Tag: information

Sparring for Literacy

It’s time for another installment in our “Golden Rule” series. Today I want to talk about sparring for literacy. You might also think of this as iteratively bouncing ideas off of each other, a sort of turn-taking approach to testing out hypotheses — which is not taking place in modern educational institutions and / or research settings:

These old-fashioned educational institutions mostly (nearly universally) still consider mere publication to be the end game rather as simply a starting point to get the ball rolling in endless and ongoing games of information and communication. These more and more ancient institutions are failing societies by allowing infantile (and incoherent or even completely meaningless) marketplaces to function as arbiters of success and / or failure.

https://socio.business.blog/2023/12/02/about-technological-limitations-of-the-publishing-model-as-an-information-and-communications-technology

As in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona” (2008), so we too need to test out what we want, don’t want, which direction we turn toward or away from, and so on. The publishing model is inadequate to the task of figuring out answers to such questions on an ongoing basis. We need ongoing information and communication feedback loops, rather than a one-way publishing industry.

Therefore, the Golden Rule of sparring with one another applies — we ought to spar with one another the way we expect our partners to spar with us. Thereby we train each other as we also train ourselves to communicate and inform each other, with one another, for one another and also in order to continually further develop and improve our information and communications technologies.

CONSIDER: What response do I want from this audience?

Keywords: communication , leadership , colleagues , confidence , conversation , culture , expectations , growth , influence , people , performance , results , value

What do you want a listener or reader to do with what you’ve said? Tell them. People are more likely to act when you’ve made the right action obvious.

https://leaderinfluence.net/2021/11/28/how-to-succeed-in-effective-communication

I’m an overthinker so I wanted to know every detail

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I’m an over thinker so I wanted to know every detail about my dorm, how everything works and I don’t think I found enough information anywhere. I looked up YouTube videos and on any Texas State social media’s but nothing was answering my questions, it all seemed so confusing. I believe I’m a very independent person and I will find a way to do it and figure it out, so I did.

https://yearonetxst.wordpress.com/2021/09/12/introduction

The tug of war between what we want and yet what we do not want is a messed up match because we are no longer sure of who is fighting against whom

Keywords: feelings , general , solace , attention , blog , closet , digital love , instagram , love , madness , mental health , wordpress

I do not think there ever has been more confusion and doubting of our own needs and wants becoming like something caught in a spider’s web. We no longer know who we are and what the hell we are doing.

https://unlabelit.com/2021/01/28/the-naivete-of-wanting-love

I want my own interests to be represented here as well as the interests of others

Over the past several weeks, I have been wracking my brain over something I consider very peculiar. It’s very far from being a clear idea, but I have at least created a first attempt of circumscribing it and maybe even describing it in a passable, yet perhaps not fully adequate way. Here’s an excerpt:

Keywords: freezine , common , community , engage , engaged , engagement , engaging , language , linguistic community , obscurity , participation , people , shared , unique selling proposition , USP

We ought not to celebrate our unique individuality as much as we should stand in awe, wonder and amazement if and whenever we feel we are able to come to a common understanding, to reach agreement, to collaborate and help each other.

Obscurity is an issue we all have to deal with | FREELY BE :: Free Media Associations (remediary.com)

I have shown the article to a number of people, but all of them reacted negatively to it. This is very disappointing. I think the main reason why there was such unified negativity is that the issue is very, very complex … and even more than that — I allowed other (current events) issues to color my essay (for example: the past couple weeks of the debates over the 2020 presidential election in the USA).

The approach I describe in the above article is unconventional. If it were conventional, it wouldn’t really make any sense to mention it at all (or at least not any more than mentioning what I ate for breakfast). I believe this approach to business (and in particular: to marketing) may very well be far more effective at creating a much better world … and I want a much better world.

So that is why I have mentioned it here! 😉