Research topic: Am I a line of code?
Chapter 1. 12.02.2021
Abstract: the creating flow and why will creator come to Web3?
In every case, moreover, the very richness of these interactions allows the system as a whole to undergo spontaneous self-organization.
---M. Mitchell Waldrop
I tried to record my inspiration flow during one day, it is what it looks like:
I walked on my way to the gym and have been told its closed because of the close Covid case, and on my way back, Spotify played the song:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uG7RbrJSq5bZWv7ufDyTg?si=nFLN3B9zR8iSKfjUk7ILNA
Having a debate in head: “We lived in such a variation, behind the massive changes and variation, there might just be just one equation, to produce and stimulate what we saw. If everything is changing, what is not changed? I kept testing the reality by putting myself in a conventional high-risk and unpredictable situation, I wish to compare the consequences to conventional lower-risk life choices, but what has been changed after I started going with the flow? I may never know. “
Had a discussion about Dune with Cali and I archived our whole conversation into Wechat “Favorites”, where you can store all documents there, then I found it has theWeb3 logic in this Web 2 tool, Wechat had everything about what the blockchain trend indicates: from personal data storage, NFT conversion, personal search engine to database categories and use Tag feature to build constructive category system! It is a personal Metaverse so to say, you have all your experience and memory recorded and archived in a social media platform!
4. Then I browsed my Twitter feeds and saw one response to a question: -"What is feeling? - “We are entering a cultural reality where subjective experience supersedes objective consensus. ”
--Is it your first time to receive the indication that existence of most things are based on our individual conscious reflection？
5. Ming shared with me his graphed workflow about building a VR project, I looked into the product flow and told Ming my passion is about research on the most irrelevant and absurd topics now, then later on I found this link appeared in my chat group:
http://philosophyandtechnology.network/yuk-hui/
I found it is a research center on philosophy and tech, I saw their contact and write an email.
--I feel I have been receiving powerful and obvious hints from everywhere each time I have a strong feeling about doing certain things, I took it as a coincidence for most of the time until it became an ordinary phenomenon.
6. Then I contacted a friend who was the DJ for an event I hosted, invited him for an interview, and said to him we will cover the transportation fee for him if he came along for the interview discussion. He answered like: you are a trusted friend so I will not ask you for the fee. I shared with Ming and he said I was credited with good quality, then I came to think what if we live in a world based on the credit system from others judgment just like in the Black Mirror, I hope there are more sincere and authentic reviews from others, but still, that world might be either too chaotic or ideal.
It is a pretty spontaneous thinking flow, isn’t it? But it looks like a normal day for most people, so I start to seek advice from a few people who are familiar with the thinking graphs and creator working process.
Jessie is a founding team member from Fat Garage and she was one who told me to take notes on my thinking flow, as she also is an advocate for Roam Research, a useful tool to record a person’s research logic in a database graph.
I asked Jessie one question about my thinking flow, I was surrounded by so many ideas and inspirational conversations every day, I often feel overwhelmed and kept wondering what I could make a better analysis of my logic and the thinking process.
By starting with Roam, I kept asking myself what is holding people back from communicating in a more efficient way? As in the last chapter, I mentioned language is a curse to humans to think without a social border. What if we show others our logic flow and thinking process instead of finding a way to express it, a lot of problems will be solved then. But how to make it analytical and visualized?
Many times, the conventional coordination process is proved to be not productive enough, to demolish individual creativity and one has to compromise a lot to work in a group. What if we could improve the method of communication? Or even the communication logic?
Web.3 builder’s initiatives are to prioritize individual creativity by creating the platform to incentive creators by token and social exposure more than ever, then the capital flew in and caught more people’s attention, and it made people think we are like the cavemen walking out of the dark and slow era of our coordination process and old-fashioned economical environment, there is a lot to build and a lot to achieve in order to take more people out of the cave.
Yet, the coordination issue has not been particularly solved, we started to realize the failure of the old system but yet have a better system to replace it, but build another world order from the scratch, like the infidel under suppression. We only wish to get out the current suppression, while figuring out what is a well-established future for us, I guess there is no time for us to think, at the edge of awakening, everyone just hopes to run the fastest and furthest, then we can look back and see what we have been done wrongly, it is the beauty of the universe as well.
Web3 is already here to evolve with us on every single breath, maybe it is already there at the very beginning?