I was getting packed and ready to go and went to empty out the fridge and saw that there were four lemons. I recalled something a friend had once mentioned about the somewhat odd alkaline state of lemons (I would typically think that they were acidic because of their sourness), which helps balance the body's Ph levels against all of the acidic rush of so many foods available on store shelves these days -but this supposedly only works for about 20 minutes after cutting into the lemon before it too slides over to being acidic.
I got thinking about all of the amazing stuff that tends to just happen to emerge within conversations; you talk with someone, share news, facts, gossip, information, details at the wayside of relevance, jokes and banter and suddenly they're telling you something, like in so many conversations when it seems that people tap into what's underneath all of the back and forth to access an innate wish to keep practical information moving, as if as some undercurrent to the day to day talk - how to do things, what to look for, how to avoid problems, how to make something, how not to break something.
It might be that we give indications of interest, sometimes even unconsciously, and others pick up on that - so many good people willing to share so much, and they share so much...
Created by humans, the internet seems to mirror a sense of design around a similar dynamic - we articulate our interests, for instance in a search term, and it replies back with suggestions, or we move through various activities and the side bars start to feel around for ways to grab our attention...
But it's still not nearly close to any level of where so many people seem to be able to sense where you're coming from at some almost sub-conscious, sub-rational level of an essence of interest. They throw out a few exploratory queries, watch you and hear what you say and boom, there they are, telling you the most amazingly interesting and useful things. Maybe it's not so much about academic degrees, prestigious positions or walks of life as much as it's about that good old basic willingness to share worthwhile information and knowledge.
Centuries before Socrates sat under his tree, people were sharing information and knowledge. Over time, it's been turned into a type of art form, what some might call teaching, advising, mentoring, showing the ropes, what others might say is having a gift for gab, yet some cultures seem to disregard this art, some seem to make excuses why they can't give it more attention, some seem to be confused about how they can raise its stature, get more people involved, build upon the growing surge of technologies that well up on the shoreline of potential. One possible way forward is to allow for informal associations of communication to form into ad hoc communities of driving interest, and provide means for these communities to find their identities. Possibly.
I made lemonade.
I got thinking about all of the amazing stuff that tends to just happen to emerge within conversations; you talk with someone, share news, facts, gossip, information, details at the wayside of relevance, jokes and banter and suddenly they're telling you something, like in so many conversations when it seems that people tap into what's underneath all of the back and forth to access an innate wish to keep practical information moving, as if as some undercurrent to the day to day talk - how to do things, what to look for, how to avoid problems, how to make something, how not to break something.
It might be that we give indications of interest, sometimes even unconsciously, and others pick up on that - so many good people willing to share so much, and they share so much...
Created by humans, the internet seems to mirror a sense of design around a similar dynamic - we articulate our interests, for instance in a search term, and it replies back with suggestions, or we move through various activities and the side bars start to feel around for ways to grab our attention...
But it's still not nearly close to any level of where so many people seem to be able to sense where you're coming from at some almost sub-conscious, sub-rational level of an essence of interest. They throw out a few exploratory queries, watch you and hear what you say and boom, there they are, telling you the most amazingly interesting and useful things. Maybe it's not so much about academic degrees, prestigious positions or walks of life as much as it's about that good old basic willingness to share worthwhile information and knowledge.
Centuries before Socrates sat under his tree, people were sharing information and knowledge. Over time, it's been turned into a type of art form, what some might call teaching, advising, mentoring, showing the ropes, what others might say is having a gift for gab, yet some cultures seem to disregard this art, some seem to make excuses why they can't give it more attention, some seem to be confused about how they can raise its stature, get more people involved, build upon the growing surge of technologies that well up on the shoreline of potential. One possible way forward is to allow for informal associations of communication to form into ad hoc communities of driving interest, and provide means for these communities to find their identities. Possibly.
I made lemonade.
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