Usually, there are plenty of good reasons to change our routines. And even when the reasons aren’t as strong as we’d like, changing things up is good in itself.

Why? We’ve been told that novelty is always good for the brain.

It’s curious, though—our brain’s main job is to predict what’s coming next, both internally and externally. Yet, it benefits from change.

Another example of antifragility: to grow in our ability to predict, we need novelty.

Prompt:

Everyone lives by some sort of code. Even when they believe they don’t have a code, that in itself is a code.
What is the code or codes that you live by and how did they come about?

One I can live by, but not the other

I’m unsure if I don’t like rules and codes because I have a very bad memory, or a very good philosophical theory to excuse myself from following them. The thing is that I don’t like codes since I was a teenager.
(That doesn’t mean that I didn’t follow codes or rules. I just don’t like them. I’m like a theoretical anarchist.)

But today, when I hear or read the word code I only can think about computer programs or genetics. And I really like any of those.

Code as rules is static, a simple recipe or formula with pre-established “if this then that” statements. What to do or not in certain circumstances. This kind of code simplifies complex things.

Code as in programs or genetics is dynamic, a set of pieces to make machines, artifacts, timepieces. This kind of code can be simple but generate complexity.

I don’t live by the first kind of code but by the second one: different sets of ideas, images, phrases, sounds, texts, data, information, emotions, blood, and flesh that move my mind, my body, and my self.

I like to think I live by a code or codes, like in a Matrix movie.