I constantly struggle because my brain has made connections that are not obvious to others, and when I try to guide them through my thinking I confuse them with details or by skipping explanations that seem obvious to me but completely surprising to anyone else.
@actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd I’ve also been told that my explanation style leans too far into being bottom-up (I start from details and then zoom out).
And that confuses me because well - I’m walking people through the details that helped me piece together the high-level conclusions!
I always feel like I should let people figure it out themselves, but then they get confused and frustrated and ask why I’m dumping irrelevant details on them.. 🥲🥲
@adelinej I love looking at maps of places I know. No matter what kinds of maps, even historical ones. But I love the feeling of reconciling the map and that abstracted out, systematic, zoomed out view with the experience I have of a place and a mental map that I’ve developed of it.
I spend hours looking at maps of places I’ve lived earlier in life or visited years ago
@mia I’ve been trying to explain why that way of reaching out to potential customers is creepy to other marketers using the metaphor of creepy flirting / pickup artists for ages.
But I’ll admit your joke managed to capture that way more concisely than I ever have!
The problem with federated alternatives to centralized services (and also one of the main problems with centralized services which lead people to look for an alternative) is Discovery.
Etsy and Twitch and YouTube provide an audience, supposedly. With the right pitch (and the right advertising dollars) you can get your own slice of that audience. (For as long as the algorithm graces you, and as long as you're willing to stomach the other things your viewers will be algorithmically suggested.)
@ajroach42 I can help actually. This is something I think about constantly and have been working on content exactly to answer that final part of how to scale curation and word of mouth.
I’d be happy to get on a call or set up an email thread to help you workshop this. Feel free to email me - Mariya(at)kalynamarketing.com
The more I learn about #history of the Soviet Union, the more I realize just how much my native #Ukraine was actively stifled, prevented from developing and innovating, and forced into this image of a backwards and hopeless nation.
Our people have always been so phenomenal, talented, ambitious, kind, and creative. But they’ve been punished, scared, and intimidated into a terrible subservient existence for so many decades and centuries.
I’m not an economist so I’m sure I am getting things wrong.
But my fundamental principle in politics and my life philosophy is the pursuit of long-term freedom and happiness for the largest number of people possible.
Some people need to be restrained because their greed and selfishness means their happiness costs too many others their freedom.
Corporations destroying the planet means short-term profit but long-term destroying freedom for us all.
@jon404 yes! That’s also why I kind of hate these labels of “communism”, “socialism”, and “capitalism” - they were made up over a hundred years ago by a couple of white dudes who had good observations but who weren’t some all-knowing gods.
They got a lot of things wrong AND the world has changed. I feel like we need new labels but coming up with those is tough
@gardenvarietylinguist yep, and I guess for me the “regulated” part is a catch all term that includes the sense that certain industries should be so regulated they are no longer really private.
I think more aspects of our societies need to be viewed as public good and taken out of the profit motive, for sure