Pick one
- Take in a lot, make tiny mistakes, and improve our heuristics for filtering. This is uncomfortable.
- Take in very little, get risk-averse, and don’t develop systems. This is comfortable.
The former option makes sure you can tear little holes in any ideological bubble. The latter leaves you trapped.
Experience is a choice until it isn’t. Life comes at you fast, and events like layoffs and death often leave us to remember the risks we didn’t take, instead of the comfort we had when we didn’t.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 