Asking all my life.
I’ve always thought about media. Sometimes, maybe my thoughts are behind the times.
Other times, I’m wondering who else in this world is having similar thoughts.
Maybe
it’s all because I recently finished Neil Postman’s
Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Maybe it’s because of the topsy turviness happening all around us. Maybe, I haven’t
found, yet, the one person who’s looking at, and talking about, media in the same
context.
Maybe if you know of someone you can let me know.
Life for me has changed forever, with the birth of my son, Beckett.
My friend Sean recommended I journal the experience to take everything in. I think I just might.
If I don’t post for a while, you now know why. Sleep deprivation, here we come.
I’ve been obsesed for the past 2 weeks hunting for a replacement of Digg Reader. Found it
in Tiny Tiny RSS.
I feel so much better, now that I have my own feed of things to read daily. Under my own control, with my own choices. No AI
deciding and filtering what I should be reading.
Another rss reader is biting the dust.
Digg Reader if shutting down on March 26, 2018. Bummer, we know. Export and
download your feeds ad folder from digg.com/settings and you can add those to
another reader product. Don’t worry! you can grab your feeds after Reader is gone.
Ok – where to next?
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?