Be Aware of Inertia

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. The picture contains two roadsides with blue sky and some white clouds in the background. The rectangular red road sign on the bottom says “The Way Forward.” The yellow diamond sign on the top has an image of three arrows shaped in a roundabout.

In one of Breaking Bad episodes, Walter White visits Jesse Pinkman to drop off his cash share. During this visit, Walter recalls their starting days of cooking meth in an old, barely-functioning RV, which nearly landed them in trouble several times. Jesse had a “whole system” of what to do in emergencies, like praying that the old, junk-of-hunk wouldn’t “crap out” on him at a red light. Jesse wonders why they didn’t just buy a new RV even though they…