Take everything as an experiment

The thesis arrives mid-conversation and organizes everything around it: “uno debería tomar todo en la vida como un experimento”, what happens if I do this, what happens if I do that ▸ 14:06.

The proof is Thor. The veterinarian’s recommendation was the injection, stop his suffering ▸ 14:28, and he privately expected it to end that way. But bringing the dog home turned the prognosis into a series of testable variables. First observation: the clinic floor was slippery, so a dog with weak hind legs spent two days unable to stand, sitting in a corner soiling himself, getting worse for reasons that had nothing to do with the disease ▸ 14:53. Then the trials: food by hand, small walks, the tennis ball that made him try to stand, and the escalation that worked, a volleyball, the toy of his youth ▸ 15:51. Play spends energy, energy makes hunger, hunger makes eating, eating makes everything else work ▸ 15:34. Result, stated with appropriate wonder: the dog seems to have “rejuvenecido como 2 años” ▸ 16:08, and the walk without the harness followed days later.

el veterinario dio un veredicto; la casa corrió experimentos →

The transfer to humans is deliberately mundane. Run the standup meeting on yourself: what did I do yesterday, what will I do today, what are my stoppers ▸ 6:59, the review almost nobody performs, Julia included by her own admission ▸ 6:44. Wake at 7 this week and at 6 the next and compare ▸ 16:57. The through-line back to the causal worldview is exact: if everything has a mechanism, then everything can be probed, and the difference between a verdict and an outcome is often just whether somebody ran the next experiment…