@kurt

the more you know about one thing the easier it becomes to see everything through it we spend our lives becoming experts in one way of thinking and then try to explain the entire world with it but the world isn’t divided into disciplines the most interesting discoveries often come from combining things that nobody thought belonged together sometimes knowing more about one thing makes you see less of everything else

people are so obsessed with how sophisticated a solution is that they forget nobody actually cares people just want their problems solved without having to think about who solves them or how

people are so spoiled by human progress they think prosperity is the natural state of the world for most of history your biggest problems were finding enough food and keeping your children alive now we have clean water antibiotics electricity and supermarkets full of food and people talk about how terrible modern life is we’ve become so accustomed to the greatest improvements in human history that we think they’re the bare minimum

someone will spend 20 years in a career they hate because theyre too embarrassed to admit they didn’t know wtf at 18