"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."

世界是如此不可预测。事情突然发生，出乎意料。我们想要感觉到我们能够控制自己的存在。在某些方面我们是，在某些方面我们不是。我们被偶然和巧合的力量所支配。

At a restaurant do you order what you know is great， or do you try something new？ Do you make what you know will sell or try something new？ Do you keep dating new folks or try to commit to someone you already met？ The optimal balance for exploring new things vs exploiting them once found is: 1/3. Spend 1/3 of your time on exploring and 2/3 time on deepening. It is harder to devote time to exploring as you age because it seems unproductive， but aim for 1/3.

If you don’t invest in the future, you won’t have one.

"Manchmal muss man weit reisen, um zu verstehen, was zu Hause passiert."