It's an ugly site btw. Not really ready for prime-time. But I
wanted to literally "collect my thoughts" since I was about 11
yrs old and made a thing with a roll of calculator paper, a
piece of wood, a pencil to roll it on and a pencil attached to
it with a piece of string. That was my first "thought collector"
and I'm 43 now. So many efforts through the years but this one
has been the easiest to maintain. I'm just dumping it _all_ in
and hoping it'll self-organize somehow tongue emoticon Once I
ran it through a dewey decimal classifier to see what the AI
thought my thoughts should go in a standard library
classification system. I learned a lot from that, did a
statistical analysis.. and figured out what my main focuses seem
to be that *I didn't know* about. Epistemology. Time. There's a
quite a few others, that I have ranked according to various
metrics. I figure the better I know myself from as many angles
as possible, the better I'll understand humanity. Even if I
don't understand humanity, doesn't matter. At least I'll get
_one guy_ figured out, ventually. Me smile emoticon That's
something smile emoticon == I believe its doable. Here's one of
the most effective methods I figured out for myself: Find out
where your assumptions come from. Not just the obvious ones.
Look at psychological movements that were popular when you were
young. Was the "be yourself" movement popular? [it was in my
time] Who started it? What is their philosophy? You start
pricking beneath the surface of your own thought patterns and
you start to see a HUGE HISTORY of archetypes behind you.
Unexpected archetypes. People you never even NOTICED before.
More and more you start seeing how you're put together. A unique
puzzle - never come before, never to come again. Unique. nothing
like you anywhere. It's just not possible for there to be
another Jes Scott. Even if you had a clone you'd have different
histories from that point forward. It's humbling and empowering
at the same time. == ==
