As someone about to graduate college, weighing different properties and values to decide where I want to go in life, I really enjoyed reading this. I’ve loved a lot of your videos and share your interest in learning. I think there are some things I can take from what you’ve written and I appreciate you sharing! Good luck with whatever is next
I personally really found these insights helpful for how I'm assessing where I am in my life too, which is on a long branch I'm not entirely sure is the right one for me.
One thread I followed throughout your piece is this: respect that true objectivity is rare, and be humble enough to seek nuance, knowing that your assumptions or starting point are probably more arbitrary or subjective than they appear.
Reading into the MAUP you linked made me think about how it could apply to some of your other points like the changing respectability of a YouTube channel depending on audience scale, or someone slamming Toronto public transit as uniquely inadequate based on limited experience of or exposure to comparison points (thinking about it in terms of scale and zoning effects, respectively, I suppose!).
What came out of connecting these ideas, for me, was the sense that you really never know how arbitrary your starting point or initial analysis is on any given topic, however seemingly insignificant. Most of the time we avoid going crazy investigating every little assumption by using mental heuristics, and this is important. But it's a good habit to have to try to reconsider things at different levels and ways even just by asking someone else especially if just going ahead with your initial assumption could cause material harm to others.
Thanks for getting me to think on this afternoon 🌞
I generally think people could benefit from listening more, and being less quick to assume bad intentions. A lot of people are needlessly aggressive and hyperbolic, and its a good way to make a potentially valuable conversation worse!
For MAUP, I mentally think about it as how depending on how you define categorization you can tell different stories - and more broadly how quantitative data often ends up being subject to individual whims to an extent that is greater than one might expect!
I want to start by saying that, the dude who said that was a pos relying on the state of that rapidly degrading platform to get views but I know you’ve had a forward facing social media presence long enough to know this better than I ever will. Toronto has a presence of permanently online toxic folk that I block relentlessly because it’s extremely negative, unproductive, and too often quite bigoted...
On the bit about being on different channels, I feel as if this naturally occurs when groups of people that are similar enough congregate where despite efforts to make nuance it falls short.
In my field of academia which posses rather controversial topics, many people assume my stances placing their thoughts into what they think I said; negative or positive, it is frustrating being misunderstood and misrepresented.
You linked and referenced a number of interesting things in this article, i was surprised that when you were talking about confidence in public speaking outside of our areas of expertise, you didn't mention Nobel Disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
My proofing brain noted what I believe is a word error in "People will tell you that when you love that you do you won’t work a day in your life". I believe you mean "what" where you say "that".
If you ever want free proof reading, reach out. Your writing is great!
As someone about to graduate college, weighing different properties and values to decide where I want to go in life, I really enjoyed reading this. I’ve loved a lot of your videos and share your interest in learning. I think there are some things I can take from what you’ve written and I appreciate you sharing! Good luck with whatever is next
I'm happy to hear that, I wish you well!
I personally really found these insights helpful for how I'm assessing where I am in my life too, which is on a long branch I'm not entirely sure is the right one for me.
One thread I followed throughout your piece is this: respect that true objectivity is rare, and be humble enough to seek nuance, knowing that your assumptions or starting point are probably more arbitrary or subjective than they appear.
Reading into the MAUP you linked made me think about how it could apply to some of your other points like the changing respectability of a YouTube channel depending on audience scale, or someone slamming Toronto public transit as uniquely inadequate based on limited experience of or exposure to comparison points (thinking about it in terms of scale and zoning effects, respectively, I suppose!).
What came out of connecting these ideas, for me, was the sense that you really never know how arbitrary your starting point or initial analysis is on any given topic, however seemingly insignificant. Most of the time we avoid going crazy investigating every little assumption by using mental heuristics, and this is important. But it's a good habit to have to try to reconsider things at different levels and ways even just by asking someone else especially if just going ahead with your initial assumption could cause material harm to others.
Thanks for getting me to think on this afternoon 🌞
I generally think people could benefit from listening more, and being less quick to assume bad intentions. A lot of people are needlessly aggressive and hyperbolic, and its a good way to make a potentially valuable conversation worse!
For MAUP, I mentally think about it as how depending on how you define categorization you can tell different stories - and more broadly how quantitative data often ends up being subject to individual whims to an extent that is greater than one might expect!
Always happy to inspire some quiet thought!
I want to start by saying that, the dude who said that was a pos relying on the state of that rapidly degrading platform to get views but I know you’ve had a forward facing social media presence long enough to know this better than I ever will. Toronto has a presence of permanently online toxic folk that I block relentlessly because it’s extremely negative, unproductive, and too often quite bigoted...
On the bit about being on different channels, I feel as if this naturally occurs when groups of people that are similar enough congregate where despite efforts to make nuance it falls short.
In my field of academia which posses rather controversial topics, many people assume my stances placing their thoughts into what they think I said; negative or positive, it is frustrating being misunderstood and misrepresented.
I know that the person saying it is not serious, but their point is not likely to be unusual.
Blocking is a good idea.
You are right about channels, as well as academia.
You linked and referenced a number of interesting things in this article, i was surprised that when you were talking about confidence in public speaking outside of our areas of expertise, you didn't mention Nobel Disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
My proofing brain noted what I believe is a word error in "People will tell you that when you love that you do you won’t work a day in your life". I believe you mean "what" where you say "that".
If you ever want free proof reading, reach out. Your writing is great!
Nobel disease! Perhaps I should be concerned about who may have caught it.
Thanks for the note, you are correct and I will fix it! I already have an editor, but I appreciate your kind offer!