aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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Good protocols, in short, manage to catalyze good enough outcomes with respect to a variety of contending criteria, via surprisingly limited and compact interventions.
Venkatesh Rao • The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
Which of my strongest beliefs are formed on second-hand information vs. first-hand experience?
If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how would I define a good life?
Whose views do I criticize that I would actually agree with if I lived in their shoes?
Who do I envy that is actually less happy than I am?
Looking back, am I any good at... See more
If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how would I define a good life?
Whose views do I criticize that I would actually agree with if I lived in their shoes?
Who do I envy that is actually less happy than I am?
Looking back, am I any good at... See more
Morgan Housel • A Few Questions
It doesn’t matter how much we summarize, at some point, effort is required. More summaries won’t automatically lead to more understanding.
Seth Godin • The Cliffs Notes paradox
Part of the magic of an actual book is that the reader ends up understanding. It seeps in, the aha’s are found, not highlighted.
Seth Godin • The Cliffs Notes paradox
The landscape of information online is time-independent yet observer-relative. My interaction with content is shaped by my unique digital context – my online habits, frequented sites, and chosen links. This reminds me, in an unscientific manner, of Einstein’s relativity, where time and space are relative to the observer's position. The meaning and significance of online information change based on the viewer and their vantage point. No wonder the internet feels like a vast, contentious discussion space, with everything existing in all states and variances simultaneously. In real life, things change over time, but perhaps in the physics of the internet, it's all about the relational dynamics of data, defined by its current network of relationships and connections.
When I post online, I add basic metrics to track views. But I never know the contexts or the viewers. Suddenly, this information exists in multiple states of interpretation and misunderstanding, yet in a seemingly timeless way. It appears in various timelines and communities, creating different contexts and associations by proximity alone. This makes me think of information entanglement, where separate pieces of content, or even fragments, once removed from their original context, become intrinsically linked in the minds of others, existing all at once in myriad forms. The data becomes the medium. Like a quantum particle, understood only in layman's terms, it exists in multiple states of interpretation, misunderstanding, and relevance simultaneously, collapsing into a specific state only upon interaction (viewing, sharing, commenting, etc.).
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”