Digital Deepspace

Money is Power, But Wisdom is Best The goal when making a decision is to be right. The same goes for when confronted with problems and arguments. We want to solve them and win them, respectively. Doesn’t everyone, especially lawyers, want to win every argument? However, most non-mathematical problems and arguments are very non-binary (binary being true or false, yes or no, innocent or guilty, to do or not do, etc.) in that they have many prospective solutions and answers. In those cases, winning an argument does not always mean the winner is even correct. Is there a right or wrong answer on where to have the company’s Christmas Party? Among the people discussing, one person could seem more right to some, and another could be less right yet more convincing to others, and either could be speaking to the wrong or right crowd correctly or incorrectly. That illustrates what we all already know. Which is that for different people, the same problem often has different solutions. So then, what...

A Simple Analogy on the Philosophy of Waste The summer heat at the State Fair is intense. After wiping the sweat from his eyes, George sees an ice cream vendor in the distance. He loves ice cream and smiles, knowing there’s nothing better than its cold tastiness on a humid day. George walks over, fingering the money in his pocket, knowing he has no reason to count it. He came to the State Fair with enough money to play as many games and eat as much as he wanted. Once he reaches the ice cream trailer, George pulls out his wad of cash and orders.  A couple of locals named Bill and Ted lean on a vacant trailer kiddie corner to the ice cream vendor and oogle at the massive amount of cash a slightly overweight, sweaty young man is holding. They then look at each other, aghast, as George turns away from the booth with a single cone filled with a ridiculous amount of Superman-flavored ice cream. The top scoop, which looks to be the eighth, immediately drops from the mountain of ice cream ...