The goal isn't to adopt a few new pattern rules or to memorize some new labels. The goal is to have so many pattern rules and so many labels and be aware of so many worldviews that they swirl together and allow you to become naive all over again. To be naive is to abandon your hard-earned worldview. It means seeing the world without prejudice and accepting it as it is, as opposed to the way you're expecting it to be.
—Seth Godin
Eat the next apple
People who clutch at mystery underestimate the complexity of the universe (for mystery is complexity unparsed). Closer unknowns must be comprehended before further unknowns can be encountered. Refusing to examine an unknown is as silly and self-limiting as refusing to eat an apple because it will then be gone, while standing within an endless orchard.
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