Efficient Ideas
The most impactful ideas are efficient.
They strike the exact level of abstraction necessary
to reduce complexity without losing functionality.
Consider a bubble.
It will always form a sphere.
It requires the least amount of energy to create.
This is why appears everywhere in nature:
it is the minimal structure needed to prevent collapse,
it is efficient.
Though abundant in nature, efficiency is rare in thought.
It appears delicate—like one gust of wind could sweep it away.
Instead, the mind tends toward castles:
complex, robust, insurmountable towers of absolute certainty.
But all things return to dust.
And in that rubble, the essential forms are found.
Balls that roll and bounce.
Rivers that carve mountains down.
Delicate instruments that produce sound.
The core of a great idea is like a bubble:
paper-thin, deceptively simple, and seemingly unstable.
But the test of time can strengthen and solidify it into something eternal.