If you haven't been viewing my twitter profile lately, I have done a presentation on a small singapore personal development club lately about the book black box thinking and posted an online video recently that discusses that presentation in detail what black box thinking is all about, how to use it properly, and in what ways we can make this implicit thing into an explicit thing. You can find the presentation here and the video here or you can view them bellow here for your reference:
The reason for creating a next revolutionary social network that will change the world is twofold:
1. One is due to the book Black Box Thinking brought topics to the table which resemble in many ways the problems that bound within the personal/subjective and task/objective split. The objective world is doing very fine running its own engine. However, our personal life is in the Mohave desert, not having found its niche, its own "personal valley". I elaborated that difference very briefly where everybody could understand in one of my linkedin posts. Black Box thinking elaborates that problem in detail, describing the mechanisms of that problem and the issues that arises on that problem with a lot of examples within, from the aviation to the criminal justice system. It does not give a solution, but it does give a problem, that is very clear for everyone to understand, a step more forward from our previous generations where they didn't realize that this problem existed in the first place and how fundamental it was. It has a lot of concepts mental symmetry discuss (most that can be found here and a lot of my blog articles within my blog activity analyzed as well) and almost both tackle the same challenges the current society has to overcome. It is like black box thinking is the little brother of mental symmetry. I have been fond of it posting this post and this another post showing how important it is, how relevant it is, that I even had to write a review for it just now.
2. The posts of Lorin Friesen within Q1 2016 made me to write a blog, "The important message: On beginning new things over things" , on how convinced and strongly I believe that personal development in our world is left out of the spectrum. We forced to create a paradigm to ignore the personal due to the atrocities we did in the past during world war 2 era. We now treat it as a mystery due to that trauma. Trauma we should have if we treat the personal in an irrational way again, but it does not mean we should put a wall when we do it in a rational way and still treat it as "pseudoscience". One of Lorin Friesen interpretations is that we have to create the implicit to explicit. The only way to create an implicit thing to an explicit thing is to create it artificially, like how we use metaphors to describe abstract concepts, it has to be a part of our life, this artificial thing, such as an internet of things, or in some type of format that we are at least visible and aware in our active life. A great starting point is to create a social network that can build the building blocks where we grow our quality level of relationships and communication that we never imagined before. It will be based on the model of mental symmetry for now and its form at first will be like a "bike" and its later stages will be a "bullet train" once more scientists and neurologists accept and contribute that we have to create an integrative model that gives attention to the growth of our personal self.
Moving on, we have to also realize, that the method of learning through the individual, is quite different from one of the computer.
For one, the computer can definitely learn from different environments, but it always has a cheat sheet how to optimize itself on its current environment. In here, the spectrum is two fold.
1. We shouldn't only focus on improving the individual itself, but also the environment itself to be adapted or changed in such a way that the individual itself can gain the most personal growth out of himself. Because if the environment does not suit the individual to the fullest capacity, then we reached the threshold of what the individual can do. We did increase the threshold of the individual output with the inception of scientific thought, but we only created rich worlds externally, but still kept our inner worlds empty.
2. Our individual self is not programmed to know how our inner self works or to have a cheat sheet how to optimize ourselves through self learning. It is a very independent system that it has to learn the ropes by itself, which will make him more confident once he realizes itself than instead somebody giving the answer to him. So in such sense, we need a different model, a model that resembles the human mind architecture the most, to take account of the sensitivities of the individual, why he would choose something that focuses to choose decision that add value for himself and not decisions that add more value to our society. A lot of times, the problem comes from point #1: the system that we impose in our environment does not let the individual to make choices that are more social responsible.
And without further ado, I will over the next quarters (it will take some time) to prototype the design of the next social network. A social network that 1. We are more transparent, where we give more information of our troubles and mistakes so people don't generalize or fill in the gaps in a negative way due to missing info that we as individuals always try to hide publicly. 2. To make individuals be more lenient on the mistakes of others and accept them as journeys of personal growth.
I don't have a lot of free time because I have a very busy workload and a lot personal matters to attend within my relationship. However, being practically realistic, it is a thing I want to see over the next decade to come, so I may create some future connections in the future once I wrap up a prototype.