> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.isaacbowen.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/08/07.md). # 20240807 structures are built on factors your structure's tolerances involve all of those factors and the probability of those factors changing a friendship is based on a mutual friend being a mutual friend? what if you learn something about the person in common that you can't tolerate? is that okay? how does this apply to the choices we make as we create structure? how can we learn from this? *** This poem was read aloud at Oxford University, last night, by its author. It is not mine. I do not know the author's name. > Memory is a murky thing:\ > The moments of our lives caught in fleeting glimpses. > > Recollection is an imperfect chemical reaction:\ > Neurons firing to recreate pathways to the past. > > But this backtracking opens these avenues to vulnerabilities with each remembrance;\ > simultaneously cementing and morphing the story rendered in that electrical series. > > How does one capture experience when preservation entails dilution of perception or the entropy of exposure to the present? > > Does one ever know again that which was already lived? > > To accept the weathering of salience feels like abandonment rather than desperately grasp for each flash of bygones. > > This sentimental hoarding of all that once was, is not enough. > > To trust the temporal through-line of self to believe that the you that you are now will always be with you, each version of you that always was: beautiful hauntings in the memories of your mind. > > This moment is not gone. > > It lives with you. > > It stays with you. > > Trust that this you will guide you gently along the way and every version of you that you are to become. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/08/07.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.