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Jigme Datse\\
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PO Box 270\\
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Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0\\
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Canada}
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Canada\\
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jigme.datse@datsemultimedia.com}
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\appendix
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\chapter{Appendix}
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Here, maybe having an appendix, with each of the other things as
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sections? Let's see.
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\section{Bibliography}
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\section{Todo Items}
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This is here (the appendix), so it will show up in the table of contents.
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Without some text here, it sadly is currently putting a totally empty
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page, then the list of todo items. Not ideal. That is a\todo{Todo
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item}, I would say.
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\end{document}
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So, a few days ago (I think it was Thursday, but may have been Wednesday)
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we received our copy of
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{\it Broken Pencil}\cite{brokenp2023-f}\footnote{This needs to be
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{\it Broken Pencil} \cite{brokenp2023-f}\todo{This needs to be
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fixed}, that lead us to want to do some zine type thing, which with
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the reference to {\it America's Dreaming Zine \#11}\cite{bp-amerdream},
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this was what we kind of came up with.
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the reference to {\it America's Dreaming Zine \#11}
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\cite{bp-amerdream}, this was what we kind of came up with.
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It's a bit of a zine which we want to just do a variety of stuff with,
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and not really worry about the usual things that we've been trying to
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about the name of our system ``Datse Collective'' and how that name
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came about.
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\subsection{Are you going to sell these?}
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This talks about my thoughts about selling these, and capitalism, and
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individualism, and a whole lot of different things. As of now, I believe
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it is the longest piece, and I would say that it probably needs to have
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some of this broken into or expanded on a bit in a different piece.\todo{Capitalism, Pricing, Individualism/Collectivism}
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\subsection{Journaling}
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I go a fair amount into our own journaling, though more on a technical
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end than on our experience of it.
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\section{Plans}
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Here's some of the plans we have for this:
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\begin{itemize}[nosep]
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\begin{itemize}
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\item{What is a Syszine}
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\item{Who are we?}
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\item{Journalling?}
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\item{What are Plural Systems?}
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\item{Where did the Name Datse Collective Come From?}
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\item{Where did the Name ``Datse Collective'' Come From?}
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\item{Are you going to sell these?}
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\item{Why not Capitalism?}
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\item{Dude why is it so expensive?}
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\item{It's my right as an individual.}
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\end{itemize}
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That is a decent place to start. The list is a little weird right now.
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\chapter{Journaling}
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Yes, yes yes... I know that I have a item I was going to add to this
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and a whole thing about, ``Who are we?'' which I am avoiding writing.
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I get the desire to write the previous thing about sales first, because
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that was very much the topic of what was on our mind, when we were
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sitting down to get something down here.
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This about journaling wasn't really on our mind, it's just we
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don't feel inspired to write directly about who we are right now.
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Maybe we'll totally skip that. Because you know, it's not something
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that we like to really consider directly because it always feels not
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right.
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So, let's talk about journaling, rather than talking about ourselves
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directly.
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I don't really want to fully dive into this, I have started a project
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already that kind of has sat sadly for... Months, maybe over a year,
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maybe even over 2 years.
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I want to sort of cover a few different things with journaling:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item{Why Journal?}
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\begin{itemize}[nosep]
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\item{Self Communication}
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\item{Getting Things Done}
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\item{Understanding Self}
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\item{Understanding World}
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\end{itemize}
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\item{How we journal}
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\begin{itemize}[nosep]
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\item{Bullet Journal}
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\item{Just Writing}
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\item{Script Writing}
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\end{itemize}
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\end{itemize}
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Dang, that was a longer list than I thought it would be, so let's get
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started
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\section{Why Journal?}
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This is something that honestly I'm sure there are at least as many
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reasons as there are people journaling. Which? Um, that sort of seems
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a bit odd, as what I'm talking about here is probably some fairly generic
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reasons.
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These are reasons that I have for why I try to journal (and sometimes
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actually succeed at it). They aren't really the only reason's, but we
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have to start somewhere, and we have to not overwhelm ourselves and our
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gentle (or not so gentle) readers.
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\subsection{Self Communication}
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This well... Self? Maybe that's hitting us a bit weird... Selves?
