One interesting item to note: every piece of information we access on the Internet, was put up there by some person. (It is a contemplation, I don't know the significance.) Now something called A.I. could also add things, or make them up on the fly. Of course A.I. is built on the foundation of masses of data put up there by some person. Or put there by an algorithm created by some person. The all the data accessed by the algorithm was volunteered by billions of people who incessantly carry a cell-phone, or take Zero precautions about surveillance.
With regard to passwords and 2FA: 2FA is not security. It is a way to tie everything you do to your legacy identity, the super-snoop. Where I live you need a government photo ID to get a SIM card, to have a telephone number. Nowadays, the provider takes an Iris-Scan also.
In operations of my legacy identity, transfer funds between my banks, I need an SMS on 2FA. With everything else I do, I have found other applications, that do not (yet) require 2FA. (Anyhow, I will never comply.)
About Learned-Helplessness: You're right, that everything is externalized, deferred to the authorities. When are you going to be your own authority? It's a huge topic. (Homogeneity. Be at-one with the crowd.) Commercially it is called "scaling", sell one thing a billion times.
The Thumbtack is a great analogy, congratulations. I am going to interpret it as the driving spike is built on personal explorations and experience. And the mushroom cap is external "borrowed-thought". I read 100 links on the net, and many sound good. But I adopt none of them and nothing changes my life. Or I struggle to internalize something (not mine), I do the practices (once in a while), make lists on the refrigerator or on my bathroom mirror, recite positive reinforcing affirmations, and:
Nothing goes in.
Whereas, on the point of the tack, everything is already internalize, as I become aware of it.
You may say "I went to college to learn this profession", (external). But now you develop much more on the job, than ever in a classroom.
2FA may not be for security, but it was the closest example to mind since I was already talking about password rules.
I might rag on it here but I actually like scaling's first order effects. Getting more people on the same platform can allow talk to flourish. It's when we start building exclusively for scale (or, in general, do nothing but make a living) and learn helplessness that I'm not a fan.
Love the thumbtack model. Helps you stay humble and not big up other people too much while still respecting expertise.
Big platforms do allow a lot of interaction. I believe it is the head of the thumb tack, external, if not superficial. (A judgment for sure.) I am no authority since I do not go there, only just starting with Substack.
I prefer the point of the tack, and it's what we are trying to do here. I don't believe "the numbers" prove out. Even Youtube channels with millions of subscribers, get 1,000's of slogans for comments. We are not trying to change social media. We are just trying to carve out a small niche, that serves the growth of our own minds.
It is from the head that the point grows, and so I believe there is a need for big platforms to help people find things they like that they might not already know about. I wouldn't have run into any of you, for example, were it not for the stack, and I would never have encountered the stack were it not for some other link on some other platform.
But I do agree, the point of the tack is the point of it all.
I don't remember the exact details of how we met. I am looking around on Substack (probably not considered "a big platform"). I have been making detailed comments on certain websites. I am searching for who wants to engage at a deeper level. Some do, and have subscribed here. But it is okay by me if we discuss things on their site.
Yes, I do want exposure here, but even a few that are (sort of) committed to looking at content and discussion, could be enough. Commit is probably too strong of a word, not that, but engagement.
I think we have a few very good posts. What do you get out of a couple of the latest ones?
One interesting item to note: every piece of information we access on the Internet, was put up there by some person. (It is a contemplation, I don't know the significance.) Now something called A.I. could also add things, or make them up on the fly. Of course A.I. is built on the foundation of masses of data put up there by some person. Or put there by an algorithm created by some person. The all the data accessed by the algorithm was volunteered by billions of people who incessantly carry a cell-phone, or take Zero precautions about surveillance.
With regard to passwords and 2FA: 2FA is not security. It is a way to tie everything you do to your legacy identity, the super-snoop. Where I live you need a government photo ID to get a SIM card, to have a telephone number. Nowadays, the provider takes an Iris-Scan also.
In operations of my legacy identity, transfer funds between my banks, I need an SMS on 2FA. With everything else I do, I have found other applications, that do not (yet) require 2FA. (Anyhow, I will never comply.)
About Learned-Helplessness: You're right, that everything is externalized, deferred to the authorities. When are you going to be your own authority? It's a huge topic. (Homogeneity. Be at-one with the crowd.) Commercially it is called "scaling", sell one thing a billion times.
The Thumbtack is a great analogy, congratulations. I am going to interpret it as the driving spike is built on personal explorations and experience. And the mushroom cap is external "borrowed-thought". I read 100 links on the net, and many sound good. But I adopt none of them and nothing changes my life. Or I struggle to internalize something (not mine), I do the practices (once in a while), make lists on the refrigerator or on my bathroom mirror, recite positive reinforcing affirmations, and:
Nothing goes in.
Whereas, on the point of the tack, everything is already internalize, as I become aware of it.
You may say "I went to college to learn this profession", (external). But now you develop much more on the job, than ever in a classroom.
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2FA may not be for security, but it was the closest example to mind since I was already talking about password rules.
I might rag on it here but I actually like scaling's first order effects. Getting more people on the same platform can allow talk to flourish. It's when we start building exclusively for scale (or, in general, do nothing but make a living) and learn helplessness that I'm not a fan.
Love the thumbtack model. Helps you stay humble and not big up other people too much while still respecting expertise.
Big platforms do allow a lot of interaction. I believe it is the head of the thumb tack, external, if not superficial. (A judgment for sure.) I am no authority since I do not go there, only just starting with Substack.
I prefer the point of the tack, and it's what we are trying to do here. I don't believe "the numbers" prove out. Even Youtube channels with millions of subscribers, get 1,000's of slogans for comments. We are not trying to change social media. We are just trying to carve out a small niche, that serves the growth of our own minds.
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It is from the head that the point grows, and so I believe there is a need for big platforms to help people find things they like that they might not already know about. I wouldn't have run into any of you, for example, were it not for the stack, and I would never have encountered the stack were it not for some other link on some other platform.
But I do agree, the point of the tack is the point of it all.
I don't remember the exact details of how we met. I am looking around on Substack (probably not considered "a big platform"). I have been making detailed comments on certain websites. I am searching for who wants to engage at a deeper level. Some do, and have subscribed here. But it is okay by me if we discuss things on their site.
Yes, I do want exposure here, but even a few that are (sort of) committed to looking at content and discussion, could be enough. Commit is probably too strong of a word, not that, but engagement.
I think we have a few very good posts. What do you get out of a couple of the latest ones?