thoughts from talk by Stowe Boyd at reboot 9.0

"Time is a shared space", Stowe says at reboot in Copenhagen

time is not my own - time already belongs to all of us or to the between of us. this means that basically, what I do does not belong to me, as it is necessarily and more and more something that is created by interaction, that is action that takes place between us, with more than one mind acting and developing things, so the ideas develop even though I am not present - this creates better ideas, but I have to accept that I do not own the ideas that are being developed. at the ened of the line, this destroys the right to property, whether individual or collective. no protection of rights, no protection of property, no redistribution of property. but at the end of that - how does anyone make money today? the whole market economy is arranged around property and exchange of it:- and even if we create in open source processes, in the end, if no one own's the products that come out of our work, no one can make money from them? well, not exactly, right?

there is stuff on flow that I don't agree with, like the feeling of personal control while being in flow. this is definitely not my impression; control doesn't really take me very far, except of course control over the desire to control B-)

but this is cool: network productivity trumps personal productivity - yep. but this is really in contradiction with the way that i.e. many academics are working and being asked to work today.

"everything important will find its way to you more than once, don't worry if you miss it the first time" - I don't know if he is right on this, but something tells me (that something being a kind of collective intuition?) that it is.

The main problem here, apart from "being in personal control", which at least demands a change in what we call "person", is that is maybe isn't radical enough at least for my taste. ok, this is fine, but let's go there: if time is not my own, my mind i snot my own, my body is not my own, let's skip the whole idea of individual property, which means that we have to blow up the whole idea of property whatsoever except as precisely that: flow...

But nice talk, though, a good start to a day that seems suspiciously promising (suspiciously because shit happens, but ok, let me be optimistic about it).

Comments

[Ton Zijlstra]

"everything important will find its way to you more than once, don't worry if you miss it the first time" - I don't know if he is right on this, but something tells me (that something being a kind of collective intuition?) that it is.

Hi Oleg,
I enjoyed your presentation at Reboot a lot (still hoping the video will be online soon.)

As to the above quote. I do think Stowe is right about this, at least in the context of gathering information/news from the web.
I keep track of about 300 people through some 450 rss feeds. I never read all that on a daily basis, I scan a few times a week. I filter what is important to them as my social network based on the patterns of repetition. If some theme comes up in different sections of my network in the course of a few days it is apparantly important to my network as a whole and I start paying attention.

I count on it that important stuff pops up multiple times in my network. Until now I don't feel like I'm missing much. On the contrary I find I am often much faster informed about things. Even though I am not paying attention daily.

This of course works only outside-in. When it is about stuff that I am working on, quesitons I am struggling with etc, then I go and find my info pro-actively. But to keep track of what is happening in your social network / the world in general it is a useful strategy to trust your network to present you the important things multiple times.