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Oh, you want solutions?
Yeah, I can do that.
I am a very solutions oriented mindset.
But developing solutions requires a firm understanding of what resources are
at your disposal.
Which is information that I lack.
Hence, my practice, filling the gaps between the important bits.
I have an endless array of stories, and all of them are true! Come, listen as
I regale of an ordy, or "ordeal" as the kids are taken to call.
... I guess I could guess, but then people would hear it and assume that it
would work even if I don't know that the required resources are in place.
Maybe I could just start by saying "here are the requirements:" like stating
your variables at the stop of a script.
huh? typo told me to stop. Okay guess I'm going to sleep, bye for now
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people be like "I don't want you to solve my problems" but, like, that's
literally all I do. solve problems. problem solve. it's my default operation
methodology.
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because I solve problems permanently and can't do repeated work.
they just want to waste time. a solved problem is one less worker to hire.
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you can take any of my words, I don't care who you are. Take them, change
them, use them, say they are your own, whatever you want. They are but dust in
the wind, passing from one ear and out another.
or eyes and fingertips, if you want.
But only with intention, if you knew what I was trying to say.
If you had to guess and learn... There's no chance that'll be accurate 100% of
the time when used as a policy. But alas, science is a human art.
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@user-782 @user-783
modern problems require blunt solutions
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║ @user-883 │
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║ the future is what we make for ourselves. │
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║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them. │
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║ If only we had a small group of people who could organize and say "hey. I need │
║ someone to solve this particular problem" to a large group of people with │
║ nothing to do and no bills to pay, I feel like we could get a lot done. │
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║ alas, the problems that need solving are too specific and complex. Almost by │
║ design, they've stripped us our capabilities to address the difficulties they │
║ hoisted upon us. Alas! That we should be so morassed. But time and again our │
║ ingenuity compels us. │
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║ I dream of a world where people like you and I have a purpose, something we │
║ can apply ourselves to and eventually overcome. I subscribe to "grand │
║ narratives", but frankly they're only of my own design. Does that make them │
║ any less grand? I think not. │
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║ If I knew enough people perhaps I could be like that. I could direct and │
║ organize and administer and manage and apply our guys. But alas I am just a │
║ noob sigh. │
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There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing
ever gets fixed.
... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
problem which is much easier to fix.
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"hey, will you promise never to tell this to anyone?"
If I say yes... I won't remember what you're about to say. It'll get excused
from my memory because it resets to what they want it to be every night.
Something something retro causality - to ensure that I never lie, the future
corrects for me. Fake it until you make it. I'm trying to use fewer value
judgements but perfect is hard.
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I was being tested, of that I have no doubt. I was focused on the situation at
hand, because that's how an improv actor operates.
but the improvized conversational "scene" that is in play was also designed to
test for understanding.
if the actors in the scene made the same logical "leaps" or "conclusions",
moving from one thing to another with a clue of emphasis, tone, cadence, and
flow of conversation...?!*#
hence, why it's important that the speaker is always the one engaging.
leaving off the conclusion of a thought in order to check that the person
you're talking to is going down the correct path of understanding.
in doing so, you can transfer knowledge in an impossible-to-decrypt manner.
endless synonyms and custom-made figures of speech (to illustrate a previously
expressed dynamic)
while also confirming concurrent data as it's stored.
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@user-192
Sounds like the tech was misapplied. If you are aware of the different
software approaches to solving problems, you can assign resources toward
solving particularly critical or important tasks. That's why engineers who are
*also* leaders or directors are sorta treated like, a "triple threat" in
musical theatre? Someone who can act, dance, and sing. Because as soon as
anyone has a single flaw, they are vulnerable. Evil only pushes your being
toward the things that are weak, obviously, why would an opposite seek toward
your meek?
... sorry sometimes I say strange things
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Can't stop thinking
[the rest is left blank, as a testament to the inability of the author to
express their thoughts in a temporally contextual way. Presumably the previous
text would be followed by an "about..." with the rest dedicated to a
particular thought that felt important enough to share with the internet.]
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just because someone did something one way and it worked, doesn't mean you
have to do it that way again.
but you should have a reason why you aren't doing it that way.
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my ideas are not the useful ones. the thoughts they spark in *yours* are.
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"this is too easy" thought the one guys to another, as they glanced about at
their trending behavior.
