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Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 4:08 PM

Control is an Illusion

We over think things. We like to take a subject and make it more complicated than it really is. Maybe we think doing this gives us a sense of intelligence or maybe we revel in the ability to experience and pronounce deep thought, but it seems to me today that maybe we have lost the art of simplicity.

Occam’s Razor is a principle that I have applied to my life and the world around us. Simply put, it means “If you have two equally likely solutions to a problem, choose the simplest.”

It is a principle that has been put to use by some of the greatest minds to ever live, like Sir Isaac Newton, Aristotle, Albert Einstein, and more recently, Stephen Hawking.

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