You don't need to understand much to do stuff

With the world as it is right now, filled to brim with AI slop and AI answers, we kind of both get this constant feeling of tiredness of the stupid and readiness for certainty.

Certainty has become the norm. We now expect exact answers, with almost no degree of error. AI is now telling us "I know everything. Just ask. Just ask ME. The uncertain, the unknown, the inaccurate, is NO MORE and should be that way. Just ask.".

There is no space for vagueness. There is no vague sense of things, there's just precise answers. Precise knowledge. And with that, comes a lot of laziness.

You become lazy because AI will do it for you. Why know? if AI already knows. Why learn? If AI already learnt it.

So. as an action of rebelling against this new norm, you must act. And to act, is to do. And to do, is sometimes to do it vaguely, unknowingly, stupidly even. But DO IT.

So, without much understanding, just go ahead and plant a tomato. Lay some leaves on the ground and call it mulch. Grab a wooden box and fill it with dirt and whatever's left from your kitchen. Call it compost. Make it sloppy, make it stupid. For now, that at least is YOURS.

In the future, if you're willing, if you need it, you'll learn. You'll read the book. You'll see the result of a tomato badly planted. But you'll LEARN.

Anyhow, just wanted to say this for those of you who are tired of how things are going. Here's a little bit of advice. Just do whatever. Do it sloppy. Do it stupid. But do it.

A quote from a book I'm reading right now (Como hacer un buen compost - Mariano Bueno):

"Composting can seem rather complex, and in fact it is. Although it is also true that in order to make a good compost it is not necessary to know up to detail every process of degradation and transmutation (...) But if we're conscious of the processes that happen in the compost and of the idoneous conditions for good fermentation we can collaborate with Nature to get better results, obtaining a result that gives life and fertility to our soil and that gives us vigorous, healthy and productive plants."

Have a nice day.