There was a lot I was hoping to achieve in 2024. Some of it was achieved, some wasn't, as it often the case. One thing that often pops up in these goal buckets is to "be less stressed out". In my notes, I will often write

A planet's life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right - and we will have to deal with

There is something ironic about the fact that on Earth the truly wealthy get to divest themselves of modernity and live simple reverted lives as hunter-gatherers while the rest of us scurry around fixing and fine-tuning the myriad complexities of the modern world that lets them do it. -Richard Morgan