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System? Well maybe System is better then.\todo{Make this better with
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more direct use of something along the lines of system.}
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This will probably (hopefully) get edited, but I don't want to go back
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and do that right now... Remember, ``This will be terrible,'' from the
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introduction. It's not our goal with the thing, it is more an invitation
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for ourselves to be accepting as we are capable of, of it not being
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perfect. Especially for it not to be perfect as we are working on it.
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So... {\it System Communication}, then. We use journaling for system
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communication, to have ourselves better able to understand what's going
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on with the system as a whole.\todo{Something about Simply Plural and
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Discipline App}
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This ends up coming out in a few different ways, and more details about
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how this comes out in the different ways I've listed as ``How we
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journal.''
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The thing we're noticing is that actually a lot of the why and the
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how end up interacting. We were thinking that the ``Bullet Journal,''
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type format didn't have to do with much more than getting things done.
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And with looking at this, even the just getting things done of the
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``Bullet Journal'' format (Can we call it BJ? Let's at least for
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now.)\todo{Is BJ OK?} at least for us, involves system communication.
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Why do I say that? Well, I could write something down as Jigme that
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I want to get done, and then Moddy shows up, but wasn't aware of that
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and they can look at that, and go ahead and get it done.
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The other aspects felt a lot more like they were directly related to
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the ``internal communication'' aspect, as that is pretty much the direct
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purpose of them.
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So, what about getting things done?
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\subsection{Getting Things Done}
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This feels all of a sudden what I said about how the ``just writing,''
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and ``script writing,'' are basically about just internal communication
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that they have to be also connected with the getting things done aspect
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as well.
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The way they help with that may actually come up further down the way,
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but basically because they are about the communication, they can help
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with understanding as to what needs to be done.
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So, wait, we were talking about why? I guess that means I really
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need to talk about the executive function issues.\todo{yep this is a
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chapter too.}
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It easily can take 3 days to do a single load of laundry with just
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the general inability to remember that is what is going on (it's not
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right in front of us, and sometimes the person fronting, is not the
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person who put the laundry in), and often when remembering, promptly
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getting interrupted by things outside of our system (people, phone,
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computer, dog, et cetera).
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Properly noting this stuff can be a huge help in cutting that time to
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more like reasonable levels.
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Does it happen? Rarely, but hey a system can dream can't they?
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What about the other things that I've got in that lovely list up
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there $\uparrow$ (and for me over there $\rightarrow$ (yes I just
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spent several minutes getting the arrows to show up acceptably)),
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maybe let's look at them?
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\subsection{Understanding Self}
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OK, before I go too far with this, I feel that in our case, we're needing
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to split this into the self and the system, so let's do that.
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Well, maybe a bit about this before going to that. It might seem obvious
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now that this makes sense, but when I wrote the list above, it really
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did not. I didn't really see that this was different, but in writing,
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found that it really is.
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It's really very difficult to express what's going on in a way that
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actually fully expresses this. As I type a single word, there's like
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five different sentences going on that may or may not shift what's
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happening with the greater thought pattern.
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Every so often enough of what's happening has a, ``click'' type moment
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where something comes up that needs to be noted. Sometimes that ends
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up working out, other times it doesn't.
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It can be easier to get some of these thoughts better to come out
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when working with a physical medium like a pen and paper (how I like
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to have my journals when I'm managing that), than it is when trying
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to express stuff on the computer.
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So, that's what happened to bring this to realising that this is actually
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important to pull into a more clear that the individual self, and the
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system are connected, but not the same.
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\subsubsection{Understanding the Individual}
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This would be something which figuring out how certain patterns with
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certain members of the system are there.
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This seems like it may have been a significant breakdown in counselling
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when we've gone through it, as the counsellor (and ourselves) lacked the
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understanding that talking to Jigme about something that happened when
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Little One was fronting, can be next to useless.
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Until Jigme understands Little One, it is like me trying to explain
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why you went into do the thing you did. And, if you really want to
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understand, no matter how much Jigme understands about what Little
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One did, they can't explain as well as Little One can themselves.
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So, getting what Little One, or Jigme, or Samantha to understand what
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they are going through, and why they are doing the things they are
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doing, is very much a step in getting stuff so that the system
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as a whole better understands what's going on.
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Which is very much a place to transition to more specifically speaking
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about understanding the system.
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\subsubsection{Understanding the System}
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We're taking a break right now, will get back to you shortly, need to
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step away a bit.
