I like the idea of this and would want to participate because I believe in the goals of the project. However, just reading your post and thinking about the examples was a good reminder of how much work it might be to be a good non-tribal citizen. Considering whether your examples are good things for a future tribeless tribe to act upon …
I like the idea of this and would want to participate because I believe in the goals of the project. However, just reading your post and thinking about the examples was a good reminder of how much work it might be to be a good non-tribal citizen. Considering whether your examples are good things for a future tribeless tribe to act upon was something that required actual concentration. Something I felt I should do but wasn't sure I had the energy for. I was tempted to just go back to twitter, where I could more lazily scroll through a carefully screened series of tweets not requiring so much concentration.
And while I am being a downer (sorry), I also wanted to mention that as the audience for the parrot room podcast has grown, there seem to be more commenters there who are more tribal than thoughtful. It is a less fun place to hang out if you don't like tribalism than it used to be. I wish there was a way to change the incentives for the commenters there so they'd be less tribal.
I like the idea of this and would want to participate because I believe in the goals of the project. However, just reading your post and thinking about the examples was a good reminder of how much work it might be to be a good non-tribal citizen. Considering whether your examples are good things for a future tribeless tribe to act upon was something that required actual concentration. Something I felt I should do but wasn't sure I had the energy for. I was tempted to just go back to twitter, where I could more lazily scroll through a carefully screened series of tweets not requiring so much concentration.
And while I am being a downer (sorry), I also wanted to mention that as the audience for the parrot room podcast has grown, there seem to be more commenters there who are more tribal than thoughtful. It is a less fun place to hang out if you don't like tribalism than it used to be. I wish there was a way to change the incentives for the commenters there so they'd be less tribal.