I'm actually pretty optimistic myself. I had an issue about dying when I was about 8 or 9 and not being able to see beyond that wall, my mind would wander off to things my child mind found interesting and after awhile I realized that life is like a sentence. The end is just punctuation, what matters is how well you connect what comes before with what comes after and that's come to be my mission in life, to find ways to connect things.

As I like to point out, there are specialists and generalists and while generalists don't get much respect, probably just diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated until their minds fit back in the box, the fact is the people leading armies are called generals and specialist is about one rank above private.

Here is my more complete effort to put some of the pieces together;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0