Just saw the Youtube video showing the subreddit (great content!), figured I could show a clip I've had saved for awhile. Just me surviving Spa in LMU sometime mid 2025. I don't remember my starting position (~P13) but I finished P6.
I spend a lot of time thinking about systemic failures, problems that grow far beyond any one person and eventually affect all of us. One thought that keeps coming back to me is **human potential**.
There are countless people who never get the opportunity to discover what they're capable of. Not necessarily because they're unintelligent or unmotivated, but because of the circumstance they're born into, the systems they're placed in, and the things they have to spend their lives worrying about.
I've wondered what humanity could accomplish if we built a society where people had a genuine opportunity to discover their interests, develop their abilities, and pursue meaningful things without having their lives consumed by basic survival. People shouldn't have to spend their lives merely surviving when they could be learning, creating, exploring, building relationships, and discovering what they're capable of.
And because these things are systemic, they're connected by a giant web of other problems. Change one thing and you can affect a dozen others. I don't have all the answers. There's a lot I don't know. But I do feel like I've made some headway in thinking about a few key areas that seem fundamental to me, particularly shelter, food, and education.
Those questions are much bigger than the scope of this post, though. What I'm really interested in is having these kinds of conversations with other people.
I'd like to hear about **anything** you think humanity is failing to solve, big or small.
Why is it a problem?
Why does it exist in the first place?
Why have we failed to solve it?
What would it take to move away from the way things are toward something better?
You don't have to be an expert. You don't need to have a complete solution. I'm interested in the questions you're asking, the things you've noticed, and the ideas you've been turning over in your head.
It could be something involving nature, cosmology, human rights, economics, education, technology, psychology, politics, or something I've never even thought about.
What is something you've looked at and thought, "*Why are we still doing this?*"
Tell me about it.