Philosophy
I think that analytic philosophy has a tendency to lose itself in a world of abstractions and systems until the conclusions you draw start to mean nothing at all.
Entropy
one interesting model of cognitive aging is as an instance of mode collapse - you get tied to the same patterns of thinking that you can’t escape, the attractor states that your mind keeps getting drawn back to and lose the ability to change.
maybe increasing entropy in your life is the way to fight it. maybe i should make more decisions with rng.
On Writing
I think one of the reasons I dislike writing is that I consider thoughts to be living things, and writing to necessarily involve cutting parts off in order to capture them.