This document suggests focusing less on proving ourselves through data and more on listening to our inner thoughts and curiosities. It argues that current systems have us spending too much time reporting and documenting things to impress others, rather than being authentic. A better approach may be using technology to organize our self-reflections and curiosities in a way that facilitates connections with others who share similar interests, without worrying about efficiency or evidence. This could help us be truer to ourselves and wake up from constantly keeping busy by rearranging prejudices rather than enacting real change.

2. quality of data (or whatever) matters little
if our focus is on
the wrong kind of data (or whatever)

4. this is our

8. perhaps 7 billion alive people is the energy we’ve been seeking with all our efficient data sets.
perhaps the imagined/dreaded chaos of managing 7 billion alive people becomes irrelevant once we trust the roadmap
already in each person.
perhaps we let go and let that dance dance.

11. what if we focused on self-talk as data. where tech
takes our curiosities in
organizes them
connects them/us
leaves a trail/searchable-residue.
so that i’m not spending my time jumping
through hoops and fitting into boxes for you
(not a person’s best side)
and you aren’t spending your time trying to
find me and then wondering/deciding if you
should trust/like me
(most people are other people, especially
when trying to impress).

12. /
tech takes our
curiosities in
organizes them
connects them/us
& leaves
a trail/searchable-residue.

13. ie: site as my brain,
commonplace
book, etc
ie: daily self talk used
as data to help find
your people/tribe redefineschool.com/appchip-update-ideas/

14. to follow (listen to) our whimsy.
perhaps what matters most is already within each heart.
we just need to listen to that. trust that. trust us.

16. a reflection
to not let noise mandate words. to not let mandates
mandate noise. but rather – to listen to the (assumed)
silence. perhaps to be the (assumed) silence.

17. a zoom out
a zoom out globally allows one to notice the many
hours of the day we currently spend …
reporting/proving/documenting things/ourselves.
and then too, most often after the ed is added..
ie: reported/proved/documented… the less shiny it
becomes. the less it’s paid attention to.
too often this only gets us to be less us.
- Oscar Wilde

18. perhaps we find the bravery to listen, question, ..change our minds every day. to create a
system that facilitates authenticity & attachment rather than efficiency & evidence.

19. Rearranging our prejudices
Change is the point. It's what we seek to do to
the world around us.
Change, actual change, is hard work. And
changing our own minds is the most difficult
place to start.
It's also the only place to start.
It's hard to find the leverage to change the way
you see the world, hard to pull on your
thoughtstraps. But it's urgent.
"A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices..." William James
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/09/rearran
ging-our-prejudices.html

20. rearranging the deck chairs
change is the need.
actual change.
we can’t keep rearranging the chairs.
we’re past urgent.
war, refugees, suicides, .. what more do we
need screaming at us.. to stop trying to fix ie:
business, schools, .. and start living like we are
already free. all of us. (revolution in reverse)
a nother way.
not the same song second verse.
we need to wake up.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde

22. perhaps as long as we keep talking/listening to ourselves..
that awakeness (aka: eudaimonian surplus) will leave any/all the trail we’ll ever need.
we now have the chance to make many tech’s irrelevant (ie: policies, work, school,
war, ..). perhaps as we use tech to hasten a detox from bureaucratic
obsessions/preoccupations, this twitch we have to prove/document
ourselves/everything will become irrelevant as well.
redefineschool.com/detox-as-detox/

23. leaving all of us with the luxury to live our lives more true to ourselves.
less about supposed to’s.

24. I think we’re wasting the chance of a lifetime…
We fail to notice because we’re busy keeping
busy. We fail to dream because dreaming
implies that we have to take a risk to realize
our dream. We fail to connect because we
might get rejected. And we fail to do because
we haven’t noticed, we haven’t dreamed, and
we haven’t connected.
- Seth Godin, it’s your turn

26. redefineschool.com/a-nother-way-book/
perhaps it’s time to model