I discovered the world of actions - I realized I could spend my days actually doing things, instead of just thinking about things - how interesting! Doing things reveals new information in a way that reading about things doesn’t. Doing things influences how other people do things with a potency that simply trying to persuade cannot compete with. Instinctively I immediately grasped that the articulated world is but a small fraction of the lived world. Plato has got his cave flipped - actions are what is real and primordial, ideas are the shadowy representations.
Why I write this blog
Why I write this blog
Why I write this blog
Self I grew up the kind of kid who is drawn to abstract ideas. A decade ago I dreamed of becoming a writer, maintained a blog in my native language, and saw the literary life as the highest pursuit worthy of the human intellect. That came to a stop when I dropped out of academia and found myself having to contend for the first time with earning a real living. But I was not forced out of the world of thinking by the weight of dull existence. I was lured out of it because that’s when I discovered the world of actions - I realized I could spend my days actually doing things, instead of just thinking about things - how interesting! Doing things reveals new information in a way that reading about things doesn’t. Doing things influences how other people do things with a potency that simply trying to persuade cannot compete with. Instinctively I immediately grasped that the articulated world is but a small fraction of the lived world. Plato has got his cave flipped - actions are what is real and primordial, ideas are the shadowy representations.