Love the net

I just remembered how an old friend once told that on some days he just hated the internet: He would read stuff and think of how anoying it was that people were smareter than him and he would get stressed with the mere thought of all the new good stuff that would get out there, that he had to read, know about reflect on and maybe even be smarter than. I get that feeling to sometimes too. There just too much junk out there – and what’s worse: there too much good and interesting stuff out there too. Just browse around Facebook and look at what people I like are doing. Or see what the best people are doing in my feed-reader. Or surf the papers I would love to read and theorize about. It is just too much – some days.

But that’s then when we need to remember Stowe Boyd: One of his many points is that living like this on the edge of the internet – in web 2.0 (old hat) – is the indication of how the future will be. right now there is a general rule of thumb that one person can have a certian number of friends, a certian size of social circles and even a high number of things/issues we can focus on without getting stressed. Boyds argument is that all this is changing and growing through how we use the web today. Or you could say: don’t mind the fellng that you can’t oversee the whole and be calm that way – just dive in to uncertainty, share everything that you do, think, feel, blurp, see and then these blurps might just connect to other blurps and become an intelligent conversation possibly even with learning potential.

So the point is: share more than you can think is needed.

I can’t fully live up to that myself, but it is an interesting ideal