qyng's observational notes
Nov 12, 20201
qyng
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A testing ground for seedling notes on personal curiosities 🌱
Many interests but they mainly land within developmental psychology, digital anthropology and human-centred design
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QON #2: —
Collective decision-making and the mechanics of trust
Arguably one thing that has emerged from 2020 has been the concept of trust surfacing from its deep background operations of relationship maintenance. Due to some work on a project earlier in the year, I was able to have the briefest of insights into the dynamics of trust on an organisational playing field, and I don't think I've heard the term being batted about more - demands for more (or even less) of it between various parties, the consequences in the absence of it, multiple strategies for its restoration. At the same time, I don't think I heard any definitions being shared during these... (read more)
Similar thoughts. How one organisation defines "experiment" may be different to another, or how the employees themselves could interpret (business speak vs weasel). There's also the factors of company values and culture which provide the guardrails for what "experimentation", along with other hefty words such as "productivity" (depth of work vs breadth vs quality vs so on), means to them specifically. Assuming the employees have bought into those values for the most part (and hopefully why they became employees in the first instance) maybe there's an implied, unique understanding of these terms.
Such broad concepts are often used to paint employee satisfaction surveys, and might appear to policy-sneak, but it's easy to miss... (read more)
Hey LessWrong, new member here. I'm a Psych major from Australia who's still figuring out things out. I discovered LW through Effective Altruism through 80 000 hours through.. I've forgotten but most likely Internet stumbling.
I'd been feeling the itch to write as a way to express and iron out my thoughts, but it's taken me somewhere near a decade to get around to writing anywhere publicly online. So here we are. Looking forward to engaging, discussing and chiming in more with the LW community.
QON #1: —
The Internet's such an interesting place, culturally. For instance, the conceptions of age and linguistics.
In conversation, if someone uses a certain word there's a millisecond judgment of whether they're part of the in-group or the out-group. Particular turns of phrase are used by X, Y or Z generations (Alphas can't speak yet, or at least just in babbles) to find familiarity. Understandable, especially in the wild west of the digital landscape where there are no physical bodies to gauge whether another person is a threat. But one of the most interesting things is that this language is taken outside of the digital sphere and utilised as another bonding tactic in someone's... (read more)
QON #3: —
A few thoughts:
1) what people (everyone, but more so those currently in their 20s and 30s) do over the next decade will formulate the backbone of society. As the people who were born too early to capitalise on changes to technology and born too late to experience the golden era of the digital boom, Gen Y and Gen Z have the capacity to understand both worlds i.e. the Bridging Generations. The unique position this creates means pulling forward the ancient into the contemporary, a skill of synthesis and creativity. (Time is a relative construct anyway right)
2) this generation will fail to provide adequate scaffolding for the later generations (Generation Alpha... (read more)