Tuesday, 12 January 2016

School is Level 1 prison
Let's do something more controversial - finally! I've had a brilliant idea today while trying to make a video about how great my new economic system is. Yep we're going to dive deeper into economy because this is important to understand. Fundamentally this answers what is the next step in human evolution. I found this answer while trying to explain why love is like hunting and how it might change in the future. It seems that if the system would stabilize… people would start be more creative and less attractive or attractable to material stuff or how another person looks. And the way the economy works, how the whole system/game works determines our next step. And once we perfect that we can move even further.

So the transition is quite clear: robots must take ALL of the repetitive works. The real question is what humans are going to do and how this transition will happen. So far I haven't heard a clear solution neither from the side of "Free Trade" where everyone trades without government, nor I've heard a clear solution from "Resource Based Economy" idea where you simply distribute resources and somehow encourage people to be creative. My solution is not only a clear transition, but a direction of how we should perfect the economy and move to something else.

There is a fundamental FACT about how economy must work: something must represent value (money) and that money must come back to the source if not used (inflation). This is the main reason why inflation exist in the first place… government is simply taking it's money back, because it assumes that it controls the whole countries value. Printing more money is the only way governments can get their money back without attacking people directly and for once I've started to see that it can be justifiable. The reason money must come back to the source is simple: money can't be idle. If money doesn't flow then economy is losing it's potential. All the money in banks or in pockets basically is dangerous to the economy for being idle, for blocking possible trades. But also money discourage "all way" trading, where you can buy anything at any time. Or at-least we don't have the capacity to do so.

Now with the technological advancements we can finally hook up every person with a smartphone and have them display a new much more flexible currency, which you can spend in more places and more freely and nobody can steal it from you (unless by extreme hacking). And because virtual money is super flexible it could be taken from you slowly while being idle. So this would encourage you to make trades or simply give your money to someone who is actively making trades, investing into something. One opening possibility to spend money would be to become more visible. I've visited a social website called "Twoo". And it's interesting how it introduces credits in order to be more visible, to share your picture on the wall, you sent 100 notifications to random people… This is what people are thirsty for - a way to invest into their ideas, promote themselves. You see this in how aggressive and valuable adds are in this stage of economy. This is basically what Youtube runs on, until Youtube Red will start to perhaps take over the model of random add placement.

My system is not much new… I am just suggesting for money to become for flexible and visible. Where people are rated for how much they are progressing, how important they are on certain topics. If on your video you get some expert's comment you would possibly want to see that comment first and know how important that person is, to understand how much you should care about that comment and if that person made a mistake or made an insulting comment… well you can down-rate that person. Also Youtube channels wouldn't count "the most popular", but "the best" because no longer you would care about the number of subscribers, but how many people actually like the content and how many of those people are actually important. I am pretty sure very important people don't waste their time watching Pewdiepie… And "important person" is considered a person that have gathered most positive attention rather than wealth… and it's really easy to love that attention/score just by making a simple mistake.

And so what about jails? What happens if someone scores below 0, if someone doesn't contribute anything to society for long enough and there is nobody out there to support who they are… well they have to be rehabilitated back to society. This is what jails supposed to do, but don't… But this is what school does. It assumes that you don't know how to provide value and gain enough money for survival so it asks you to learn arbitrary things… it's mandatory… it basically robs young people's potential, but it's ok… it's just really outdated. In my vision people that can't provide enough positive value would have to go to school - Level 1 prison. And perhaps then schools will actually care to teach them what they DON'T know and what they need to know to come back to society. It's like an orphanage because you would expect for parents to give legacy of what they have done in life if that was a creative activity.

And this shouldn't be something weird/scary… I figured out that this is where we're heading, eventually we will get rid of uncreative/repetitive jobs and somehow economy will still have to hold on without any minimum wage or other bullshit that was invented to make economy more sustainable and even more outdated. But there seems to be no other way, but to update the old system, not invent something that would provide a possibly destructive CHANGE. Transition has to be smooth and always forward. We don't need to unlearn things, but reconsider and stay curious about possibilities. You don't like apples? But what if you do? Consider that… Until then ask yourself, should you be schooled? Would you provide enough value in the new rising creative society? Let me know…

Thursday, 7 January 2016

How to make things happen?