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Ah, we're back... That helped. Now, I got into some of what I'm talking
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about how figuring out how an individual member of the system helps with
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understanding the system as a whole, but that sort of is not the whole
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thing about understanding the system.
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Like it is a lot different to understand how every individual in a
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classroom is behaving, than it is to understand how the classroom as
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a whole is working. It's a bit of a difference between considering
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things from a psychological versus a group psychology or sociology
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view.
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I'm not sure I can wholely say more about it than that without trying
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to do it, and ending up going through a long rambling discussion that
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quite possibly doesn't even get any further along than I already have.
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Let's move to the next thing about understanding the world.
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\subsubsection{Understanding the World}
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This is more a matter (at least for me), about understanding how I'm
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fitting in the world, but it can be more general in just understanding
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the dynamics of the world.
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In the ``Are you going to sell this?'' chapter, I talked a bit about how
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that works out, around the idea of collectivism versus individualism,
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and about capitalism. I didn't go into detail about how I got there,
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or really in any level of detail about the topics, but just enough
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to maybe start to think about those topics yourself (if you have
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not already been).
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So, it does end up being a somewhat useful thing in doing that, and
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any of these tools which I'm about to go into can be part of that.
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\section{How We Journal}
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This will have to wait until some other time...
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I guess it's a fairly simple thing, but I was just done whenever I
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paused there. So, there's basically three different ways that I do my
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journaling. Doing the Bullet Journal (BulJo? I think that might be a
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form used to refer to it, but ah not really sure?)\todo{ah Bujo, that's
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actually official}, then just writing portions out, and writing
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scripts.
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This certainly won't go into the full details of any of these methods,
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just give a bit about how I do them, and how they kind of address the
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why above.
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\subsection{Bullet Journal\textsuperscript{\tiny®}
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(Bujo\textsuperscript{\tiny®})}
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Bujo\textsuperscript{\tiny®}, was created by Ryder Carroll, to help deal
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with his ADHD, (or maybe to deal with his egotism, and not in a good
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way), technically it's not an open system, but also technically there's
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a lot of information publicly available officially. It's not clear
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really what the status of the trademark, and his enforcing of it is, if
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he is enforcing it, and finds I dared to mention his product and mention
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that I use it, well I guess this section will change ... It's why I
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decided to create my series on journaling (that never got very far).
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So, he uses a system that works for him. He's making money off that
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system, and as he's trademarked it, no one can use the name in anything
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which would be considered to be a commercial product.
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I've run into this attitude with other systems meant to help people.
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Someone ends up making money from it, and also preventing the spread
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of it in a ``legal'' way, as they somehow consider that it's so important
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that it be protected.
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I've had very strange issues with the use of
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WordPress\textsuperscript{\tiny®}, because even though what I was doing
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was saying, ``we are using this product,'' you can't actually say that
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(depends on who it is to some extent), if what you are doing is
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considered commercial.\todo{What is commercial?}
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Anyway, the system (which is trademarked not patented, it can't really
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be), is a decent system, but it's not really open.
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And, apparently he doesn't respect the IP of other people...
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It really feels like a huge faff that he's making a decent amount of
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money from, just get yourself a blank notebook, do what you can, and
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check out even his videos, or other instruction.
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It's a great system for getting stuff done. But really it comes down
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to, ``keep it simple,'' ``make it your own.''
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Yes, he's got some specifics. But those specifics are basically, a
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20 minute video worth, or a single double sided A4/Letter paper to
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explain enough to take it into something that you can take further.
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So, let's move to something that I'm more comfortable talking as a
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way I'm doing stuff (because I don't have any term associated with
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it that I am aware is considered proprietary).
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\subsection{Just Writing}
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This isn't really anything particular, though probably sort of is.
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There is a concept called ``free writing''\todo{Get Wikipedia Reference
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here.} where a person writes continuously for 15 minutes, or some other
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period of time, with the pen never stopping.
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While I've tried to do that, I've never found that it was anything
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other than just a huge stressful ball of anxiety, because I kept,
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``screwing up'' how I was doing this.
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For me, this is to just write and feel free to stop and thing or
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whatever whenever you want.
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You may sit down with something on your mind. You may be writing
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about your day (where I kind of started with this), or you may write
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about some topic, or whatever.
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The point for this for me, is it really doesn't have rules, except
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for what you set out when you do it that particular time. And
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really those rules are mostly, ``why am I sitting down to do this?''
