We Didn’t Start the Fire by King Charles
originally by Billy Joel
Some things I’m thinking about right now
- I need a more coherent way of collecting idle thoughts.
- This slideshare is fascinating.
- Why is my first thought after reading it ‘how does nonlinear time affect the way I should live my life?’ which I quickly correct to ‘… the way I want to live my life?’
- What should I build next?
- Can I do something fun with heatmaps?
- Where is society heading?
- Will the poor ever catch up?
- Is the (rich) world becoming a playground? Is that good? Bad? Do I need to make a judgement?
- If you take away good and bad, is there anything left but play?
- I want to leave the flashes on insight I discover together into a coherent picture. How might I do this?
- Can I mesh something into tumblr to make it act similarly to delicious?
- What would a thought-weaver look like?
- Is this pretentious?
So, if willpower doesn’t work…
What would it be like to live free of will?
What would determine your behaviour?
How would you end up behaving?
Would it be sustainable?
How could you make it sustainable?
My conclusion: raw willpower isn’t an effective way of changing behaviour; true change is going to happen more organically. Speculating, it’s likely that such organic change is going to be more heavily determined by your environment, since organic change is going to manifest itself as a bigger process of which you are merely a part, rather than a battle of Will against the World.
The outcome of that is that we should probably pay more attention to the people that we spend our time with and the media that we choose to consume.
Maybe my Sopranos marathon isn’t such a good idea. ;-)
‘Getting things done’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
A new friend on the absence of photography in her life:
The outcome? A six month gap in my timeline.
I don’t feel the absence of having my history documented with nearly the same pain.
Most of the time, when I think about the moments that I have not photographed, I mostly feel only a vague social obligation; “I suppose I should have taken my camera to that gig”.
I guess that’s why I’m pretty bad at taking photos, in general. And why she archives like a librarian.
Another friend said something in a bar, along the lines of “Photographing everything denies the essentially ephemeral nature of life.” I like that perspective. I can’t remember the exact words, so I’m making up a suitable quote. I don’t feel that I’ve lost to much in doing that.
I have no URL to point you to, which is fitting, if vaguely inconvenient.
I shall find a book
coffee in a paper cup,
walk to the water.
God, grant me the strength not to ever post pictures of my feet to the internet.