What a great idea I have came up with… blank sheet of paper. It's so different in a hands of professional artist rather than novice. So what is so different about it? An experienced artist simply has experience with the tools. Perhaps he has his own additional tools with him and plenty of developed skills. This is no different with game programming/design as I am concerned. So if you look at any form of art you will see the same process.

What I am concerned is to figure out when the work is finished, when can you take another sheet of paper and start almost from scratch. Because my motto was: "It doesn't matter what you do, but how far you get". Let me explain it to the most extreme. Let's say you're good thief… well you get better and better at stealing things. But perhaps what we would consider "evil" is actually holding you back from the real challenges. In fact by engaging with destructive behavior you may end up in jail and lose opportunity to get better. Sure enough the jailing system or policing system… or the WHOLE system is outdated, but at-least it works here. Because in deep down we somehow know all these things and we avoid harming ourselves. I liked the quote from Mark Passio "I am not here to tell you anything new, anything that hasn't been said". This really makes me question… if we know all this stuff deep down, why am I trying to pull it back up and make you chew on it again.

Let's say I was able to read myself and others and found truth that we always held within ourselves. But there is still something that holds that truth back… that doesn't let it flow. In fact if you don't know the truth, the actions you will make will be more or less random. Sure you can learn a lot by acting random and then filtering out the not so successful actions, but we have brains to predict and make choices that would lead us through shortcuts to the real success. So back to my motto… blank sheet method doesn't destroy the idea of trying to get as far as possible, but it does destroy the idea that you can come back and improve your previous work. And by improve I don't mean just taking another sheet and redrawing. I mean taking the not so finished painting that you did and adding a few strokes. I believe it's literally impossible to answer this question because both answers are correct. You should be able to take a new sheet and improve the old one. And even my motto might still be true.

This is why I love being honest. Because I remember an old saying: "lie's legs are short". You simply can't get far without being honest with yourself, by cheating… because in the end you will neither be able to improve the old nor will you know more when taking the new sheet. I suppose you have to have some special paintings you just place in your room and look at every day in order to find if you want to improve something. And also you should try those blank sheet moments with new paintings, with new ideas… and if you really think about it… this is exactly what your life is about. Every single day is a new painting, but every single day… you are the same person living your life, painting yourself, improving yourself. Without doing both, you can't get far. Thing is… you will never know when it's going to be THAT day. But you will know who is going to make it happen.

Such a beautiful duality of life. And tell you what… it is all within the "wheel of life" I have created… I have painted long time ago and constantly added knowledge to it. This really helps me figure out how to make things happen. How you have to make little new things and in the same time dig a collective hole, a bigger picture. Because every time you look back at the same picture you paint every day… you can see EVERY day when you learned something new and you just wanted it to be in that picture. That picture must have ALL the knowledge, all the struggle.

This is the ultimate rule of life… and deep down you probably knew about it. If you think about this in every action you take, how will that help? Well you should be able to forget any struggle, it should ease your way forward, because with knowledge there is no fear. When you know what movie to watch or which game to play or simply what to do and how to do it… you enjoy it. Simple as that. Knowledge DOES set you free from any bondage. Knowledge is perfection and is the only god in this universe. Oh I wish I knew many more things… I wish I had people that would help me learn and would learn from me. And I wish to someday updated the outdated system that gathered dust after all this time… untouched, despite of how many blank sheets have been thrown away. My idea with touch the system we live under… I can promise you that.
What will I do with Social Media?

Welcome to my new place were I'll be posting blogs. This is a copy linked to my "OneNote" account which I can't simply disclose to anyone for personal reasons. I know how fast controversial information is being shared. No wonder we hear things like: "the whole school knows about this". It also may seems that information "booms" may only happen within a closed environment. Closed environment would be the actual school. Beyond that point people wouldn't really care about the information. Similarly like most of the people don't care what happens in other countries… heck they don't care what happens across the street.