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I have found that this isn't that common for me any more, but I
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feel it's actually a good place to start. Pick up a small notebook,
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and just have it so you can fill it up with whatever you want.
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You can do this as a daily practice, do it multiple times a day,
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do it just whenever you think about it.
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So, what about the other Script Writing thing?
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\subsection{Script Writing}
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This is a new thing that I've started to do. I started first with
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doing this in a sketchbook, and sometimes do stuff similar to what
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I did still.
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Essentially this is something where we create document of an internal
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dialogue, or maybe multiple parts talking, and trying to keep track of
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who is saying what in that dialogue.
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I have started to use the Stage document class, in \LaTeX, to write
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some of these scripts.
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The purpose and format are a bit related. For me, this is one
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of the system mapping tools that I use. The specific tool that I
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use isn't as important as finding something that works. The writing
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in a sketchbook, or notebook, or whatever does work, and there is
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nothing wrong with doing that, but I find that it also is a way that I
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end up with something that ends up being a bit of a scribble, that I
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don't really know what is said.
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Which... Leads me to another how that I hadn't thought about...
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Just scribbling.
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\subsection{Just Scribbling}
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This probably isn't quite the thing here. I guess this is a bit about
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why I really like to do some of this in a physical, open format journal.
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I haven't found a way on the computer that I can quickly switch between
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writing a text thing that ends up being decently formatted, to being able
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to throw a sketch, or formula in (well maybe a formula as I can do
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something like):
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\begin{figure}[htb]
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$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} {n\over{n^2}}$$
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\caption{I really have no idea what this ends up being.}
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\end{figure}\todo{Find out
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what this ends up summing to.}
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(yes I looked up how to do that), in \LaTeX.
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But I can easily switch when I'm using a pen/pencil on paper, to
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whatever format I want, and it doesn't require any kind of mode
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switching or loading anything up, it just happens.
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So I could just throw something down that is very much just a
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scribble, a ``ball of anxiety,'' and just sort of do that, or
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do a sketch of an idea I'm trying to explain, or whatever.
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\section{Conclusion (sort of)}
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Well, that's been a heck of a lot, that I really did not expect
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so I want to say that this actually was a little weird to write
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up as a lot of the breaks were because things were bringing stuff
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up, so yeah, take breaks, and enjoy your stuff.
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I don't think this vaguely covers what I'd like to, but it
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certainly is a thing, that I can work with.
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I'd really love to write more about this whole topic, and probably
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will, but right now, this is done. If you want to journal, just do
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it. Don't spend your time trying to find the right way to do it,
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don't spend your time finding the right journal to do it in. Just
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do it.
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If you find what you are doing, then change it. Or you might decide
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just to stop, or set it aside and not worry about it.
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Sure you'll get ideas from various sources. They are great, but
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don't let them start to get in the way of just doing the thing.
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And yes, that's a lot easier said than done for a lot of people,
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including ourselves in the Datse Collective.
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chapters := Introduction.tex Syszine.tex Sales.tex Journaling.tex
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clean:
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rm *.aux *.dvi *.fdb_latexmk *.fls *.log *.ps *.synctex.gz *.toc *.lot *.lof
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Volume1.pdf: Volume1.dvi
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dvipdf.sh Volume1
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Volume1.dvi: Volume1.tex 000-header-Volume1.tex Introduction.tex mybiblio.bib 099-footer-Volume1.tex Volume1.bbl Syszine.tex
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Volume1.dvi: Volume1.tex 000-header-Volume1.tex mybiblio.bib 099-footer-Volume1.tex Volume1.bbl $(chapters)
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latex Volume1.tex
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latex Volume1.tex
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\chapter{Are you going to sell this?}
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This was {\it not} where I thought I was going to go next. I wasn't
|
||||
really sure where I was going to go, but I had no idea that this was
|
||||
going to be even here until I was looking at some zines on Etsy, and
|
||||
thinking back to something that was asked about the journals that
|
||||
I was making yesterday.
|
||||
|
||||
The friend who came over, asked if I was going to sell them, and to
|
||||
be honest, I have thought about doing so, but really I don't feel that
|
||||
is something that I really is something that I really am really able to
|
||||
do.
