March 18, 20261 min read
Oxygen. Water. Food.
Oxygen. Water. Food.
All required to sustain human life.
Also, each can be lethal.
Too little, we die.
Too much, we die.
The dose makes the poison.
So, we exist on a spectrum.
At the edges: lethal.
Somewhere in the middle, our options:
- sufficient ("good enough")
- average ("what everyone else is doing")
- optimal ("what's best for me")
Knowledge is when the information makes sense.
Intention is deciding what to do about it.