You see I can't make an "information boom" like I once did at school because there is this enclosed part of society there and if I did anything that they would care about, obviously I would get attention. Now I may be working here and there, but I am not in any environment at all where I would make comments about something they cared… or at-least I am too young for that environment. So there are two criteria in order for "information boom" to happen: 1. You must be involved with the community. 2. Community must be involved with you. Or in other words… you have to have a community relationship or be writing about people that are within the higher involvement within the community. This is why most popular media are either made by "stars" or are parodies/copies/reviews of the original. Youtube might be hard to understand if you apply, but it's all because of it's young environment. And even then you see that it's hard to get up in the rankings without a few year old commitment. And also each youtuber has it's own community… So you would assume that by making any content discussing that youtuber… you would get his followers attention.

So now let's cut to the chase and figure out the question I have given. Let's start by asking what do I need Social Media for and what is my choice of achieving that goal. For a long time I've been a loner… no, not lonely, but a person that would keep it to himself. Figure out things, discover, learn… it was all done in a closed environment most of the time. Now I have to say that's a pretty inefficient way to go because this way I also reduced the amount of important experiences I had with friends. In some cases I would develop a certain fear of being social with other people, which would perpetually grow stronger from being inactive. And then at some point I would understand how important feedback is and simply start making videos on what I cared about. And what I care about is getting to the truth, figuring out what is the most efficient way to do things, what is the best way to treat language, how to make great art… how to live your life to the fullest. All of this would require me to think very deeply on what I have already experienced in life, would also require me to watch a lot of personal development and "waking up" videos to understand the things that normal person would ignore. Because information is out there… we're actively ignoring it. Back in the days of books… we would dream of something so convenient as internet. And even then I understand… I want even more convenience, I don't want to waste too much time searching for knowledge, I want people to organize it and put it into videos that would be easy to understand. But if you’re hooked up to something you will take any form of information… as some people may be reading this instead of watching the video I might make saying same things.

There is an obvious need to be connected with humanity and to help it improve and grow. I have devoted thus far many years of my life to seek for knowledge. And I've obviously started to like it, adapt to such lifestyle and think that only I can do things that I do. And you can't disprove that because I have developed MY OWN way to analyze things. I have created what I call "Wheel of Life" that only I understand the best and through what I ask ALL the questions. I assume that the answer must be there. Now I am not sure if a chance to make something like I did is low or high, but it really works. Perhaps it's just the way we create and interpret art where we can put almost infinite amount of information into one painting/symbol. This is why art is so powerful…

So I will do my best to present people as much knowledge that I've been able to discover. The only thing I want in return is to grab someone's attention, get then to improve their lives, move on from making the same mistakes. This topic is deep: how to make myself happy just by helping others? I figured out that the most selfish thing I can do is to NOT put what I have collected out there for those who are curious enough. It MUST be out there, in the most reachable way that I can attain, in the most organized manner. This is kind of most people tend to do with social media, post their everyday lives. And this is simply what my life consist of, what kind of achievement I am trying to make. I would say that the biggest difference is that I am very ambitious of how I want to organize all this. I will probably not be satisfied by what tools social media will give me and might have to make my own ways to express my ideas. One good way that I have is through making games. And my programming skills will surely come in handy when dealing with my ambition to present you my "collection" in the most approachable way.

Now being most specifically: I don't know if I can be specific… Surely Facebook will remain a place where I will post the news, but it will only contain the links to the deeper realm of my presentation. I don't believe I'll be using Twitter… One site in question is: Instagram. I kind of like being there, but it always stricken me that Facebook has almost the same features… what's the difference here? There is something clean about that place. One cool thing is like the comment section where you can have some weird interactions. Another thing is that people are likely to deliberately open your profile when they feel like it. Both of these points however are very similar between both sites. Hmm so far the only thing I can tell good about Instagram is that you can actually tell how many people are interested in it… So you can see it's really hard to tell what to do. People are simply playing around on different platforms and focus on things that stick out as successful. Doing all this from a thinking standpoint is much more difficult. But in the end when you know you can never go back to the unknown. If I reach success by knowing, I will never lose it. And this is what I am aiming for here. Any decision I will make will most likely be a well thought out choice.

I am probably a horrible writer even though I've already spent so much of my time… even something like writing requires a lot of time to figure out how to do it right. I am saying this because I was attempting to fix the blogpost by rereading it and rewriting the key points, but same thing cut me down from such process: I should do it better next time. Similarly to game programming. I actually have to start my work with a blank sheet. This MUST happen almost every time. Even if the paper is not even blank… you imagine that it is. And maybe this should be a story for another time ;)