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The Janus Nature of Time: On the bidirectional dynamic connection between past and future. A few tweets I read made me create this visualization about how meaning of past changes in the light of future and how future is interpreted in the light of past.

The highest quality indicator of someone’s cognitive quality lies in their relative capacity to leverage the frustration between opposing perspectives as a metastable plateau from which to develop a higher order perspective. Of course, the pathological version of this process produces Abstraction Ladders to Nowhere, which is why one must always retain the capacity to ground one’s abstract scaffolding in the embodied realm. Still, only by leveraging the generative tension within locally frustrated perspectives as a structural feature within our cognitive architecture can we avoid constant collapse into overly-reductive heuristics that fail to track with our increasingly complex adaptive landscape.

This gave me a nice idea to visualize distributivity as dual ways of measuring subdivided rectangles!