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<h2>Latest gomepost</h2>
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<a class='journal-link' href='journal/thrombus.html'>
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<h3>Basics of thrombus</h3>
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<time datetime='Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:00:00 CST'>17 Mar 2023, 11:00 PM</time>
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<p>Not the medical term, it’s an awesome four square variant</p>
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<a class='journal-link' href='journal/garden-gate.html'>
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<h3>Show us the garden, not the gate</h3>
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<time datetime='Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:30:00 CST'>20 Mar 2023, 11:30 PM</time>
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<p>People might not understand your perspective, but if it’s valuable, the results will speak for themselves</p>
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<title>gome — garden gate</title>
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<h1 id='title'>Show us the garden, not the gate</h1>
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<time datetime='Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:30:00 CST'>20 Mar 2023, 11:30 PM</time>
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<p>
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Suppose you’ve spent a lot of time thinking and reading about philosophy.
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You’ve taken what you’ve learned together with your life experience, and come up with your own way of thinking about things.
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Eventually, you get the sense that you might have a sort of theory or system you could share with other people, which would allow them to have insights similar to what you’ve had.
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So you dedicate all your time trying to get just the right framing that will help people “get it” like you do.
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In the spirit of “teaching a man to fish”, you want to pass on the keys to your perspective to others.
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I think there is a good intention here, but it’s not always the most effective approach.
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It seems kind of like growing an incredible garden with all sorts of things blooming inside it and then spending all your time taking pictures of the garden gate.
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Many really bright people get stuck at this stage.
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It might be philosophy or some other realm of thought that benefits from perspective & insight, and can theoretically be taught (e.g. art, spirituality).
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People will realize they have something potentially valuable to share, and then they set about trying to find the right way to introduce their perspective to other people.
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This in itself is not a problem; if it’s a good perspective, then it’s a good thing to try to share.
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I think the problem comes when trying to teach your perspective gets in the way of sharing its fruits.
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<img src='img/garden_gate.webp' width='375' height='500' />
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<figcaption>Photo credit: <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garden_gate,_in_grand_style_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3520390.jpg#Licensing' target='href'>Pauline E</a></figcaption>
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People will not necessarily understand or agree with a novel perspective, but if it’s valuable, the results will speak for themselves.
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Often those results speak far more eloquently than the individual might be capable of.
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Using the example of art, I would rather see the art someone makes than hear their ideas about art.
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If their art resonates with me, I will naturally want to understand where it comes from, and I’ll probably start working backwards from what I like about it towards my own ideas.
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This is the value of “show, don’t tell” for ideas.
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If you simply try to reproduce your perspective in other people, you face all kinds of difficulties, because everyone is different.
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They will be drawing on different experiences and their own ideas.
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If you give people something tangible, something that resonates with them, something they can respond to,
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they’ll be able to use it build on their own perspective.
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When it comes to something more nebulous like philosophy, what does sharing the fruits of your perspective look like?
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Perhaps it’s applying your ideas to real-life situations, or even sharing how your perspective interacts with other people’s ideas.
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I think the key thing to avoid here is too much self-reference, and the key thing to seek is “nucleation sites”, or opportunities for your ideas to grow, interact with other ideas, and flourish.
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Do you have a perspective you want to share with other people?
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Have you tried teaching it systematically?
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Have you tried sharing the fruits of your perspective?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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<h3>Show us the garden, not the gate</h3>
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<p>People might not understand your perspective, but if it’s valuable, the results will speak for themselves</p>
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<h3>Basics of thrombus</h3>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:30:00 CST</pubDate>
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<h1 id='title'>Basics of thrombus</h1>
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<time datetime='Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:00:00 CST'>16 Mar 2023, 11:00 PM</time>
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<time datetime='Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:00:00 CST'>17 Mar 2023, 11:00 PM</time>
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Let’s continue on with the discussion of summertime activities today.
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When I was younger, we used to play four square on the driveway.
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A diagram giving the measurements for the thrombus court we played on.
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I’ve found since making this that an 8″ wallace works a little better than the 1′ given here.
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A better standard size might be 10′ from one flat face of the hexagon to the opposite one.
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A better standard size might be 10′ from one flat face of the hexagon to the opposite one.
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