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+title: "IKN0X2223 : Epistemological Cartography (The Panacea for delusional but aspiring rationals)"
+date: 2024-04-05T05:54:07+05:30
+categories: ["Polymathy"]
+tags: ["documentation","epistemology","cartography","that's-what-she-said","muse","conquest","ambition","delusional","mythology","poetry","rhetoric"]
+---
+
+*check out what an IKN0x means [here](https://rajpatil.dev/post/ikn0x0/)*
+
+*Snap-shotting projections of mind over time is a good habit
+that you "hould practice.*  
+
+I will try my best to persuade you of that...  
+
+An over-powered upside to pursuing multiple interests
+over the span of your life is to have the ability to compare and
+contrast multiple domains, akin to having multiple hill forts over
+your territory than only establishing a centralized castle.  
+
+In your conquests towards expanding your epistemological empire, you will
+have to chart out where you've been and what you've marked to be
+explored sometime down the lane.  
+
+## Documentation doesn't have to be a duty
+
+Documentation, compared to actually building abstractions, is
+considered to be a somewhat inferior activity.  
+
+I personally have struggled with boredom as well when it came to documenting my
+deliverables from time to time at work.  
+
+I do acknowledge the importance of good documentation in any domain to
+help collaborators catch up to speed quickly and consequently speed up
+the expansion of the domain.  
+
+But I also do acknowledge that exploring nascent domains like an
+intellectual vagabond, or more ambitiously - an epistemological
+explorer, is a funner way to go about it.  
+
+My personality isn't quite the one that would like to criticise and
+account for existing discoveries but discover blooming phenomena
+myself.  
+
+Not that I look down on such structured duties but I'd
+frame it as me admiring other cups of tea better.  
+
+[Epistemology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology) and
+[Cartography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography) are fairly
+[fundamental domains that one could benefit by the merger of](https://buffer.rajpatil.dev/%2F20231003181631-epistemological_cartography.html).  
+
+Intellectually charting out the philosophical theory of knowledge
+helps one undertake the task of building the bigger picture (or
+better yet, architect the matrix (I'm inclined to assume the
+existence of one)) in a more
+delusionally ambitious and enthusiastic manner.  
+
+## Don't "Don't Document" Stuff
+
+Thinking in consequences of not carrying out a task can potentially turn out to
+be a better incentive than focusing on the gains of doing
+so: I regularly use the notion of negative rewards to keep me from
+avoiding a necessary task.  
+
+*Snap-shotting projections of mind over time is a "good" habit
+that you "should" practice.*  
+
+That didn't sound quite compelling, right?  
+
+Let me hit you with what ensues if you choose otherwise:
+
+#### Static Personality Syndrome
+
+Regular self-reflections indicate that you don't even need to put in
+the effort to really change an aspect about yourself : it's an
+inevitable characteristic of any abstraction that exists over a
+relatively long duration.  
+
+Lack there-of might result in an unjustified bias of your core
+thoughts being stagnant.  
+
+You probably just aren't registering the minor updates on a regular
+basis for an observable change to accumulate in an aware manner.  
+
+Still don't quite feel what I wish to convey, right?  
+
+Lemme infuse some intensity...  
+
+#### The Minotaur of Eureka
+
+[Theseus laid out a red
+thread](https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-theseus-and-minotaur/)
+to help him traverse the labyrinth.  
+
+After chancing upon an intriguing insight, you run the risk of losing
+your intellectual bearing simply cause of the hormonal implications of
+a eureka.  
+
+Now, there's nothing wrong with enjoying the occasional
+epistemological high but you have to retain a few designated drivers
+to take you back to a stable thought process again.  
+
+I speak from experience : marrying an elegant idea when you're sloshed 
+in Vegas doesn't last as you'd want it to and ends up with
+regrets. Love at first sight sounds romantic (and it is) but I like to
+hedge my paths when it comes to wisdom (doing it with women is
+probably not a wise piece of advice).  
+
+I recommend courting an idea over multiple dates, testing out if you
+really are for each other and only then promoting that idea to a
+personified muse.  
+
+[Reverse chronological
+streams](https://buffer.rajpatil.dev/20230712132109-timestamps.html)
+are my map (the red thread) saving me from the trauma of recursive introspection
+(the labyrinth) and consequent intellectual burnouts (the minotaur) :
+my journals (my epistemologial Ariadne) helped me realized the
+importance of always logging my exits and entries, however meager -
+prominence wise - they initially seem to be.  
+
+If you're not the techno-mythical kind of human (that is really,
+really sad), this won't hit hard as well ...  
+
+Maybe.., I'll try casting a much wider wider net to mesmerize the largest
+chunk of personalities I can imagine - a lil'bit of poetic imagery to
+the rescue ...
+
+#### The Gardener and the Butterfly
+
+Let's paint a picture...,  
+
+In this garden of domains do you wish to be the eternally euphoric
+butterfly that roams around experiencing the flowers of the
+instantaneous present, potentially sacrificing macro-awareness..  
+
+or  
+
+Do you wish to be the gardener tending to a more elaborate context, to
+see your tendees (domains that you tend to (this isn't a word)) mature
+and flourish into trees, yielding calm shades, allowing you to enjoy
+the butterflies while you sip away on a warm cup of coffee..  
+
+To emphasize the already evident, I prefer the latter and am willing to put in the hardwork that goes into maturing your edgy intellect into peaceful
+wisdom.  
+
+## Document Stuff
+
+***Snap-shotting projections of mind over time is a GOOD habit that you SHOULD practice.***  
+
+Now, I hope that hit just the right spot, leaving you calm and
+satisfied (That's what the muse said in my head) ...