ETL to QE, Update 63, Realizing where we are
Date: 2025-02-16
I am yet reminded that Greatness is Other People
I have not written a single one of these "ETL to QE" posts with another person in mind. And I have been writing them for a year and a half now. That needs to change.
I am completely obsessed with developing a new social media medium but don't actually engage on any real level on social media anywhere.
My twitter account seems blacklisted. The followers on my Nostr account are from people that attended my workshops. I don't engage on Linkedin because I find it cringe and overwhelming. I don't engage on Discord because I find it over complicated and overwhelming. I don't engage on Instagram because I don't take photos of stuff.
I have lived my life for the last 5 years under the assumption that I would develop this magical medium, recompile my social media data to it, then use it to influence the people and communities I value via a meme map.
It is time to exit this loop of recursive self cognition and start playing the game to challenge the rules.
So what is my audience here supposed to be? How do I start defining and living by the values of Human Instrumentality.
How do you scale your will across individuals? is a question I asked years ago, but it is not the right question.
--- Thich Nhat Hanh
I guess I am a teacher, I don't feel like one but I am too scared to go seek one because I am too dam scatter brained. It has been 8 years since I took that source at Ryerson about Design Documents, failing it twice even though I valued the content and professors. I have still not learned my lesson.
The principals of User Centered Design design truly resonate with Human Instrumentality.
I can't even play my own life that effectively.
Yet I seek out others to and try to play them according to my own playbook, a playbook that I haven't been able to play on myself.
What is this playbook?
Well is was pretty well articulated in ETL to QE, Update 62, Cultivating a Demo Pilled Community. Cultivating the mememaps.net community via real world meetups is part of the playbook. Scheduling the Nerd Show and Tell Meetup to force myself and other to try and deliver something meaningful is pretty on brand. But there is something missing.
The cognition loop is incomplete. To win I need to start acting and behaving like a true leader, the archetype of a CEO. If that can't be done the vision will have to be given to and executed by someone else.
So if I was given the task to help someone else on their project how would I treat them?
I would start by asking what problem they are trying to solve and interrogate via intuition from there trying to focus on people and their problems rather than technology and its beauty.
We haven't even delivered the ETL to QE project but we will need to summon a strong hand from my subconscious to get it done.