Random Observations and oblique thoughts

Growth by pursuing a direction?
Start the day by chanting a self-delusionary mantra.

Storytime - scifi nostalgia

Read Cyberpunk Story by Bruce Bethke.
What were you takeaways ?
Hacking ideas - need to go above mere shock and be in the realm of creative ingenuity.
Deleting flights at a random time, for an entire year is a good decoy, to throw people off.
Using services and sending the bill to some obscure legal firm... that sounds like fun
Stealing money was a given
Buying expensive new gear, when you felt like it.
Adults / oldies were dumb. Not because they don't understand you, but more because they think they do and don't really know how wrong they are.
Kids are rebellious, and want to be left alone, to do stuff they think is cool.

Going to the library is still considered a wierd habit.
Connecting across larger networks, is always a step towards gaining power, leverage.

UPSC news capsules - seem to warrant a separate section in the newspapers.
Do I want to get pre-digested opinion, by reading them.
Why are people tested on these "facts" ?
If people selected for these skills are chosen to administer the country, are really smart, why are we shackled in ways which are blatantly foolish?

Why do we suck at this ?

Narendra Shenoy had a very insightful analogy on WA- of a cart in which people in the cart (rulers, free-riders) vs people pulling it (the tax-payers?), was very insightful.
Explains a lot of flaws in the way people think and behave, in our country.
Can you think of any other analogies to explain life?

Misc

Aren't we free to pursue any direction in life?
If there aren't too many hurdles to stop you from that, isn't that good enough?

coming back to the money-issue.

How do I make enough? Is there a way, I can convince myself, and significant others, that I have enough?
As the Stoics would say -Is there a better way to see the issue?
Maybe I'm missing a more intersting pov / strategy here.

Q to ponder

Will I be able to deal with so much of noise in my head?
How do I reduce the noise, or better - select a project at a time and pursue it will full zeal and energy.

Story idea

If all of us had an internal gratitude time, which is synced with the traffic lights
We can only move, if we have saved up and sent some "pehley aap" to people who are genuinely in a hurry.
Maybe I will write it one day, after putting in some more masala.

Day2 of 101 days of blogging