In the ocean, the deeper you go, the lower the energy level of fauna there. Weaker muscles, slower moving. 🤔
There’s a lesson there I can’t quite figure out.
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I’m going to flatter myself by interpreting my generally low-energy personality as “deep”
I’m not napping, I’m just pondering the abyssal depths of the human condition
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Supporting evidence. Deep ocean life is time-wasting life. Because you don’t have energy to waste.
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“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” — Amos Tversky


Is 20h/week a “little”?
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Interestingly, they are also larger, and live MUCH longer. Take isopods (roly polies), for example.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_iso
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That thing is uggghhleee
See also the large slow sharks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
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Harsher environments require more efficiency (which could be interpreted as laziness) ?
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Never engage deeply, stay nimble by tweeting fortune cookies or Wikipedia summary threads
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