Ecology

Recast the problem as living populations competing and cooperating inside an environment with limited resources. You stop asking what a thing is and start asking which niches exist, what feeds what, what crowds something out, and what conditions let a species take hold.

Recast the problem as living populations competing and cooperating inside an environment with limited resources. You stop asking what a thing is and start asking which niches exist, what feeds what, what crowds something out, and what conditions let a species take hold.

Example

Purpose as ecology: your work, three side projects, two friendships and eight hours of weekly free time are competing species. The question becomes which one grows when you feed it, which niche is empty, and what you must prune so a promising project gets sunlight.