We all have an internal voice — that messenger who continually talks to us and us alone. Mine tends to come around when I need to process stuff — when I’m trying to think about an appropriate pathway forward. However, it does occasionally speak up like this:
“If people would just see things my way, I’m pretty sure things would move along much more quickly. I’m a rational person, a calm person … someone who has a bunch of common sense.
Come on people … focus!”
A triangle is the ONLY two dimensional polygon that cannot collapse or bend — it is surprisingly strong for its simple shape. That’s its beauty — all 3 sides work together to find strength. A square – -a shape with just one more side — doesn’t have this strength. It will easily bend or collapse.
A Triangle Easily Resists an Applied Force, but a Square Folds Like a Cheap Tent
The triangle is well known to engineers who use it ubiquitously in our world because of its elegance and surprising strength. You can’t walk down the street without seeing triangles just about everywhere.
I watch the occasional TED presentation — if you haven’t done so I recommend it. Each video lasts about 5-10 minutes and they are typically very conversational in nature as well as thought provoking. Often the speakers are scientists, authors, athletes — someone who is an expert in their field.
One that I’ve watched a couple of times is by Julia Galef:
