By Jhamilbader

father and daughter ⛈

“Strangely, treating knowledge as an end in itself reaps the kind of practical rewards that valuing merely instrumental knowledge may struggle to produce.”

- from “How We Lost Our Focus (and why it should scare you)” by Unsolicited advice (https://youtu.be/oxJkj-C4vjs)

Honestly it is my opinion that knowledge and learning and thinking and all that they entail are valuable in and of themselves: that is to say I take the original poster’s idea a step farther and value ‘useless degrees’ even if they are objectively useless from a practical sense. For me knowledge is an end unto itself, valuable because it is and not because of what it might do.

It’s also worth noting that a lot of very valuable math with a lot of practical applications now started out this way: as purely abstract and only valuable in and of itself. So it seems to me that this perspective doesn’t harm applying the concepts in the long term, but actually helps it.

It seems to be the case that by only chasing what is immediately useful we will miss vast amounts of information and thoughts and development that will become useful or even needed later down the line.

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Beeeeeesssss!!!!

Since I read the 5º book I knew I needed to draw this scene, I know there are already a lot of drawings about this, but still I couldn't resit to do my own version. Kaladin is my fave character and seeing him finally being happy and enjoying life made my heart melt.

btw, I got a little carried away drawing them and ended up sketching two different versions! XD For the second one, I wanted the two of them to look like constellations in the Cosmere sky :')

And some extras! A close-up and clean version:

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

Trying to put my finger on the concept of how like the only real interaction between Kaladin and Jasnah in the series is like that one like… not quite argument in like book two where they both present their somewhat opposing moral philosophies and Jasnah talks circles around Kaladin and he walks away kinda bitter and neither of them change their ways over it but three and a half books later his approach to morality leads him to find peace and become a cornerstone influence for good in the world while her philosophy leads her to losing a kingdom and spiraling into self loathing and something something “it was unfair that convincing someone depended not on the strength of ideas but the strength of the arguer.” But he was RIGHT and she was WRONG and I don’t know where I’m going with this but DO YOU GET WHAT IM SAYING

*bridge four salute*

*clenches fist* kaladin would want me to keep going