Networking--the mathbrain version?
Within the past couple of days two folks have been talking about networking from the perspective of search engines and ranking (I still don't know what that means, and don't really care) --starshipcat shares a year of research here and david_de_beer talks about it here--causing a peculiar echo effect as he's referring back to an old post of mine, when I asked about Linked-In, which seemed to be the "new thing" at the time. (Now the "thing" seems to be Twitter again, still don't see why. Maybe it's for those with interesting daily lives to report, which mine is not! I would totally do Twitter if I was traveling, I think.)
Anyway, this stuff just eludes me, and I figured out why last night: it feels like math. All my life I felt stupid (and in my day, teachers could helpfully tell you how stupid you were, right in front of the class, just in case you'd missed the clue of Fs on every test) because math was tedious, boring, and maddening when I couldn't tell if I'd switched numbers or not. I know I'm not stupid, it's just that when math ability was being handed out, I was in the line to get an extra helping of anxiety, because I was worried I didn't have enough. I am adequate at a scattering of other things, but math? No hope. And this stuff feels like math because I just can't comprehend it.
But I sense it is important, because look at the effect of the networking put together to raise the money to save someone's house. Two families, actually, that I know of, within the past couple of weeks. In this case, a couple of women basically worked night and day to engineer it all, but what a powerful effect! I like this kind of connection between people, I think it powerful and fascinating. I just can't get my brain around how to build it with computers, though I understand the social dynamic when you take tech away.
Anyhow, I'm linking these because maybe those who got that helping of mathbrains will be able to suss it out, and figure how to make it work to help people.
Anyway, this stuff just eludes me, and I figured out why last night: it feels like math. All my life I felt stupid (and in my day, teachers could helpfully tell you how stupid you were, right in front of the class, just in case you'd missed the clue of Fs on every test) because math was tedious, boring, and maddening when I couldn't tell if I'd switched numbers or not. I know I'm not stupid, it's just that when math ability was being handed out, I was in the line to get an extra helping of anxiety, because I was worried I didn't have enough. I am adequate at a scattering of other things, but math? No hope. And this stuff feels like math because I just can't comprehend it.
But I sense it is important, because look at the effect of the networking put together to raise the money to save someone's house. Two families, actually, that I know of, within the past couple of weeks. In this case, a couple of women basically worked night and day to engineer it all, but what a powerful effect! I like this kind of connection between people, I think it powerful and fascinating. I just can't get my brain around how to build it with computers, though I understand the social dynamic when you take tech away.
Anyhow, I'm linking these because maybe those who got that helping of mathbrains will be able to suss it out, and figure how to make it work to help people.