Timing
Timing is everything - the punchline of a joke or falling in love. Courage and weakness, success or failure. Grace.
We shouldn't confuse timing with luck. From Seneca to Oprah, folks agree good fortune occurs when the conditions are perfect. Preparedness (in one's own control) meets the shape of the universe (outside one's control) and we're struck lucky. This God shot is not some mythical unicorn, but more karmic fusion. It happens when the conditions are perfect.
The physics of luck are known, to the first order anyway. Attitude drives learning, requiring purpose. The practiced achieve moments of superfluidity. Most of us are merely lucky, sometimes.
Beyond the individual wiring, attitude and approach of the principal founder(s), ideas have context. The old joke that fusion is 30 years away and always will be may meet it's end shortly. The Jetsonian vision of flying to work may well be possible, if not yet economical. We can already abstract the mundane into the car 2.0 experience. We should probably stop monetizing walking for our own health, but there remains plenty of theoretical fun to be had across the mobility spectrum.
The challenge is we discovered climate change 40 years too late and then didn't bother to think about doing anything for 40 years after that. What if the Greatest Generation had been avoiding our current existential threat, instead of averting crisis? It could have been worse, but we could have done more with that moment than spawning American-led, global consumerism.
We're late. The time has come. Alternatives suck.
Let's go humans!
We shouldn't confuse timing with luck. From Seneca to Oprah, folks agree good fortune occurs when the conditions are perfect. Preparedness (in one's own control) meets the shape of the universe (outside one's control) and we're struck lucky. This God shot is not some mythical unicorn, but more karmic fusion. It happens when the conditions are perfect.
The physics of luck are known, to the first order anyway. Attitude drives learning, requiring purpose. The practiced achieve moments of superfluidity. Most of us are merely lucky, sometimes.
Beyond the individual wiring, attitude and approach of the principal founder(s), ideas have context. The old joke that fusion is 30 years away and always will be may meet it's end shortly. The Jetsonian vision of flying to work may well be possible, if not yet economical. We can already abstract the mundane into the car 2.0 experience. We should probably stop monetizing walking for our own health, but there remains plenty of theoretical fun to be had across the mobility spectrum.
The challenge is we discovered climate change 40 years too late and then didn't bother to think about doing anything for 40 years after that. What if the Greatest Generation had been avoiding our current existential threat, instead of averting crisis? It could have been worse, but we could have done more with that moment than spawning American-led, global consumerism.
We're late. The time has come. Alternatives suck.
Let's go humans!
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