As a Kiwi who worked for an American company, I always understood your time relationship. Additional is so much easier than subtraction. But I totally agree with your framing.
Wow, Paul - thank you so much for letting me know. Did you remember from from my post on manifesting from February, one of my goals was: "To have one article of mine shared in The Browser or some other link curation website I really admire this year." This is so great!
BTW, If I ever do a podcast, my goal would be to be featured in The Podcast Browser - one of the my favourite sites on the internet :)
Yesterday I randomly realized that instead of awkwardly refreezing my chicken or worrying about it going bad in the fridge I could just bake the whole pack of chicken breasts at once for the week. This is in some sense the least original idea I've ever had (the concept of preserving chicken for longer by putting it all in a fire is, well, the original human invention), but still the idea of "you can just do meal prep" was somehow original and new to me. The bar for a useful invention can be astonishingly low, for the right person.
I live in New Zealand and play Connections—a game where the puzzle changes every day based on your local time—with a guy in Vancouver. I'm probably not the typical person but I'm very familiar with the constructed nature of the international date line.
(And, yes, usually the time difference is 3 hours, but right now it's 5 hours.)
I think a better, albeit still not perfect term, than invention is curation. Selection and organising already existing things and presenting them in a new context. As you say: this is valuable work.
The Browser is itself a curator and may be why they liked this piece.
I'm reminded of a bit in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig when he cut apart a beer can to make a shim for his riding partners handle bars. It's an act of seeing reality in terms of the possible.
Congratulations Daniel on making TheBrowser.com.
As a Kiwi who worked for an American company, I always understood your time relationship. Additional is so much easier than subtraction. But I totally agree with your framing.
Wow, Paul - thank you so much for letting me know. Did you remember from from my post on manifesting from February, one of my goals was: "To have one article of mine shared in The Browser or some other link curation website I really admire this year." This is so great!
BTW, If I ever do a podcast, my goal would be to be featured in The Podcast Browser - one of the my favourite sites on the internet :)
I did read the manifesting piece, but hadn't remembered your goal. I just felt glad for you. It's richly deserved!
Yesterday I randomly realized that instead of awkwardly refreezing my chicken or worrying about it going bad in the fridge I could just bake the whole pack of chicken breasts at once for the week. This is in some sense the least original idea I've ever had (the concept of preserving chicken for longer by putting it all in a fire is, well, the original human invention), but still the idea of "you can just do meal prep" was somehow original and new to me. The bar for a useful invention can be astonishingly low, for the right person.
I live in New Zealand and play Connections—a game where the puzzle changes every day based on your local time—with a guy in Vancouver. I'm probably not the typical person but I'm very familiar with the constructed nature of the international date line.
(And, yes, usually the time difference is 3 hours, but right now it's 5 hours.)
I think a better, albeit still not perfect term, than invention is curation. Selection and organising already existing things and presenting them in a new context. As you say: this is valuable work.
The Browser is itself a curator and may be why they liked this piece.
This is such a lovely article! I’d never thought that the hiking trails I often create ad hoc could be called “inventions” ;)
I'm reminded of a bit in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig when he cut apart a beer can to make a shim for his riding partners handle bars. It's an act of seeing reality in terms of the possible.