Asking all my life.
I miss the old del.icio.us. Yes, they have fumbled through the ownerships and are still running, but not the same. Maybe it’s a vintage thing. I am 40, with a child on the way, I guess that’s what you do.
I’ve gone to Pinboard.
Sparse
Simple
Classic.
And Like posts – I know I’ve bookmarked things between 2014 and now. Maybe I’ll see if I can find those too.
For now feel free to follow there, or just look at the new Finds page.
Most of the Sci Fi I watch now, I think…
“Ya – I can see that happening.”
Black Mirror has done too good of a job at laying out the plausible.
Even after watching Altered Carbon.
I still don’t think most is that far fetched. And I think it should be.
I’ve seen glimpses that surprised me. Yet still – I’m thinking in my grand
children’s time, maybe.
Maybe I’ve been watching too much…
Maybe I can’t watch the kind of Sci Fi that I’m looking for.
I’ve been sitting on the genre sidelines too long. Time to pick up some books.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Careers are funny things. Every child is asked “what do you want to be when you grow up.” And by now, I think it’s safe to say that we know this isn’t a stationary target anymore. It’s a long winding road.
Working in IT one moment and a baker the next. Sometimes both, baker by day and on-call server administrator at night.
I have struggled with this my entire life.
Day job, transferable skills, umbrellas — these aren’t new terms.
Wether you’re making career decisions driven by an industry, a philosophy, or survival, there’s still that nugget of choice. The questions you ask yourself around what to do next. Should I refuse to choose? Am I a renaissance soul? Is there a larger picture to find my genius?
Read. Fill out surveys and questionnaires. Fill binders and boxes. Scatter and search.
These are all good ways to uncover, but while you do, keep this in mind:
[met-uh]: pertaining to or noting an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary, especially one that consciously references something of its own type.
With our innate educational training to focus in, a meta-career may go un-noticed, misinterpreted, or un-recognized. I think it’s because these meta-careers are more like fundamental pillars. We know we need them, every career uses them, but in the end we put as much effort and thought into them as we do blinking, or breathing.
Look over these possibilities that could be considered Meta.
Structures of Structures: Perhaps this was Leonardo da Vinci’s Meta. His meticulous notes and details not caring about “what” a structure ended up being, animate or inanimate, only there was structure within the structure, i.e. the ratio of a face or the rule of 3rds.
Research on Researching: I met a Management Consultant that has worked for a number of fields which at first seem disconnected. What does the migration patterns of birds have to do with cereal? How does it all have to do with a theoretical physics background? He loves research. So much so, that he is called in to help companies & organizations figure out how to research. His job is researching research techniques to allow folks to improve their methods and in turn make better decisions.
Communicating about Communication: I’m trying this skin on for a moment. What are the things that impede you from communicating. How do you decide what to communicate. How does one refine and tweak. What is the real root of your thought. How does that root become a single blog post, or even bigger, a strategy. Is it even worth talking about?
Classically, when searching we look in, we hone, we focus — for some that’s perfect. It may be for you.
If you’re constantly, like me, feeling like it’s close but not close enough — try looking outward and include the Meta.
It took about 10 days, but I think I’ve uncovered most of the archive. There’s a few files missing, mainly all the mp3’s. I know there’s a laptop around here somewhere with em all.
So now that that’s done…
I’ve decided to take an audio break and listen to trains. Yup, trains.
15 Years later and I still like to do my personality test. And it’s changed: Extrovert to Introvert.
“Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.
| Type 1 | Orderliness | |||||| |
30% |
| Type 2 | Helpfulness | |||||||||||||||||| |
73% |
| Type 3 | Image Awareness | |||||||||||| |
46% |
| Type 4 | Individuality | |||||||||||||||| |
70% |
| Type 5 | Rationality | |||||||||||||| |
56% |
| Type 6 | Cautiousness | |||||| |
30% |
| Type 7 | Adventurousness | |||||||||||| |
46% |
| Type 8 | Aggressiveness | |||||| |
30% |
| Type 9 | Calmness | |||||||||||||||||| |
76% |
Your main type is Type 9
Your variant stacking is spsosx
| type | score | type behavior motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 23 | I must maintain peace/calm to survive. |
| 2 | 22 | I must be helpful and caring to survive. |
| 4 | 21 | I must be unique/different to survive. |
| 5 | 17 | I must be knowledgeable to survive. |
| 3 | 14 | I must be impressive and attractive to survive. |
| 7 | 14 | I must be fun and entertained to survive. |
I’m a bit old school and like to use similarminds.com. I’m a fan of the longer Jung+Enneagram test.
It’s an on again off again relationship, but I wasn’t aware of time.
Almost 15 years!? Holy Internuts!
And this is just the proof I’ve found so far. I’m sure I’ve been doing this longer.
I’ve tried to make a good archive here, now you can expect back to 2004! Can I find even more?
Do these stories feed us or placate us?
When I read The Hunger Games, for a moment I had hopes that our children where angry. Angry enough to realize what was happening around them. To realize what it meant. Perhaps it’s a quiet revolt stewing in places I don’t see.
