Comments on: Unintended consequences

By: Notional Slurry » links for 2009-04-05

Notional Slurry » links for 2009-04-05 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:12 +0000

[...] Open Monologue » Unintended consequences "A couple of good thoughts about those unintended consequences we create out here on the social side of the internet. I think that many of us are putting ourselves online in a very open and honest way because we want to connect to people. I’m surprised how many people I’ve connected with online who describe themselves as introverts. Having some tools that allow people to connect, including those who find it difficult to connect in their analog lives, is a tremendous social good." (tags: social-norms social-networks social-dynamics personality enabling-technology consequences) [...]

By: Notional Slurry » links for 2009-04-05

Notional Slurry » links for 2009-04-05 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:12 +0000

By: Fear of Googled Past » CogDogBlog

Fear of Googled Past » CogDogBlog — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:44:14 +0000

[...] Wall’s excellent post on Unintended Consequences pinged me recently (Rob, you gotta stop selling yourself short on your writing, ok?). In reading [...]

By: Fear of Googled Past » CogDogBlog

Fear of Googled Past » CogDogBlog — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:44:14 +0000

[...] Wall’s excellent post on Unintended Consequences pinged me recently (Rob, you gotta stop selling yourself short on your writing, ok?). In reading [...]

By: Richard Schwier

Richard Schwier — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:59:38 +0000

I once heard another friend, also someone who was trying to create the same kind of change, say “We are all motived by primarily two things: love and fear.” Maybe.

One of the things is that we can’t deal with unintended consequences until they happen. That means we have to actually learn from our own histories, and I don’t know about you, but that is something I continue to struggle with. I don’t just make mistakes. I make them several times.

By: Richard Schwier

Richard Schwier — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:59:38 +0000

I once heard another friend, also someone who was trying to create the same kind of change, say “We are all motived by primarily two things: love and fear.” Maybe.

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:02:36 +0000

Ramble, shmamble, this is a very thoughtful post.

I’m having some new thoughts to what is nearly always trotted out as a “concern”:

it forces us to deal with words that might have been written long ago and in a much different frame of mind than one might have today.

This is said almost universally, but what does it really say? We have a rather deep seated fear about “looking bad” or being embarrassed, and sets up an expectation that a public profile should be Hollywood (or in .edu HarvardWood) perfect, that we should have no character flaws.

Fear is the strongest demotivator.

What if the world formed a “reputation” of you based on weighted more on what you’ve done lately, so that the bad clothes dressing of childhood or the toliet seat drinking photo is something to laugh at and cherish, not to be ashamed of?

What is this fear of “looking bad” cause it makes us strive for a false world image of flawless-ness.

With that, I implore a campaign of self sharing our embarrassing past moments; if more do it, and laugh, they may be minimized in the fear department (at least that is my utopian theory).

So here is my early sad statement of fashion sense:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/2608036844/