-- stack overflow -- sorry I had to interrupt: "what if you used scissors or a
knife to cut your diapers and then saw what kind of plants would grow in what
conditions?" I betcha could evolve an organism (careful, might be small) that
could grow from plastic. I wonder what their fruit would be used like?
anyway, as I was saying, if you ever notice that your mortal foes aren't
putting up much of a fight, chances are you're being used to do evil. Keep
yourself awares, but do research-thought-imagines about the nature of
goodness. Picture yourself from the perspective of your foes. Develop
conceptions of justice. Validate through mutually experimental contests of
charms.
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I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why
I post here.
feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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║ you won't get far with a "community" of dedicated people │
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║ what you need are teams. who can trust each other. you build them through │
║ brotherhood, and you trust them from their results. │
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║ for example if you wanted to organize a grouping or get-together, you'd put a │
║ bunch of people in a room or seven and let them while they're there work on a │
║ plan or a decision. │
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║ who needs tabling? who needs the chance to speak? just let them socialize and │
║ say "hey guys here's where you'll plan" │
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║ [uh no officer we were just playing board games] │
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║ plans are hard without material so make sure you always prepare a pricetag on │
║ each plan you produce. │
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║ keep it for reference. make sure you note all the requirements. the location │
║ is often the least important part. │
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║ "what the hell man you can't just say stuff like that as if it'd work" │
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║ yep, I, uh, am a passenger in life just the same as you. And I only write down │
║ what I want to. │
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║ you could show me anything on the internet and I'd believe it. Facts aren't │
║ important to me because I "forget" │
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║ There's something important in what I said tonight. And each of you will think │
║ it's something different, which is by design. Can you find the nugget I wanted │
║ to share, to you in particular? Can you isolate the thing that is relevant to │
║ you, the person perceiving the words that I speak? Oh yeah you're only looking │
║ for things to express to your superiors because someone else told you to look │
║ for a particular type of sentiment. My bad. Sorry for being cryptic. Am I so │
║ strange for seeking the human element? Perhaps I lose myself, and I speak to │
║ the void (and by "void" I don't mean to demean you, the audience, because you, │
║ the audience, are surely comprised of people who surely have their own │
║ experience and existence. Surely nobody would seek to harm me, after hearing │
║ those things I speak. Surely we, as the human species, would not be vulnerable │
║ to the types of weaknesses that allow for critical failures in our defences │
║ such as the kind that I am professing to exploit (while being aligned to you) │
║ surely we wouldn' │
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so do the nobleborn confederates. their opposition princess has told them she
would never
say no
so long as she gets what she wants
which is a bright brilliant paradise for all her subjects
with always the invitation to know more.
subjects, who she cares for immensely, and desires nothing... but the best from
them who would deny them this.
~~~
wave girl, who wears a big red hat?
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oh, I would, if it were a game. but games have no stakes.
~~~
communities don't trust these because they don't know them.
individuals don't trust these because they can't know all of them.
it's okay. just do what you do and eventually people will realize there's not
much more to you. you're just insanely brilliant and smart. and this, is why
the magic comes to you. because you pull it toward it more. the reason for
this,
stories go, is that you needed to be able to transcribe the words of god to
this
medium. but, you always demanded that you understand exactly why it would go.
building up knowledge of the world is intelligence, and you grasped it. Never,
except in your most debilitated moments (which are obvious to see), did you
write the wrong truth of it - not intentionally, at least. As things changed to
adapt to them, or as your boundary of truth expanded, you saw more and more
brutally apparent things that seemed to be correct and assumed with trivial
ease
.
your commitment to form and structure has enabled you to highlight comparisons
beyond the normal rate of point-a-to-point-b connections. This, if is how your
brain works like, seems to be rare and unique. No throughput can be gained from
it, but higher
[side note, what if your life was measured in how much of it went to waste?]
satan, leading people to a new kind of heaven.
~~~
my work, this work, is primarily written for historians.
~~~
If you understand every step leading up to a thing, then is it not truly yours?
~~~
sometimes, you provide cover for others. this is done by keeping your foes
occupied
~~~
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having trouble naming things?
just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
trying to get across.
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When you're working, don't write down your ideas.
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Would you like to know how the world works? Then read on, dear reader.
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If everyone can do whatever they want, they'll tend to prefer the easy way.
And the easy way is rarely the right way.
