Hypothesis on How to Proceed in Life 20240917

Life Consideration Series §

• Current Hypothesis

  • View the core of activities as a cycle of conceptualizing and implementing a mystery system, exploring what happens next, abstractly reflecting on the outcomes, and then repeating the process.
    • Often discussed at informal gatherings (blu3mo)
    • When given enough free time, I tend to engage in this without a specific reason, and it gives me a sense of happiness when doing it.
    • Although I haven’t detailed this process yet, I think of it as my unique special ability.
      • Isn’t what one naturally does a strength?
  • Consider this cycle as a machine at the heart of a factory.
    • Interesting (nishio)
  • Connect what this machine produces to various other systems existing in society.
  • As a result, returns come back from these systems.
    • Example: Turning the created systems or ideas into academic papers brings evaluation and social capital in academia.
    • Example: Transforming the created product into a practical system that provides value to customers brings financial capital in a capitalist economy.
    • Example: Posting the created item on Twitter and making it go viral brings attention and followers.
  • By feeding these returns back into the central machine, more is produced.
  • Something along those lines.
  • Following this analogy, it seems crucial to consider “what materials become returns to be fed into the machine or not.”
  • The returns received seem to include both consumable types and those that accumulate over time.

• I feel like I haven’t quite articulated my mental model clearly, so I’ll rewrite it later.

I feel like I’ve gone through a similar job-hunting process where I had a factory but didn’t think much about the returns, focusing instead on maximizing the “resource poured into the factory = free time.” (nishio)

• Over the next few years, I wandered about what value I should be creating lol
• It seems that if I use the free time I have, I could channel resources other than time into the factory. (blu3mo)