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We often hear advices write everything down like it would guarantee, that information we write down - would make sense and stay in our minds forever. Another common recommendation - if You need to take a decision write down pros and cons, like if we were robots. Would it actually help us to take a decision? What about our hearts? They further we go with technology progress the more we try to treat everything as mechanical system, even ourselves. If we don’t want to do anything even though we think it’s super useful for us - we search for a million ways how to push ourselves to something that we don’t actually want to do. What if, after so many years of innovation - we are still humans? What if we still have our “hearts” that whisper to ourselves what we really want, but we want to listen to much more “rational” way of thinking? Perhaps - to really understand what do we want we’d need to sit in silence for couple of minutes and listen to ourselves and then we’d understand. ...

A Brief History Black swans exist in real life. Long ago, it was believed that they didn’t. The term “black swan” was used to describe something that was fundamentally impossible because swans were thought to be only white. What Happened Next? When it was discovered that black swans actually do exist, the meaning of the phrase changed. A “black swan” came to signify an event that no one expected could happen, but which ultimately did. ...

Resting - is such a simple thing to do. We do work - then we rest, until it’s time to do work again. Well today - we have so many tech tools that aim to make our lives better, simpler and free up a lot of time. However - perhaps Purpose of Technology is not to do that. Perhaps it’s meant, so that we could do even more “useful” stuff and forget about rest even further. Otherwise - why do we have such term “burnout” today? ...

We may have different views, whether world is functioning properly, whether climate change problem is real or not, whether Facebook is a good thing or not. However, we’d all agree that there are certain thing, that are not perfect in the world we live in. It might too complicated to comprehend Eventually - we might watch a documentary and start thinking about how many problems we have in the society. This is so complex and broad set of issues, that can easily make a person uncomfortable about world we live in. It can even make us obsessed about the things that happen in the world. ...

What is the Meaning and Purpose of Technology? Why are we racing forward at breakneck speed, conquering new heights and space, while leaving our “earthly problems” unresolved? Why was a four-legged horse the fastest mode of transport for most of human history, yet now the number of transistors in processors doubles every 24 months? Humanity has made a massive leap forward and continues to accelerate. But what have we truly achieved? Are we becoming twice as happy every 24 months? ...