I haven’t said this yet, but @RoamHacker, #roam42 [[SmartBlocks]] are the first step in a lot of what we have been talking about for months - a true [[central source of truth]] data repository in @RoamResearch which to link all our PKM arenas.
When the API comes out, I expect great things from you 😁. I know you do this for the love of it. Respect. But you are also changing peoples lives in subtle ways. I have spent the last decade teaching people to “learn how to learn”.
To encourage the unknowing, the unwilling, and the passionate to find themselves and discover joy in thinking. We all have our [[calling]]. You have allowed me to better engage in my own work - engage in my own thinking - and frankly being a better human.
It comes down to our own selves in what we do and what brings us joy. But tools that allow us to get our work done more efficiently, with greater joy, and with a bigger [[social impact]] is my definition of [[spiritual work]].
To be clear, this thread is praise of [[human work]], not products. It is praise for [[human ingenuity]], not software.
Giving thanks belatedly - the human community many of us have built AROUND a little piece of software is part of this too. We all put in the work to help others build - to help ourselves learn - this is what community IS. But it does not come without labor.
And it is clear for many in the #roamcult, the #roamans, and others, it is a labor of love. 🙏
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@AGWilsonn - Ok. Again, for full context and an understanding of priors. I teach at a [[community college]], so students more likely: marginalized, unprepared, unconnected, and juggling the major stresses in their community.
I teach in one city in the California Bay Area, and another in the Central Valley of California. Both are majority “minority” student body. One a gentrified city, the other gentrified farm community (like any place in the US isn’t gentrified?!)
The most important [[pedagogical goals]] I have is helping students become “[[true student]],” as opposed to “fee paying individuals.” With that said, the goals wouldn’t be much different elsewhere.
@cortexfutura I saw you retweeted some colorized photos. And I agree with the OPs comments. It is a shift in mindset that I use in my history classes all the time. In particular, for American history, the “Civil War” was only 150 yrs ago. that is only really 3-4 generations
Or 2-3 lifetimes. And in fact. The last “Confederate" widow (the opposition to the government) died in the 90s or 2000s (Granted she married a very old man when she was very young). But the colorized pictures bring so much more to the mind.
Its actually very creepy for me, since I have a deep historical memory.
Let’s be real #roamcult, we’re not just here for the product (@roamresearch), but here for the party too! Learned so much from all of you. Regardless of context, a [[community of inquiry]] ([[pragmatists]], [[C.S.Peirce]] and [[John Dewey]]) will always find truths together.
So rewarding.
The dialogue, debate, conflict, studies, and explorations will always lead to progress.
You know what I think most people don’t realize, is that historians job is to argue. We tell stories, true,. But the stories themselves are implicit arguments against or in support of the prior generation.
We argue about what matters in the present, through the lens of the past. We argue about what past perspectives, stories, and avenues of thought are most relevant to get the most out of the present and future.
History will never be written because it is not the past. It is our view of the past. Our perspective. It will always change. It will aldehyde shift with the current generation. Aggregation of facts, yes, will build. But interpretations will never solidify.
Why! Why! Do I receive emails daily from my students which state: “Sorry for bothering you…” or “I apologize for the email...". Are you kidding me? What kind of student culture are we as a system and as educators developing where students feel like a question is an imposition.
Don't get me wrong, I recognize that many of our inboxes r overflowing with messages. Though that is MORE likely the result of your bad email management than overwhelm by student questions (yes I know, admin emails too). If we are not there to guide the prepared and uprepared…
students alike, what the hell are you doing in this profession. A tangential analogy perhaps. I was a chef for a decade. A far too many chefs I met were upset when customers wished to modify a dish to remove this or add this, or make some kind of exception. While recipe integrity