Writers and actors want these stories to change us. I commend their bravery to speak out loud, to fight the ancient Leave-It-To-Beaver guard, to try and spark some form of action.
But I fear catharsis.
By the time one hour is up, my anger, fear, desire to act has been purged and released with the scrolling of credits. I know how fiction makes me feel. This feeling has to be because of the show I watched last night. Not because I’m urged to change my world.
What happens when the world isn’t stranger than fiction?
This post was originally published on one of my old blogs. I backdated this to the original publish date.
With converting my old blogs over to MD/Jekyll – I was never really sure what the bare bones minimum meta should be.
So – Will this post?
Update – Yes it did. Boy was I overdoing it on the meta stuff. layout & title are all I needed. Doh!
Over the small history of news, editors and journalists have come up with determinants 1 2 3 4 5 that define “newsworthiness”. Check off more than 1 and bam… it’s “News”. The more checkmarks, the hotter it is.
At first glance, these mostly seem right. However society has been changing drastically and with Infotainmnet becoming more informational that our traditional news sources, maybe we should at least take another look?
Thought exercises need some form of rules. Let’s compare the past and future. Then, look for the gaps.
For the future, because McLuhan seems to be hitting things on the nose, we’ll imagine what his Global Village could become and use that imagined place.
Historically, proximity was the ultimate indicator. Pre-telegraph, information was only as fast as the courier, and that was only as fast as the latest transportation. So of course the best, most accurate, most available, most intriguing, was what was happening around the city – your city.
In the Global Village, geographic proximity is all but irrelevant. Proximity is in the content, context, and culture of the individual/village. These could be deep-seeded villages based on genetics, heritage, sexuality, religion, or they could also be superficial self-elected communities like Craft Beer Lovers, Mountain Climbers, Political Advocates.
The Difference is instead of physical proximity it’s cultural.
How does one easily find and decide? Stop targeting demographics and target psycho-graphics. Or even better, be a part of the village you’re reporting on.
Historically, how many famous people were there? The Mayor, The King, maybe a few Lawyers? If one of the small handful were involved it was a no-brainer to call it worthy.
In the Global Village, everyone has a moment or more of fame.
Sabrina Pasterski, is just as famous, if not more in some villages, than Elon Musk.
Those important to all villages are important not because of who they are, but what they do.
The Difference is Prominence and fame are decoupled.
If that’s the case then perhaps Prominence could be taken out completely? Prominence is the person – Impact is the increasing and continued significance of a person’s actions. This doesn’t remove Actors and other celebrities. Just shifts focus from the Actors who only act – to those who make movies that make a difference, who use their name and status to impact people’s lives.
Historically, making any form of publication or media took time. A lot of time. It made sense that scooping a story right before production deadlines made it a hot commodity. Maybe another newspaper couldn’t get the edits in before starting up the presses, meaning you were the only media channel in town to have it. That meant people flocking to you for the info.
In The Global Village, all is instant, to everyone. There are no physical barriers to hit “publish.” Meaning like when the telegraph started destroying space, time to is irrelevant.
The Difference here is that it no longer becomes a journalistic decision.
Time becomes a commodity to charge for: immediacy, journalistic effort and history 6.
Historically you could go around the room and simply count heads. An explosion? How many people in and around it? How many people travel by it. Multiply it by 4 or 5 and maybe you get the number of family members related. Headcount. The more involved or tied – the easier the decision.
In the Global Village, the rules still apply. However, journalistic institutes need to take more effort to uncover the villages that apply. They work to give context and educate the importance or impact.
The Difference is as society fragments, the full impact on a village may be overlooked. Work, effort, tribal knowledge is more important to uncover the real impact of events.
Historically these stories are the filler. When nothing is really going on find something odd, emotional, or conflicting to grab attention. Non-Fiction.
In the Global Village, everything is human interest. Yes, it has proximity, impact & prominence – each moment can spin out a multitude of varying human interest stories – and they do. It’s no longer just a car accident on the corner causing morning traffic. It’s the struggles and emotions of the person driving that distracts them for just a moment. The system forces them to have to go to work in such an emotional state.
The Difference is that Human Interest is the perspective and details. It’s the flavour of each community.
I think somewhere in the monolithic systems we’ve built around “new” we’ve forgotten that Human Interest is not a determinant, it is “the determinant” that makes a real difference. It’s the root of why we ask who, what, where, when, and why.
This post was originally published on one of my old blogs. I backdated this to the original publish date.
I’m liking this whoe micro blog in github thing. Only thing is, when not at a fully prepped system, or on the road it would be nice to edit. So I’m on the hunt.
This particular little post is using Prose.io.
Not too shabby – I like the presuggested file with date. Would have liked prefilled metadata – or something to help suggest ( let’s more honest – remember ) it.
ok. Hitting save – to see what happens.
update:
The publish flag is a nice add on – but wasn’t visibile enough so had to take a second. And titles… not 100% sold on how those are working. Wasn’t as intuative. Still does the trick though.
update 2
So many updates before the blog is even published. You know that title thing that wasn’t intuative – well it wasn’t a title, it was a full filepath. so… really not intuative. Meta Data it is.