Observation is a practice, and if you don’t practice, you lose it. You can walk in the most beautiful reserve, or even just in your garden, and not actually notice the complexity of what’s unfolding around you. I think we forget how to ask questions, so as adults we have to relearn it.

” I don’t quite know what to think about this weird, exciting new world we have entered. This Neo-in-the-matrix vibe. But I’m here for it.”

Scientometric Bubble:

There’s been a surge in published research without a corresponding increase in knowledge, because the pressure on academics to “publish or perish” means universities are flooding academia with weak, trivial, and fraudulent studies. This will likely get much worse in the age of LLMs.