Quotes About Adaptation

but errors are costlier and delays are considerably longer than in the past.

The more variability you observe in a system, the less Black Swan–prone it is.

Wouldn't that be stifling?

sometimes life requires compromises:

It was of course picked up through natural selection, survivorship, apprenticeship to experienced practitioners, and one's own experience.

Now, what if you were going to Chicago, where you are told that the weather, while being 60 degrees, will nevertheless vary by about 30 degrees? You would have to pack winter and summer clothes.

Each time one is cut off, two grow back.

No, we don't put theories into practice. We create theories out of practice.

So our mission in life becomes simply "how not to be a turkey

Where is the role of optionality in this?

los «modernos» intentan innovar partiendo de una situación de comodidad, seguridad y previsibilidad en lugar de aceptar la noción de que la inventiva surge de la necesidad.

A wolf is trained to survive.

Why is it that science comes and goes and technologies remain stable?

Remember from the logic of the barbell that it is necessary to first remove fragilities.

Avoid optimization; learn to love redundancy.

This world is full of new things to try. Not all of them will bring you joy, but those that don't will at least bring you education- as you'll learn to never do them again.

When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what can you do? Everything comes tumbling off the shelves of your expectations; nothing fits anymore.

You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Belong to yourself, then, like me, said Big Tom. That way, when changes come, you'll always be ready to hold your tail high and move along.

To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past. A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

Conscious individuals know that if they wish to advance in their careers they cannot rest on yesterday's knowledge and skills. An overattachment to the known and familiar has become costly and dangerous; it threatens both organizations and individuals with obsolescence. Scientific

Also, each person has a different learning style. Some may respond best to visual information, others to language (lectures, reading), others must touch or engage the physical world for things to make sense.

Consciousness does not "reflexively" expand in the face of the new and unfamiliar; sometimes we contract it instead.