This thesis is basically correct. I've been watching as this happens to me over the past 10 years.
As I passed through stages in my understanding in the world (most building on the ones before), I have fewer and fewer people who can follow where I'm at.
ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/01/can…
As I passed through stages in my understanding in the world (most building on the ones before), I have fewer and fewer people who can follow where I'm at.
ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/01/can…
(Despite the fact that I have actively and heavily invested in convergence technology for pushing back against this.)
I feel, increasingly, like I don't have peers.
Not because I'm so much better than everyone, but because no one is doing for the same reasons I am.
Not because I'm so much better than everyone, but because no one is doing for the same reasons I am.
This is related to why I don't know how to have people help me.
Certainly, I can learn from other people, but this has to be driven on my end, so I have context on what is relevant to me and why. I have to do the steering.
I don't know how people can help me from the outside.
Certainly, I can learn from other people, but this has to be driven on my end, so I have context on what is relevant to me and why. I have to do the steering.
I don't know how people can help me from the outside.
And this is a good part of why finding romantic partnership is hard.
(Though I've been refactoring / goal factoring that lately, so maybe I'll find a version that actually gets me what I care about, while also being more tractable.)
(Though I've been refactoring / goal factoring that lately, so maybe I'll find a version that actually gets me what I care about, while also being more tractable.)
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