Todd Colletti

We live in interesting times, when the progressive access to ever increasing high-quality knowledge has most likely overwhelmed any individual's ability to summarize and digest it. Subjectively I can say that I've done everything in my ability to keep up. Reluctantly, I must admit that if I were to fall behind in this way, I would scarcely be able to recognize it.

I regard my potential inability to summarize, critically analyze and integrate the most important insights of the modern day as a clear and present existential threat. I must also acknowledge that if I can't keep up, there will quickly come a time when I may wonder how anyone could.

While this may not be a 'scientific' approach to an answer, I do have faith that as a collective, humanity is aware of this inevitable threat to its existence. We may be following an optimal path toward the ultimate goal of the self-preservation of our species, which we might try to guess, but would be wholly wrong about in the particulars.

I have vowed to remain engaged, and present, holding on to my illusions of free-will and enlightened introspection long enough to see this through to whatever that next thing will be for us.

I prefer to imagine that our children are actually smarter and better prepared to manage our catastrophic success as a species. I don't question too much my own shortcomings and eccentricities (knowing that I'm probably full of misconceptions). I remain confident that these contribute to the balance of our culture.

I have always been and hope to ever be an unbridled optimist about the future. While the unmarked landmines are undeniably all around us, and thickly distributed well into whatever future we choose together, for as long as I'm able, I will help clean up whatever mess results. I will also do my very best to recognize and call attention to the beauty we create, and hope that I see a great deal more of that before the aliens abduct me, or the zombies eat my brains, or the mech-apocalypse comes and this website gains enough sentience to see me as an existential threat.

Until then, feel free to hit me up, comment on my (n)log and marvel in the here and now, that we may blissfully anticipate an even more interesting set of things to do tomorrow.