July 30th, 2021
- choiceless mode
- Carl Jung on "trads"
- Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World by Florent Crivello - future of work
- this isn't exactly about metaphor but it's related, and it uses related case studies about skeumorphisms in early iPhones, and how long it took to bust old assumptions
- early cars were "horseless carriages" but still had the driver sitting high enough to see over a horse, now for no particular reason (though maybe actually still necessary while there were other peoples' horses to see over, idk)
- coins a useful term valley of mismatch, when old metaphors are being applied to new technology or behaviors, making the new thing look worse than the old thing because it's still functioning in the old's terms
- > I know, remote workers have been just around the corner for 20 years. And they are on the rise, but we’re still crossing the valley of mismatch, trying to apply the logic of the old paradigm to the new one. For now, remote work still means “just like colocated work, only with worse image and sound.” And as VCs like to repeat, it takes a 10x improvement for a new solution to replace the status quo. We need to find the workflows native to remote before it can replace colocation. You’ll know we’re there when we replace “Slack isn’t working for this — let’s meet in person?” by “in person isn’t working — let’s meet in VR?”
- > That’s one of California’s hidden advantages: the mild climate means there’s lots of marginal space. In cold places that margin gets trimmed off. There’s a sharper line between outside and inside, and only projects that are officially sanctioned — by organizations, or parents, or wives, or at least by oneself — get proper indoor space. That raises the activation energy for new ideas. You can’t just tinker. You have to justify.
- > Software is making us all Californians: it’s like a giant heat light, turning the world into a marginal space where experimentation needs no justification.
- useful thread re cult dynamics are the default and happen from good intentions aka cult dynamics are one natural attractor in culture space and frame override & reality distortion fields in general
- dream mashups salon w visakanv
- link to 2019 yearly review in dream mashups post
- "what brought you to the salon?"
- dreams are your mind making sense of stuff, trying to integrate & combine experiences
- so if you eg dream someone forgives you or apologizes, who hasn't
- that's your mind simulating whether/how such a thing could happen, in some sense
- V > the more we make it aspirational for people to live up to being this kind of adult, taking responsibility for accommodating other people, the more people will step into it
- case studies etc
- response-ability to be noticeably different from your mother
- there's a piece here of like: don't introject others projections into yourself
- that wouldn't work anyway since you don't actually have the original data they're using in the first place
- various people describing environmental stimuli
- Visa's "sunset boi"
- Luke's childhood home experiences
- intergenerational stuff
- "history is a series of dream mashups"
- "people projecting school tests onto dates & job interviews"
- dates & job interviews end up lacking in useful feedback
- V > stopgap
- Orwell: "every book is a failure"
- da Vinci: "art is never finished, only abandoned"
- imagine the first day of school, principal is like "we don't really know what we're doing"
- "you could be the best candidate and I could get it wrong"
- M > "democracy"
- wd > I like the vTaiwan project. Not aware of anything else working hard on rethinking how it’s structured
- V > you can make more difference in the world than you think
- but it requires getting outside of the childhood belief that people won't listen to you
- need to speak your words as though they have impact
- authorities have filters that keep noise out
- but you can study/model those filters and learn to get around them
- dream mashups apply to people reinforcing the constraints that were enforced on them, contextually
- "twitter is a place where people dunk"
