A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all
Getting into STEM had a big impact on my thinking. For one thing i got to know what makes us tick in perceptual level. At least i have a method to understand my way of life. Experiments are big deal for me for this very reason. It helps me navigate. Forming a hypothesis, thinking about procedure then getting a result has been mechanized within me. And i do this in every aspect of my life. Well not for everything, just for those i care enough for.
Some of my toe dipping experiments includes me playing around with the idea until i have a good enough idea for me to understand if it’s worth pursuing, if the incentives align or not and other questions along that line. Then i give myself around 14 to 15 days of time to test the initial hypothesis. This has largely resulted in me trying bunch of cool things.
These cool things don’t matter if you don’t document it. One key truth that applies to me is like a sailing ship leaving it’s trails. They become unknown territory to me after few months because there was no deliberation that takes in years of effort there. So this is one of the places where i plan to organize my experiments and not just in a throwaway pieces of paper. I want to understand my choices in a deeper level. There is still a time for me to form opinions. I still have that plasticity within me , but some day that will disappear. There will be a hill for me to defend. I will form a ideology. I don’t want to do that so i need traces so i can pinpoint what was so sunk into or what happened over the years that i am now this kind of person i see myself in 10 20 years.
In coming days you will see lots of other links to pages on things i am experimenting. I am still thinking how do i organize it better.