We are automata, our minds are molecules in salt water.
Personal growth comes from using both internal and external changes, like a ladder with alternating left-right steps.
The todolist is an action-oriented long term memory prosthesis.
You create a project to represent reading the book, and that project is now tracked, and when you open the todo list, you can see it in the list of active projects.
To me, energy is less like a battery and more like voltage. Some machines require a threshold voltage to operate. Below that voltage they don’t just operate slower, they don’t operate at all. Analogously, different categories of activity have different threshold voltages.
In 2001, quantum computers factored the number 15. It’s now 2025, and quantum computers haven’t yet factored the number 21.