this is better than laying your hopes down on the "everything's possible" strain.
like going, "well, it's possible I could win the nobel prize, it's possible I could date a girl who is hot, smart, and nice at the same time, ad nauseum"
because having at least some spectrum of probabilities rather than saying everything's possible, helps in providing a higher resolution picture of the future paths you can take.
better information makes to better planning and creativity and instincts
you start to develop a hierarchy of possibilities. Arbitrariness dissipates and instead you can say, okay this is likely to happen and therefore x. Rather than saying, "well anything is possible, so WHO KNOWS?"
If everything is possible, then nothing is possible.
think about that.
(that comes from Tufte's "if everything is important, then nothing is important" principle which applies to design. You don't design sites with every link the same size/color/shape, but rather with a hierarchy of click-worthiness. Thanks peter for the tufte book)
// it'd be interesting if I could get my BlogFabric in here, do some remoting stuff etc.. it'd be even more interesting if I could have a new blogfabric manifested here, then I'd have to memorize colors by their HTML names. hmm, tricky business. it'd be a lot easier if movable type just had a fucking AIM to blog thingy... but that'd be hard too, can't account for the rapid updating mechanism
/// we'll see, the first thing to do is get a menu up at the top of here.
I'M EXCITED again about this whole blogging thing. so many extensions i want to code, so many areas I want to expand into. humblizing myself and getting myself to stop focusing on being ultra-successful allows me to focus on other positive motivations, like pursuit of passion, eudaimonia etc..
