January 19th, 2022
- metaphor notes listening to Mike Haber
- "good way to ask without imposing your ideas"
- "try on metaphors"
- prompt of simply eg "Complice is like ___"
- > "labels" isn't a metaphor for me
- 🤨
- it's a little underspecified but labels are a kind of physical object and the mapping of them onto digital contexts is just as much of a metaphor as a folder is
- he also said "intention" wasn't a metaphor (for him)
- interesting point about basecamp's Basecamp hill charts - uphill/downhill
- basically that the metaphor and/or the use of it can highlight a difficulty or a problem
- such as that in the downhill phase, the implementer may have trouble getting issues heard
- (I think this is not as much of an issue with how basecamp works, but that's not obvious just from the chart)
- things I feel like writing about
- knot-listening or something
- watching Alfie Kohn Unconditional Parenting talk
- "false dichotomies are popular because they make choosing easy" (~9mins)
- ~kids learn bullying patterns from their parents all too well (~15mins)
- (resonates with a visa talking point)
- core library / canon / Books/Cultural Literacy
- PCT
- Alfie
- Deutsch
- SooS
- ??
- "Punishments and rewards are popular in part because they pretend to be a one-size-fits-all solutions. That's part of why they don't work very well either." (1h00)
- "have to look beneath behavior"
- "the opposite of praise isn't criticism—the opposite of conditional affection is unconditional affection" (~1h19.5)
- "how to deal with difficult parents"
- = concept of a parenting book, but from the perspective of a child
- "how to deal with your guru"
- mystical experience as a flow state of meta-optimal gripping (as opposed to eg tennis)
