Grant Avery
JA WestenbergThe future isn’t exhausting because of how fast it moves.
It’s exhausting because nothing ever stays still long enough to master it.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-exhaustion-of-permanent-disruption
Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)@Daojoan "The most productive people I know have a defensive near-conservatism about their tools. They find something that works and they stick with it as long as possible....."
Thank you for this paragraph. It's very validating. 😊
James Endres Howell"Near-conservatism?"
Case matters! Consider C and c.
"Conservatism" means "violent bigoted hateful white-supremacist racist sexist self-aggrandizing solipsistic grasping stupid ignorant rigid stubborn anti-human cruel sadistic petty infantile self-defeatingly self-destructively vindictive bronze-age omnicidal willfully-ignorant know-nothing anti-rationalist superstitious hidebound joyless prudish masochistic bootlicking blindly allegiant cultically faithful self-hating death-wish cowardly cringing terrified paranoid closeted perversion."
While "conservatism" means "cautious skepticism regarding investment in change."
One I will give my life to defeat, the other I have lived long enough to recommend.
Coach Pāṇini ®
Ben Zanin@syntaxseed @Daojoan *puppet guilty side-eye meme format of me looking over at all the emacs people, including myself*
@Daojoan Does your blog have an RSS feed? I can't seem to find it. 😁
Mastodon MigrationConjures up thoughts of the apprentice blacksmith spending a decade to become a journeyman and then another to become a master.
Manic@Daojoan Definitely an Interesting take, a thought process that can be inferred across to multi possibilities in the work place not just the IT world. Are we setting aside time allocated for these work disruptions in work places? Or just told to accept them as they appear, to prioritise and still complete everything with no additional time allocated?
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Toni Aittoniemi@Daojoan It’s also the death of patience.
Without patience a lot of things go, too. With patience we tolerate people who we don’t like, we wait for things to get better, and we build resilience.
It should be no surprise we’re seeing racist snowflake hair-trigger karens everywhere now.
The collapse in the art of reading dead tree books contributed to the lack of patience.
Stefan Johansson, MD PhD@Daojoan excellent post, and fully agree to all. One thing that also comes into play is one old human survival feature, ie curiosity. I think we also have some part of this disruptive culture, we are attracted and want to try new things too. But with new things coming up every day, this indeed creates exhaustion!
Side-effect of so-called #polycrisis?
J4YC33 ❌@paninid @Daojoan Part of it, for sure. But if we look at the sociotechnological development of the recent world, people don't even have time to master games they play before an update completely re-wrtes everything. It's not just in video gaming, either. Look at Warhammer, Warmachine, Arkham Horror, Dungeons and Dragons. In the last 15 years there have been multiple versions of all of those game "engines" released.
New Crochet and Knitting techniques are completely changing fiber arts every few years. New tools fundamentally change arts and crafts regularly, although mastery of arts and crafts is a little different here, but it's a similar problem.
There's a constant exhaustion in extant masters and experts dealing with continuing education that is fundamentally revolutionary more and more often. Field changing events used to be rare. Now, it's common place.
There's a necessary epistemology and life satisfaction that comes from being able to master a hobby, or a craft. In most walks of life, because of the number of humans marching towards inevitable progress and this belief that we must have a complete and comprehensive understanding in order to be competent experts in a field. Largely because capitalistic roles have made that the case. We don't get to have colleagues to rely on, we have to be islands unto ourselves, otherwise we aren't experts, right?