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The Background Noise of Productivity
I urge you to skip this introduction!
We homo sapiens are astounding works of art. Not very long ago, right when we were not monkeys anymore. We heard plenty of wind blows, bird tweets, and lion roars. They were pleasant and annoying at the same time. We had caves with leaking ceilings and occasionally dripping icicles. So we always slept to the sound of something. There was a lot of noise and they pissed us off. It was hard to focus. So we built walls. Four of them. We multiplied the four-wall combination and built bigger things.
Then there were more of us. Then we found how to talk to each other, exchange currencies, get drunk, mate, and occasionally remove each other. Then we got busier and made calendars that go from one to seven in endless loops. Then because we were getting busier and busier, we started not liking it. So we came up with solutions that made these busy times go away. So we started making stupid sounds out of stupid things. Then more of us started to like these un-busier algorithms. Our sounds were quite funny. Some of us were better at making those sounds.
Fast forward, and a few hundred holocausts and “The Truth Is On Our Side!”s later, we got better at making sounds. Not us, though! Like… Dylan, maybe? Dylan was quite good at making…
