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  1. Can I flip this?

    I expend a lot of time and energy thinking about technology. I’m often trying to share some idea with others, or trying to make a change in the world. But year by year I’m shifting to spending more of that time and energy simply deciding what technology I want to adopt. Mastodon and the corresponding ActivityPub technology which creates the Fediverse is a great example. Should I join in on that new technology and create a presence there?

    Grasping the value of new technology requires imagination. But unless you have skin in the game that doesn’t seem worth the effort because technology is supposed to make things easier and simpler, not wrack your brain.

    ~ Morgan Housel, from Why New Technology Is A Hard Sell

    slip:4ucobo16.

    Housel’s covers that, and three other intriguing points about why new technology is a hard sell. I’m left wondering could I use the points raised in the article to help me make decisions about technology? If I flip the article’s thinking over (from an others-directed “why doesn’t technology get adopted” direction to a self-directed “why I might not adopt technology” direction) then I can ask myself corresponding questions. For example, for the quoted point above, I can ask: Am I engaging my imagination at all when considering some piece of technology? (Aside: I decided, yes, and you can search for @[email protected] wherever you are in the Fediverse.)

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    #7ForSunday #DecisionFatigue #MorganHousel #Technology

  2. I waffled on my title. I started a draft with the current title, which is simply item #7 plucked from Housel’s post. Later, I misread it as “Irreverant…” and, even after noticing my speling error, still thought myself clever; “Haha, yes, I am irreverant in all circumstances.” Which my mind then toggled back to “irrelevant” and, “Yes, I am probably also irrelevant in all circumstances.” Ouch.

    The firehose makes it easy to mirror the poor Oxford boy: since information is free and ubiquitous but adding context has a mental price, the path of least resistance is to know facts without a clue where they go or whether they’re useful.

    ~ Morgan Housel from, https://collabfund.com/blog/different-kinds-of-information/

    And no, it’s not at all a diss on [a]social media. It’s a terrific little post listing different kinds of information. I’d love to be a source of a large amount of #2 and #4. But if I’m being honest, I’m more a source of #5. …and #7, I definitely generate a lot of that. Maybe even some of #8—but only in the, “oh my gawd, no! Spit that out!” sort of way.

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    #2 #4 #5 #7 #7-for-sunday #experience-and-learning #knowledge-systems #morgan-housel #wisdom

    https://constantine.name/2023/07/09/irrelevant-in-all-circumstances/

  3. Creativerly 226 is out featuring

    Tools: #Spacedrive, #Webstudio, and fresh updates and news from #Coda (AI Integration), #Uizard (Autodesigner), and #DETA (New website and docs).

    Articles: #GregMcKeown (#HarvardBusinessReview), #MorganHousel (#CollaborativeFund), #MarkManson, #JuddAntin

    Read the whole issue here: creativerly.com/a-file-explore

  4. Creativerly 226 is out featuring

    Tools: #Spacedrive, #Webstudio, and fresh updates and news from #Coda (AI Integration), #Uizard (Autodesigner), and #DETA (New website and docs).

    Articles: #GregMcKeown (#HarvardBusinessReview), #MorganHousel (#CollaborativeFund), #MarkManson, #JuddAntin

    Read the whole issue here: creativerly.com/a-file-explore

  5. Creativerly 226 is out featuring

    Tools: #Spacedrive, #Webstudio, and fresh updates and news from #Coda (AI Integration), #Uizard (Autodesigner), and #DETA (New website and docs).

    Articles: #GregMcKeown (#HarvardBusinessReview), #MorganHousel (#CollaborativeFund), #MarkManson, #JuddAntin

    Read the whole issue here: creativerly.com/a-file-explore

  6. Creativerly 226 is out featuring

    Tools: #Spacedrive, #Webstudio, and fresh updates and news from #Coda (AI Integration), #Uizard (Autodesigner), and #DETA (New website and docs).

    Articles: #GregMcKeown (#HarvardBusinessReview), #MorganHousel (#CollaborativeFund), #MarkManson, #JuddAntin

    Read the whole issue here: creativerly.com/a-file-explore