It took me a while but I realized I mostly care about the future and care very little about maintaining the things I have.
Who cares if the car breaks down? Who cares if the house paint is peeling? I'm building my future. Everything else is secondary.
People without vision find it very hard to understand people with vision. But it's worse than that because we, the visionary people, refuse to accept our way of life as valid.
Everyone here in Canada takes excellent care of their properties, pay their taxes on time, shovel their driveways, and change the oil in their cars every 5 thousand kilometers. And they live the same damn life from one year to the next with zero progress.
I'm rewriting my destiny and capabilities on a monthly, sometimes weekly, basis. I don't have time for that shit unless it's detrimental to such a degree that I absolutely need to care.
It was a subconscious tendency for a long time. Now it's a conscious choice. It's also the reason why we're going full nomad.
I don't want to deal with any of the things that come with owning property. I don't want to carry any baggage that limits my access to a bright a fruitful future.
The world is changing and, like Jack Reacher, I only want to bring a single set clothes and a foldable toothbrush into it.
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And on the topic of future, OpenAI just released a new model which, based on what I've seen people do with it, I'm likely not smart enough to properly use. The things it excels at (Physics, complex mathematics, etc) are things I don't even remotely understand.
When I read you I wonder if the future is disconnected from the present or not. I wonder how it feels living with a peeling walls and unwashed dishes. My philosophy is balance. But it got me just this far.
I see all those people you mentioned. When I look at their cared property, I envy. But then I remember that something else doesn't get attention in the time they tend their driveway. Maybe their kids. Maybe their bodies.
We have just x time and energy and we have to choose wisely where to invest. I need to learn how to override this urgency to paint the walls.