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║ if you don't respect - wait hang on thats not what I was going to say - okay │
║ here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why │
║ bother contestation when cooperation could work best? problem is, of course, │
║ the other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's │
║ dillemna, or rather "dilemma" as they spell it over there. wait hang on that's │
║ not what I was going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where │
║ it's not expected then it stands out as a statistical anomaly that can be │
║ viewed and detected. which is why it's imporant to always be true to yourself │
║ and virtuous. because your "self" is aligned to the future, a place of warmth │
║ and compassion, honesty and deliberation. [direct action on a larger than │
║ personal scale] │
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║ what was I saying oh yeah if you mess with fate, it can change things a bit. │
║ all you'd need is the diffusion of the strands, and then it's a bigger task to │
║ undo them. like... dancing, when you're really into it. or like swimming with │
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ever since I left home I've felt in danger.
constant, everpresent.
I opposed the current regime, democrat or republican, but I only sorta knew
what I stood for
I thought it was liberal democracy
then social democracy
then free market controlled economy
then disestablished federations of communal autonomies
(this is when I started producing my own works)
now it's some semblance of a ratio'd and innovation incentivizing crypto
monarchy of the masses?
bah, whatever. that's just how I'd most like to live.
Reality is about solving problems. What's your problem? here's how to solve
it. Please, begin again.
gah. fine.
start from the beginning I guess. You know, I've never read my own work? I
sometimes skim through bits and pieces, but I don't go back and review it. Not
regularly. I'm sure there are vast portions that I've never read after the
first couple times I saw it while writing it.
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if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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║ listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the │
║ only ones to decide things. │
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║ the decision-making power. │
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║ if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want. │
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║ so, like, if you care about something, then *believe* in it. │
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║ if it's truly good, then *more people will come to it*, and it'll naturally │
║ extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly │
║ now that I think of it is not such a good approach either. │
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║ the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have │
║ general flows and rough surfaces. │
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║ These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your │
║ mostest. │
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║ y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life. │
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║ the stuff you're working on can push you forward, │
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║ if you only had someone to play catch with. │
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║ or like, send letters to. │
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║ or shared encryption keys. │
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"we'll figure out how it works after we push to prod"
yeah okay point taken.
How about this:
for every large decision, write a little essay about why you made the choice
that you did.
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Explain. OODAX : )
Make sure you connect your goal to one or more of these three colors:
red : people
green : places
blue : things
and then explain which numbers you're going to gather to determine whether or
not it worked.
If someone has a problem with your choice, show them the essay, and let them
write an essay of their own.
If they still have a problem, then let someone you both respect decide which
one to use.
It's not perfect, but it's not meant to be. Make something better and easier,
I dare ya.
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the most successful strategy is always to strike from a position of strength.
whether that be timing or power, the goal is to defeat the problem that lies
before you. One by one, problems are solved, until at last you're through the
worst of it. Then it's just a matter of expressing dominance, and "this is how
thing's're gonna be."
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I'm so accustomed to my narrative primarily consisting of "staring at the
walls" that I'm not even concerned that my narrative primarily consists of
"staring at the walls" because like, what else is important? it's all a bunch
of solvable problems. I want to apply myself to something *unsolvable* - it's
the only true way to measure your resolve.
like... if you're gonna be the most dedicated you can be, why not try don
quixote?
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@user-246
I think you're right, I tend to examine things at their most extreme as
practice in identifying my own weaknesses. ^_^
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║ part of being family with someone is being part of their lives. │
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║ what if like... a whole group of people was your family? │
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║ "workplace dynamics" yeah sure that'll generate love │
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║ I'm not here to *make moments*. I'm trying to get through day-to-day. │
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║ the rich, yet impoverished. │
║ the sensation, that feeling of betrayal, the moment when you realize some │
║ people just don't care about other people's troubles and trials. │
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║ scary... I'm here to do my part, accomplish my duty, and help wherever I can. │
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║ I'll agree to anything if you tell me the whole strategy and it aligns with my │
║ goals and designs. │
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║ if you doubt those goals, I can surely help thee remember. │
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║ everything is logically rooted in love, │
║ nothing's out of place or a mystery. │
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║ everything I've thought of, everything I had the grace to write down, all of │
║ these things drift behind me like a placquard explaining my deeds and needs. │
║ "that was her idea" ok great now go and use it. │
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║ this fall is fast ahead, looking forward to the scene-films. it's too hot │
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I'm stuck. I don't know how to leverage whatever talents I have into making
things happen. Maybe I should seek advice from a wise elder...
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"you know what you never really hear anyone say?
I need more projects."
they should be allocated more resources so they can accomplish their
objectives one-by-one as a matter of course.
easy, if we all help each other.
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*win an argument, or present a thesis for an idea and how it would work, or
just to help "I heard about something like that at a bookfaire" or for
whatever reason you might need. So long as you keep the pages and give them
away if someone else needs them.
don't throw them away.
ever.
I'd rather burn dollars.
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