people prefer more immediate payoff, websites like facebook are some kind
of way to minimize peoples payoff time. "i'll post this, so all of my
friends know i said this really creative thing, instead of just telling one
person", "i can chat to 5 people at once in half the time, that way i am
guaranteed to build my friendships at a quicker rate". it's kind of a snack
culture thing, and immediately it seems to have a better payoff, but its
not very nourishing long term. there's also that the interconnectedness of
nodes is much higher, and there is less latency, things don't have to
travel by word of mouth.

i don't enjoy this approach, but i still do enjoy things like irc, a big
building where you can go into a particular room if today you want to ask
about bugs, or tomorrow want to learn about maths and its harder to do
something like this irl - so sometimes i appreciate immediacy, like when i
can just google something or check wiki.

i am amazed at how people add all these extra systems to their life, IM,
mobiles, facebook, instagram, twitter... and manage to maintain them all!
my plant just goes straight into meltdown when i try to do more than one of
these at once.

I try to have a design philosophy for life:
,---> Flat is better than nested,

|           Nested is better than networked,

\----- Networked is better than nothing.

On 13 March 2013 19:17, Joerg Platzer <joerg@???> wrote:

> Photos:
>
> Ancient celtic art was considered 'naive art' due to its lack of
> picturing 'real' thins and beings up until late las century. Only after our
> society had developed and fairly understood the concept of abstract art our
> historians realized, that that was actually what celtic art was.
>
> Those people back then were convinced that what we see as the real world
> was merely one possible interpretation (a picture) of eality. They found it
> ridiculous that other cultures waisted lifetime on making pictures of
> animals and fighters instead of going out and living that life and hunt
> and conquer. To them Greek statues were meaningless pictures of pictures.
>
> Whenever I visit a concert these days and I see half of the audience
> being busy making pics and videos it reminds me of that. They don't go
> there to see, hear, experience and feel life, they merely go there to
> produce proof that they were there.
>
> I for my part, when I die I want to take memories and emotions in my
> heart with me not pictures on my hard disk or on some facebook.
>
> Amir, I hope you backed up your private keys before you erased your
> disc!? ;)
>
>

> ++jp
>    *Von: *Amir Taaki
> *Gesendet: *Mittwoch, 13. März 2013 17:38 PM
> *An: *unsystem@???
> *Antwort an: *System undo crew
> *Betreff: *[unSYSTEM] i did something radical

>
> i did something radical yesterday. i deleted everything on my laptop
> except my code. i wiped everything - my videos, my music and my photos.
>
> if i want to listen to music, i can listen to danny play the guitar. if
> i want to watch a movie, i can go onto the street. i don't need photos
> and shouldn't live in the past, instead live in the moment.
>
> i started to fall into that trap of being insular. it's fun and seems
> like knowledge but you're missing the real thing by locking yourself
> away and cycling through videos on the internet.
>
> the internet reduced the passion in a relationship. instead of being
> about us, our attention started to revolve around the computer. these
> tools are meant to aid human relationships, not dominate them.
>
> no.
>
> my laptop is a tool for my craft. it is a revolutionary tool of work.
> when i open it, it is a tool of creation not consumption.
>
> i believe the real revolution is not banners, flags and manifestos. you
> are not winning anyone with talk. the revolution is culture. a party in
> the street wins more neighbours and relates to more people than any
> amount of protesting and rhetoric.
>
> we are counter-culture. our revolution is for counter-culture movements
> everywhere.
>
> --
> Jesus pirated bread. Gave it to hundreds.
>
> Baker: "we need better legislation."
>
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