|
||||
|
||||
There's several factors here. The journals are basically my own way of
|
||||
trying to create something that will help make it easier for me to be
|
||||
able to do what they are intended for (journaling).\todo{Journaling}
|
||||
|
||||
At the time I was creating them, I was tipping in pages to a purchased
|
||||
notebook, and that was every week. It was a significant amount of
|
||||
work every week just to prepare things for the week, and honestly, I
|
||||
was feeling that was actually {\it easier} than what it was replacing.
|
||||
|
||||
I know the current version isn't handling that idea as well as I had
|
||||
hoped that it would. I fully hoped to have it so that I would have
|
||||
something, which could end up solving the whole situation with it.
|
||||
|
||||
It doesn't. What it does is gives me a basic replacement of the
|
||||
purchased notebook, in a smaller (fewer pages and I guess slightly
|
||||
smaller pages) format.
|
||||
|
||||
It's in a lot of ways still an improvement, as it is closer to what I
|
||||
want, and I can just do some printing and assembling, with out having
|
||||
to search for something that works, and I can customise them as I work
|
||||
along with new versions.
|
||||
|
||||
What would they give to other people? Well, as something I have put
|
||||
together, they would mostly be something that they would be buying
|
||||
because it's a way to show support for me.
|
||||
|
||||
What I would rather do for people who might get these, is to have
|
||||
them be supporting me to support me, and I could use this as
|
||||
one of the things I might send them on a somewhat regular basis.
|
||||
|
||||
Now, this is a little different. There's something here that I feel is
|
||||
of value in itself. The arguments I've stated above don't fully make
|
||||
the, ``I probably won't sell this,'' answer as easy to understand.
|
||||
|
||||
There's a lot of other different things about why I can say that I
|
||||
probably won't sell this. I'll start with some of the easier answers.
|
||||
|
||||
I'm likely to have trouble assembling them into something that I will
|
||||
have enough of to really be able to justify selling them. I just don't
|
||||
have the physical ability to regularly be doing the 2 hours that it
|
||||
takes to assemble maybe 5-10 in a good efficiency time, and I really
|
||||
also don't have the executive function to manage to sit down and do
|
||||
that when I do the work when I do have the physical ability to do it.
|
||||
|
||||
Which also brings up yet another factor, which would be that I really
|
||||
would need to have these (or the journals) be something like \$30.00
|
||||
for a 40 page journal, if I was going to consider what I would need
|
||||
to charge in order to ``live'' off of the sales.
|
||||
|
||||
Yes, it's a hand made item. Yes, that might get some people to feel
|
||||
that it's really worth it. But a \$30.00 monthly journal is not
|
||||
something I could justify spending myself even if it was perfect, and
|
||||
I really had access to that kind of money.
|
||||
|
||||
This would probably be more like \$45.00 for a print version, if I were
|
||||
to do so with the intention of paying for my time.
|
||||
|
||||
That is probably where the understanding ends up starting to diverging
|
||||
from the easy to understand reasons, and more into some form of
|
||||
cultural differences.
|
||||
|
||||
I live in a deeply individualistic society in Canada, where there are
|
||||
some people try individually to create a more collectivist experience.
|
||||
|
||||
This is not as strong as it is in U.S.A. or I think U.K.. But as someone
|
||||
who would really like to have a more collectivist world, it is difficult
|
||||
to have people who aren't already there understand that is really even a
|
||||
thing.
|
||||
|
||||
I have spent time in Finland where there's not a speck of garbage
|
||||
around, or that was what it was like when I was in Finland. It's not
|
||||
that there's all these rigid rules as to what you do with the garbage.
|
||||
It is that when there's a question of, ``Will this harm others?'' or
|
||||
``Will this benefit me?'' the balance is more in the not harming others.
|
||||
|
||||
The same thing when I spent time in Japan. My Japanese and my Finnish
|
||||
are both rather low in being able to use it. French is pretty low as
|
||||
well, and I spent a year in Montr\'eal Qu\'ebec, where there is a bit
|
||||
of a perception that if you're not speaking French (less so than other
|
||||
parts of the province) you can be treated rather poorly.
|
||||
|
||||
The thing I found in all these spaces, was that by my sense that I
|
||||
am asking that they understand that I don't understand that well, but
|
||||
being willing to work with them, I felt way more ``at home'' in all
|
||||
these spaces, than I have in the vast majority of English speaking
|
||||
spaces.
