{"id":304,"date":"2022-02-15T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/?p=304"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:10:01","slug":"the-illusion-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"The illusion of  reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1024x512.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305\" width=\"561\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1536x768.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1200x600.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.julianreed.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I sometimes look up at a blue sky with white puffy (cumulus) clouds and see whether I can spot a shape.&nbsp;&nbsp;I might see that the cloud has taken the form of a dragon.&nbsp;&nbsp;Another person might look at the same cloud and see a fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the cloud moves, it morphs into something new, before reinventing itself over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My judgment on a product vision, a meeting or a person will not be the same as someone else\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Neither of us will be right.\u00a0\u00a0Everyone has a perspective and few things remain the same for long.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shopkeeper doesn\u2019t like me, the neighbour\u2019s cat judges me, the interview did not go well &#8211; these perspectives are all as accurate and transitory as my interpretation of the cloud being shaped as a dragon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes look up at a blue sky with white puffy (cumulus) clouds and see whether I can spot a shape.&nbsp;&nbsp;I might see that the cloud has taken the form of a dragon.&nbsp;&nbsp;Another person might look at the same cloud and see a fish. 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