Lists of things that help you understand

Things that people do

- Tell you the current situation 

- Tell you what might happen

- Do things

- Tell you how things work

- Tell you how things could work better

- Create new things

Quote from American Sniper

There are 3 types of people in the world, sheep, wolves and sheep dogs. Which one do you want to be?

Scientists discover it, understand it and imagine uses for it, engineers build it. The rest of us operate it. Anything else is either nature or bullshit.

Intellect

Intellect often creates a complex journey from instinct to action but with enough thought you should be able to trace any action back to its source instinct.

Shining a light

A big part of my job is shining a light in the dark.  Unfortunately some people don't want that, they prefer to sit in the dark and imagine what's out there, good or bad.  Which is fine until the thing hiding in the dark comes and eats them.