mountains of possibility

sometimes twitter brings fodder for interesting conversation. I’m down on centralized social media a lot lately, but I’ve enjoyed it over the last 11 years, and still occasionally get some utility out of it. for instance, I happened across the following diagram:

tim urban's original tweet

it’s simple concept, but communicated beautifully. your life is a series of decisions, and at each point you are simultaneously closing off possibilities and going deeper on others. sometimes visualizations bring the point home and collapse the meaning into a smaller mental artifact than a long-winded description.