Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.
If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.
All my life, it seemed to me that answers make a person's thinking bigger and at the same time sharper. But over time, I realized that answers are born only where they are preceded by good questions. Not to the textbook or to the authority, but to reality itself — to what we see, but often do not notice. It is often said that human life is short. I am becoming more and more convinced that it can be "lengthened" — not by the number of years I have lived, but by the density of observations. In more detail...
or immediately into the telegram channel from observation to understanding
Later we may ask ourselves where we are going and why. This thought came to my mind under the sign “CANNIBALISM POLICE”… But it was too late, we had to go farther consoling ourselves with the thought that we were among the very few people in the whole world who had made some steps forward from the sign. Read more...
On January 4, 2026, it will be exactly three years since I returned to the pool after a thirty-year hiatus...
