Optimize For What’s Necessary

Technology optimizes for performance. Business optimizes for profit. Biological evolution optimizes for survival. Spirituality optimizes for compassion (non-aggression). How does this work out in real life? Performance Optimizations To be successful, any technology must optimize for performance. That means running the same process with less energy, in less time, or with greater accuracy. Take computers, … Read more

Optimization Versus Simplification

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Most of the time, when we want to simplify our life, we are starting by searching for a new system. Being it a new life management framework, some sort of a magic technique or a chain of processes, we expect from this new addition to make our life simpler. Oh, the irony! We add something, … Read more

5 Simple Ways To Complicate Your Life

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There is beauty in simplicity. Yet, we, humans, have an almost uncontrollable tendency towards complicating life. Towards making our houses bigger, or our relationships longer, or, you know, towards just saying one more word when we should really keep our mouths shut. The good news is that this tendency can be observed, managed and, in … Read more