|
||||
|
||||
In related topic (and this is probably for another time)\todo{Write this
|
||||
up}, I was asked where I was from in the city I live in, and have lived
|
||||
in now for I think more than 40 years in total (and was born here).
|
||||
|
||||
No, it wasn't the, ``But where are you really from?'' type thing that
|
||||
BIPOC people often report, but it did give me some sense of what that
|
||||
experience is like.\todo{Where are you really from?}
|
||||
|
||||
So... Let's get back to where I was going... With a better
|
||||
understanding that I'm not really in that capitalistic/individualistic
|
||||
view that the, ``Will you be selling that?'' question seems to mostly
|
||||
be coming from, the idea of getting this in the hands of people who can
|
||||
afford to pay what it's worth, is a bit of an affront to my ideals.
|
||||
|
||||
I absolutely want to make sure this will get in the hands of the people
|
||||
who I feel need to feel seen, and those are people who usually can't
|
||||
afford to pay what this would be worth, and one way that I have addressed
|
||||
that in the past (with digital goods), while still charging has been to
|
||||
have ``community copies,'' which I do wish to continue even with physical
|
||||
items.
|
||||
|
||||
I certainly want to be able to have this (and the journal), at a price
|
||||
which feels like it is the price which the version would be fair in terms
|
||||
of the time I put into it. I'd also like to say that those prices will
|
||||
include prices which will allow community editions both in print and
|
||||
digital.
|
||||
|
||||
Many artists, will sell stuff (even custom stuff), at a price that will
|
||||
``allow them to continue to do the art,'' and this is very
|
||||
understandable, that the main focus is to just be able to do what
|
||||
they want to, but I feel it often ends up being a bit misguided.
|
||||
|
||||
Why? I feel it's two issues, but a big one is what I have seen about
|
||||
how to price your work. I have attended workshops both for independent
|
||||
business people (not for people who are in an MLM, or some other form
|
||||
of contracting with a corporation so you can be an independent person
|
||||
under their roof), and artists about how to price your work.
|
||||
|
||||
Some of this has gone into huge degrees of detail about it, which I have
|
||||
to say works very well for some people, other situations have gone with
|
||||
some idea of really very simple things, which also works for some people.
|
||||
|
||||
All of this pricing ends up with some sense that things are often priced
|
||||
at a rate much higher than those that artists who just are trying to
|
||||
make enough money to keep doing their art will price things at.
|
||||
|
||||
The one thing particularly from the artist perspective, has been that by
|
||||
selling your work at a rate less than what it's worth, you end up
|
||||
devaluing other similar work from other artists.
|
||||
|
||||
I feel this is true, though it feels that you can justify the idea of
|
||||
giving your work away more easily than you can justify underpricing your
|
||||
work. Especially if you are doing both pricing at a fair price, and
|
||||
being able to somehow get stuff free.
|
||||
|
||||
So, I likely will be listing this as available for people who pay,
|
||||
though probably pricing at a premium over what I feel it is worth,
|
||||
and providing community copies to anyone who would like them (though
|
||||
in somewhat limited numbers).
|
||||
|
|
@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ So, briefly... A plural system is any body who has more people in it
|
|||
than the one that most people would thing there are. It includes things
|
||||
such as what is known as, ``dissociative identity disorder'' or DID, and
|
||||
other forms of plurality which can be intentional such as
|
||||
tulpamancy\footnote{is this the correct term?}, or it could just be
|
||||
tulpamancy\todo{is this the correct term?}, or it could just be
|
||||
something which has developed ``organically'' for the person.
|
||||
|
||||
We never decided to become plural, it is something that just happened,
|
||||
|
|
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|
@ -2,5 +2,7 @@
|
|||
|
||||
\include{Introduction.tex}
|
||||
\include{Syszine.tex}
|
||||
\include{Sales.tex}
|
||||
\include{Journaling.tex}
|
||||
|
||||
\input{099-footer-Volume1.tex}
|
|
@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ For now I'm doing this here, but it should be fixed up shortly.
|
|||
* [ ] Setup Bullet Journal
|
||||
* [ ] Daily Log
|
||||
* [ ] Key
|
||||
* [ ] Setup Document for Volume 1
|
||||
* [x] Setup Document for Volume 1
|
||||
|
||||
That's probably it for now.
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# 2023-11-19
|
||||
|
||||
* [ ] See yesterday.
|
||||
* [ ] Just keep going...
|
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