meaning(3/1)
It is the effort that counts
Contrary to the cliché, it isn’t really the thought that counts, but the effort–which is to say, the inconvenience. When you render the process more convenient, you drain it of its meaning.
Humans find meaning in community
TODO: Refer to hosting friends over the weekend. Talk about how covid affects meaning. I wonder what I might learn from Linus' thinking about communities? Much of what he explores fits with my present quandry in finding a place, not only to write, but also to engage others. It’s not that I want to build a community per se, but I do want to interact with others via some means other than Twitter and Facebook.…
Tools for building community
Linus Lee laments that tools aren’t built to assist community leaders in the formation of lively communities and suggests that we have a long ways to go. Here are a few tools I’ve found that might help. 💬 I think there’s a wide-open space for us to build much, much better tools for community leaders. A community leader’s most important job is to be the model community member and contributor – all other concerns should fade into the background of their work, and we are far from it today.…
Loss of social meaning drives overwork
There is an unprecedented loss of meaning in our culture. Family had been a source of meaning, but now people rarely live near their families, which are often both physically and emotionally distant. Religious identification has also suffered a decline, with religion identified with institutions and devoid of meaning. Even living in close proximity to other people no longer supplies a sense of meaning, as the life of one’s neighbor is as distant as the walls are close.…