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When you choose to disconnect or blame or shame them for the actions of others, your world and understanding of it grows smaller. And who do you think benefits from that?
"I don't need a relationship".
"I am entertained enough therefore I don't need a relationship"
"I cant get aroused anymore. I have theories about why. Its humiliating/anxiety inducing. And therefore I don't need a relationship"
Since everything hinges on what you think a relationship is, its crucial you clarify what it means to your first.
This is super important.
If you don't have a good understanding of what something is, how can you want it?
The chimp brain is unreasonably terrified of loosing status, cash, relationships, health, housing etc etc. That fear is used to setup all kinds of traps to keep the chimp in chains.
So lot of people have got trapped in costly social/professional status arm races, multiple alimony/child support payments, multiple mortgages, endless credit card bills etc etc etc.
If you want to retire. Know the traps. Avoid the traps - https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/loss-aversion/
The world is not static. More people understand the weaknesses of their own brain the less things can stay the same.
These limits can and will be blown away by bots given the amount of data they can crunch. Only issue is unlike in games like Chess or Go where the end state is clearly defined, with therapy its open ended and unknown what type of end states are possible.
Just a matter of time before all paths get mapped out.
Keep at it. Thats the secret. With covid everyone has their hands full. If you are that guy who shows up every 2 days for a month or two someone will remember you and decide to respond. Otherwise the chance of forgetting about you and your mail within 2 minutes is quite high inside a busy workplace.
Best way ofcourse, is to get someone you know to put you in touch with someone inside. Then you spend time circulating till you find someone with authority to take the decision. Unless you are extremely lucky or your project is extremely interesting the whole process can take months (depending on what type of data it is).
In some people its a deep psychological NEED to please others/fit into a particular group etc. If it is indeed a default setting in your brain then you have to meet that need to stay happy.
If you cant meet that need for whatever reasons, dont sit around blaming yourself, change the people around you. Easier said than done for people who have a need to fit in with the group around them but its the main route out of what can become a big trap.
Where you go in life depends on how many connections you create with people. And connecting with people requires energy. Introverts loose energy in the act of connecting while Extroverts gain energy. Therefore Extroverts will have an edge becoming a hub in a network or a connector of many networks.
People who can lead have to be hubs or connectors. The Introvert that leads usually have a bunch of hubs and connectors that bow and bend to them, which happens only if they bring something very unique to the table.
What does this mean? Whats the diff between tower and cell?
When there are 2 or 3 contributors there is a bit of jockeying between them to connect with the newbie esp if you contribute something useful. Make sure the repo has some constant activity.
You might have luck on 1 person repos if the personality type is disciplined/helpful i.e. they always respond to issues, happy to explain things etc
When the tools have become simple enough that second graders can play with nuclear bombs we are all fucked.
I really like that Chuang Tzu quote but it isn't really true, for the vast majority of people, have no clue which tree produces cinnamon and which one produces varnish.
Very rarely do you come across someone who knows all the ways a particular tree can be used. And very rarely do you come across a tree that communicates clearly what it can be used for.
Some people dont know what they need or haven't learnt how to verbalize it.
Some people think they don't need anything, but keep showing up cause at an unconscious level some need they have is being met.
Some people are very clear about what they need, but want the need met from people who cant meet the need.
The only way to increase consciousness is to place 2 questions on the table -
what do you need from me?
and if the answer arrives - why do you feel I can meet the need?
These 2 questions are hardly ever asked and answered. So many people stay unconscious of the unique beauty in every single tree
There will be a never ending stream of "facts" that feed, surprise and mesmerize the curious mind, but no one is any wiser about anything at the end of it.
So just keep asking yourself is all the drama producing outcomes. Outcomes are the safest lodestone in the info tsunami age.
Not worth getting caught up in what the folks "on both sides" are saying reality show. Cuz focusing on "both sides of the story" can take focus away from the fact that the more Complex the Problem, all sides pretend they have the answer and all sides blunder in their own ways. Then they point at each other to take focus away from their own blundering.
When such things happen the right path is always to look for people solving simple things. Not the buffoons on "both sides" claiming mastery over complexity.
Rationality has an upper bound - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality and when that bound get hit all you are left with is ambiguity.
Even on a college campus with a decent network, you ran the risk of getting kicked off if you misused the Broadcast address. Why? Cause there were software and hardware limitations that would bring down or cripple the network.
All that has been overcome. And now everyone on the planet can broadcast 24x7 almost for free.
This is the big issue.
If every neuron in the brain had Broadcast capability how would such a brain work?
Some food for thought - https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10464
"Feynman was universally regarded as one of the fastest-thinking and most creative theorists in his generation. Yet, it has been reported-including by Feynman himself-that he only obtained a score of 125 on a school IQ test.
I suspect that this test emphasized verbal, as opposed to mathematical, ability. Feynman received the highest score in the country by a large margin on the notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition exam, although he joined the MIT team on short notice and did not prepare for the test. He also reportedly had the highest scores on record on the math/physics graduate admission exams at Princeton.
It seems quite possible to me that Feynman's cognitive abilities might have been a bit lopsided — his vocabulary and verbal ability were well above average, but perhaps not as great as his mathematical abilities."
There is no dearth of douchebags in positions of power and responsibility. And they are happy to over ride "HR processes" not because they are incapable of recognizing another douchebag, but because they think the douchebag will be effective.
The problem with cancel culture is it doesnt address that belief. All I see is "cancelled" ppl and various douchebags afraid of being cancelled getting together and supporting each other reinforcing their "victimhood".
Sooner or later enough of them aggregate at one spot or the other and create new issues for everyone.
The only way to deal with douchebags especially in the corporate world, is to be more effective than them in delivering results. That makes the story simple.
Cancel culture just complicates it.
It can go the other way.
Another issue is whenever curiosity spikes, its not that easy to identify them or get more info about them by simple googling or looking at books (my botanical technical vocabulary isnt that great) so they remain these mysterious unidentified unknowns. But yeah totally agree they are beautiful in their own way and are constantly surprising me.
The frequency of photos would increase when there was flowering, fruiting, growth spurts, interesting leaf growth etc but the plant would get totally ignored for long periods if its neighbour was doing something more interesting or if it was struck by diseases/bugs, wilting, dying etc.
I also realized my least photographed subjects are weeds. Even though a lot of time is spent looking for them and managing them and just being gobsmaked at how unbelievably good they are at surviving whatever the universe throws at them.
I have a dumb script that generates a periodic report on all the tags to tell me which plant/tag hasnt been clicked for a while. It hasnt really made me a more disciplined but I feel its constantly reminding me of what I getting bored off and where my interests lie.