Just Joshin' #189 (Share)
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When you share Stuff, you split it into halves. Or, for Lawrence, some other set of fractions.
Ideas aren't the same as Stuff. Ideas don't have to be divided up to be shared. Economics has this fancy word, non-rivalrous, to describe goods whose consumption by one person doesn't diminish how much they can be consumed by other people.
Ideas are even better than non-rivalrous. Sharing ideas, putting them out in the world, pinballs them around the minds of everyone else who shares them. Responses bounce shared ideas back to us in new and unexpected ways. Unshared ideas never get feedback.
Shared ideas get to be examined, evaluated, and refined by the whole group. Science is all about sharing ideas, then figuring out where or how they might be true.
Life too.
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Evaluating my media usage, there's been too much fluff lately—too much Reddit, Twitter, Facebook.
Ironically, these are all "Sharing" sites.
I don't use them for sharing anymore. I hardly even leave comments these days...just consume.
That habitual consumption isn't productive. I want to contemplate new and interesting ideas. Sharing sites are mostly an empty calorie information diet—mindless scrolling to feed the digital advertising machines.
This week, I downloaded ScreenZen to help cut down on those empty calories. The app adds little bits of friction to access the sharing sites. It disrupts the dopamine pathways that make using the sites habitual.
That's the hypothesis anyways...we'll see where this experiment goes.
2 Dad Jokes:
Over/Under Sharing
Selfies with Superman
Source: My Brain+ChatGPT​
Family Business
Source: Old Joke+Nano Banana​
Highlights:
Share What You Know
​Idea by Michael Dean​
​How to live a meaningful life by Daniel Schmachtenberger​
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2. Add to the beauty of existence. Picking up trash, creating art, complementing someone, alleviating poverty, inventing technology that improves life, expanding the field of what we know about reality, raising children lovingly, planting trees, sharing things of value we have learned…are all ways to add to the beauty of existence. This is inherently meaningful. The beauty of reality evolved through your action. This is the mode of doing.
​on being known by Ava​
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When you share things about yourself willingly—posting pictures of yourself online, writing a blog—you’re making criticism inevitable. You’re releasing information into the wild and people can respond to it however they want. They can approach it with the right context, or absolutely no context. You’re allowing yourself to be seen, to be known, and in return you might be seen in ways you realllly don’t want yourself to be seen.
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Of course, even if you don’t want to be online at all—even if you want to share as little of yourself as possible—you can’t escape the mortification of being known. It’s only by risking something important that we can produce good work and form meaningful relationships. The possibility of judgment is the price we pay for real love.
​Resonance by Chris Barber​
​An Audience of One by Kevin Kelly​
iamJoshKnox Highlights:
The Art of Interview with Adam Montiel
Something to share with you: Adam Montiel, a local radio and podcast host, presented "The Art of Interview" at the this year's Central Coast Writer's Conference. Adam's a great guy, and was nice enough to let me interview him about interviewing as a follow-up to his session. He let me do a deep-dive into his interview process and his (patent-pending) ICE-T method.
Want to Be Interviewed?
I am still trying to flex my interviewing muscle:
​Please REPLY if you'd like to do a 30-minute interview with me for a Podcast that doesn't yet exist.
Or book some time on my calendar if there's anything else you'd like to chat about:
​https://calendly.com/iamjoshknox​
Until next week,
​iamJoshKnox​​
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