Re: actionability
Dave Pollard posits some ideas regarding actionability as the most important attribute of knowledge:
[...] most bloggers and blog readers, for example, are looking in the 'echo chamber' for confirmation of what they already believe [...]
[...] confirmation seems to be more an excuse for inaction (‘if we all agree, surely someone else is likely to do something about it’) than a provocation to action.
[...] we talk because we have to do something but are at a loss as to what to do, so we just go on chattering in endless circles, a dance that accomplishes nothing.
I’m beginning to wonder if language isn’t actually an impediment to learning and an impediment to change, forcing us to ‘abstract’ everything we perceive and think before we can understand what it ‘means’. Our instincts seem much quicker and more adept at this than our conscious minds.
-- Dave Pollard, Too Much Talk, Not Enough Action: But What To Do?
Dave wants to quiet down the chatter in both directions... My New Years Resolution Intention is to stick my neck out a bit further; shift consumption/production balance: too much reading, listening, watching, and passive learning and connecting; too little doing, sharing, collaborating, debating, showing.
...hmmOops: I made a similar declaration a few New Year's ago.
comments
Those are some interesting thoughts on reading/commenting on blogs. Good luck with your shift towards increased production. Are there any new things you'll be working on? Software, music, government coup d’état?
-- Kevin (January 5, 2007 7:05 PM)
In the web/tech/blogosphere, I want to write more and share more of what I write, whether it's pome, prose, or code.
In music/dance/art, essentially the same: play with others and perform more often.
The idea (or part of the idea) is to get past hangups like not-good-enough and just share what is and what I have.
I'm not good enough to launch a coup d'état.
-- jeffschuler (January 10, 2007 2:28 PM)
see Paul Buchheit's "Perfect" is the enemy of "good enough", and
-- jeffschuler (April 16, 2007 9:59 PM)