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··· 1 1 # Conceptual Compression 2 2 3 3 - ![[Quotes#^7fe266]] 3 3 + > Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead. 4 4 5 5 From time to time, look for abstractions that can compress the information behind them. This way you can reduce mental space. When needed, you can expand the abstraction and go deeper. This is used a lot in [[programming]], where a new tool or package emerges taking care of that was previously done by human minds (OMRs vs hand written SQL)! 6 6

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··· 47 47 - Happiness is a cookie that your brain bakes for itself. It's not made by the environment. The environment cannot make you happy. Joscha Bach. 48 48 - Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don't stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start. Ijeoma Umebinyuo 49 49 - We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. Confucius. 50 50 - - Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead. ^7fe266 51 50 - That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. P.C. Hodgell. 52 51 - The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Leslie Poles Hartley. 53 52 - Most advice is basically people mistaking correlation for causation. Leo Polovets.