> There is one other use case for identity, and yes, it is decentralized and bottom-up, because it is about dividing into secure, self-sovereign affinity groups, and the reasons for doing that are on a very short list of uses. Super fun, but basically a weapon.
A weapon against who? A self sovereign affinity group could just be a community trying to self organize without relying on non-owned infrastructure. Aka prepper stuff.
There’s a tragedy of commons problem in engineering. The engineering orgs collective ability to handle complexity is the community resource. Without safeguards in place this resource is squandered by engineers because the easy solution to a problem often paradoxically leads to higher complexity in the code base. Why? Because it’s easier to make ad-hoc new connections between things than to abide by a larger plan. And connections are the complexity.
One thing I’ve noticed that sometimes leads to this idea is using a “survival of the fittest” approach to percolating ideas.
Does anyone else remember being taught in Econ 101 about globalization and comparative advantage and how great it is? Either the educators didn't know this would happen or it was a campaign to sell the public on the idea. Or maybe it was just bad teaching. I wonder which one it was.
Strictly focusing on minimizing risk to life imo leads to practices that neglect quality of life. Imagine if keeping your baby isolated at night meant that later in her life she would have trouble trusting the world and would as a result be handicapped when it comes to making and keeping healthy relationships. That's what some folks believe will happen.
The constant skin to skin contact between baby and mom from cosleeping and breastfeeding is believed by some psychologists to contribute to baby's healthy psychological development. Humans are highly social animals. I'm amazed and sad it's common practice to isolate babies for such a large portion of the day.
We coslept with our first and are now doing it with our 2nd who is still a newborn. We're 3 weeks in and are already close to getting enough sleep each night.
My therapy involves periods of getting in touch with my body, e.g. tension in my forehead or tightness in my chest, and then as I focus and try to be present with the sensations, words tend to pop into my mind that often yield insights into suppressed feelings and ideas. There's a book that nicely presents the therapy technique named body centered psychotherapy by Ron Kurtz.
I wonder if focusing on ones heartbeat employs the same underlying mechanisms that help self-insights happen.
I wonder how long until a critical mass of people get fed up with the resource hogging of the ultra rich. Seems likely to happen at some point if current trends in wealth inequality continue.
A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases.
Run the examples to see what it does, try to build something with it to get a deeper understanding of the depth of its capability, then finally dive into the code itself by fixing a bug or adding a feature or even just playing around and changing stuff. Join the developer channels and ask questions. People usually love it when you show an interest in what they've built.