It would be even cooler if it had a deeper view of categories. Right now the biggest category by far is People & Blogs but it's possible to get much more information if it was broken down into sub-categories.
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It is not the lecturers job to police their students. People that cheat only end up cheating themselves, and nobody but the cheater should do anything about it.
The idea you are presenting is very broad, and the explanation doesn't really help narrow it down to anything practical. How would you implement this in practice? How would such a "social construct" operate?
With that said I think that there's a need for digital clans nowadays, similar to multiplayer gaming clans, but for more "serious" games. Could this be it?
I imagine trides building from various inspiration, "clans" in the multiplier world is one - do note that some are "top-down" kind of approach, e.g. they have a leader or a group of leaders, while others still have a "bottom-up" approach, where everyone is part of the whole and have a similar weight in it.
Assuming I understand your question correctly - some trides will form a military-like structure, e.g. a top commander and some kind of heirarchichal responsibilities tree stemming from the top.
For example, in the tride I'm building currently I'm the one responsible for it - how will decisions be made? That remains to be seen - and that's one of the goals of the tride to figure out for itself (at least for ours), I'm assuming it'll be tied to some aspects of the way the tride will decide to conduct itself financially, if at all.
For example, we might decide that the tride has a small community pool of funds which we use to support community lead efforts, projects, and initiatives - e.g. we might want to utilize some of the new Dall-e and other AI software to produce content and generate revenues as a result - I'd imagine that the project would have a champion (appointed or self declared) which will be sort of CEO for the initiative, while the tride itself will act as a board of such an initiative.
Let me know if it provides some clarity on how something like this can operate - but do bare in mind that this is just one simple example and a very specific case...
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Spain insists that the bounty is theirs since it was aboard a Spanish ship, while Bolivia's Qhara Qhara nation says it should get the treasures as the Spanish forced the community's people to mine the precious metals."
Sounds like a Star Trek TNG episode. Where's Picard?
That's so subjective. My photography is interesting to me, and draws admiration and interest from almost everyone I share it with, even though they themselves have phones with cameras.
Just want to chime in and say there's nothing wrong with finding excitement in doing something unique. That drive inside of you has taken people very far I'd imagine, with the obvious tradeoffs.
Don't give up on tech and keep an open mind. It's true that flying drones are not exciting to you, but flying a drone could be a first step in finding something more interesting to do with drones.
Boredom is functional. It can be a guide towards more interesting things so as long as you don't let it run the show. Tolerate it and follow (intelligently) where it takes you, don't avoid it.
I don't know how helpful this will be to you, but it bothered me to see people dismiss your interest because you value doing something unique. Those same judgements held me back for years.
The novelty factor IS important. Back in the 90s/00s techies were relatively rare. Being tech-oriented, generally smart but also socially awkward and introverted is an interesting mix - you derive identity and pride from the things that make you special.
Was this the reason I loved tech? No, that's the reason I DID tech. The reason I loved tech is because I believed that tech will make our lives exponentially better. And up to a certain point, it did...
I get why someone may need tools like this, especially if they are in sales or a similar profession, but I can't help thinking how disingenuous this is.
Moreover, it's easy for me to sniff out and block people who try to keep me "engaged" with systems like this.
If you want to engaged me, I hope you have a specific reason to do so.
If I want to engage you I will just do it and you can bet that I won't waste your time on idle chit-chat.
Otherwise, I have friends and family that don't get enough of my time as it is.
I could see this being useful for friends that I haven't seen or don't have the opportunity to see. When I was in school, I interned in a few different states over the Summers, working with and meeting a ton of great people. We aren't best friends by any means, but I'd like to know how Chris is doing, ya know? We both know we're just acquaintances at this point, but I like catching up with them once and a while, and it's easy to forget otherwise.
> If I want to engage you I will just do it and you can bet that I won't waste your time on idle chit-chat.
Probably a difference in personality between us, since I find the idle chit-chat kind of nice, but I can absolutely understand being on the other end.
Sales wants to sell you something. This guy wants to get in contact with people for its own sake.
One could imagine a salesperson just thinking about a potential customer and then calling them immediately. No CMS involved. Just like how you could randomly think of a friend and call them. The respective motivations are still the same.
The “just do it” distinction is meaningless w.r.t. intent. You’re just being uncharitable.
Imagine if (apologies for the metaphor) each and every sperm cell knew the odds of fertilizing an egg and had a choice whether to pursue that goal or not. I think that in that case no egg would ever be fertilized, right?
I think success is 99% dumb luck. I think everything in life is 99% dumb luck. The fact that each and every one of us exists is dumb luck. But if we resign to that belief, nobody will ever do anything interesting or grand. The remaining 1% (it's way less than 1% of course), is skill, determination, tenacity, ambition, etc. Without those, we wouldn't have any business successes.
Should you draw lessons from successes like Elon, Bezos, Zuck, Jobs? To an extent. But you can't really emulate anybody else. Everyone needs to find their own path.
But what we can do is get inspired by those people. Get inspired by the fact that some human being WAS able to achieve something interesting.
Elon, Zuck, Bezos, Jobs all had incredibly privileged backgrounds. Jobs was probably the poorest - which is to say his adopted parents were comfortably middle class - but he also had a mentor who worked at HP and deliberately scouted out smart kids with an interest in electronics.
There's a sweet spot where opportunity, mentoring, and motivation are far more evenly distributed. The ideal growth culture provides a mix of challenges for everyone who can handle them and support - of all kinds - for everyone who shows some evidence of talent and motivation.
Culturally we're nowhere close to that. So instead we have fairytales about super-special people who are incredibly smart and hard working - where in fact they're not outstandingly smart or hard working, but they may be more motivated (not always for good reasons) and possibly more divergent than average. And mostly they're born with extra opportunities which aren't available to most people.
It's debatable if this is inspiring - or at least questionable if it's more inspiring than a much wider range of successes and success stories would be.
It would be even cooler if it had a deeper view of categories. Right now the biggest category by far is People & Blogs but it's possible to get much more information if it was broken down into sub-categories.