So, a random thought this morning ,,,
What is it that you do? What am I?
Whenever I meet people who are new etc.… This is always kind of tricky question to answer because I could take it like 1 trillion different ways. Maybe the most innovative way I could respond is just by telling people that I am an innovator.
Certainly it does sound a bit presumptuous, but still… For the most part is a far more fascinating answer than the typical blah blah blah.
In fact, probably my biggest inspiration right now my life is my 4 1/2-year-old son Seneca. He actually almost 5 years old. It’s kind of insane how promptly he is able to innovate things, figure things out, all without instructions. It’s like truly trial and error and tinkering…  rather than the standard by the books.
In fact, I recall when I was a kid… Transformer toys, how I pride in myself and figuring out how to transform the things without actually reading the manual first? I would first attempt attempted with all my personal ingenuity, and then for later if I really really really had issues then I would consult the manual.
Now, having a single-family house, I’ve been having to figure out how to do certain things like issues with the hot water boiler, hot water boiler filter, leaks in the showerhead etc.… And at first, I would just try to search the solution. But actually the more intelligence strategy is just, using my brain my intelligence my intuition and physics, to figure it out.
For example, YouTube is like a double edged sword because it could be insanely helpful but it could also be totally irrelevant to your set up.
For example, there are like 1 trillion different set ups for shower faucet heads knob screws filter filters etc.… So I wasted all this time watching a bunch of YouTube videos on how to replace my Moen showerhead thing, and finally when I figured out that all the videos were exactly different than actually my set up, I just put away my iPad and just try to figure out myself with just by twisting and turning enforcing things out, and finally when I popped out the filter… It looked like 1 trillion times different than the random product that I preemptively ordered on Amazon.
So this actually sounds kind of silly but I guess in the age of AI ChatGPT etc.… The future is truly going to be like using your brain. Not in like some sort of condescending way, but, using your brain is it like… When you’re trying to figure something out, just like stop a second, try to critically assess the system, think from a systems perspective, think in terms of physics, practical solutions etc., and actually a very very underrated one to just asking people.
But then once again, sometimes when you ask people stuff it’s actually a little bit, not particular to you, therefore… What you must do is just take a pause, and try to figure it out yourself.