Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing
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Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing
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#2Awesome article, but I'll continue to document.
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#3Awesome article, but I'll continue to document.
And there's nothing wrong with that. It's when you go out of your way or spend most of your time at an event or place taking photos to share on social media that it becomes a problem.
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#4Awesome article, but I'll continue to document.
The documentation will come handy when you are 80 and have nothing to do but look back at your life.
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#5As with many things, this is all about finding a healthy balance between the two.
+1 on the article for expressing something I've also thought about recently.
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#6This is something I always noticed sitting in lectures trying my best to listen (and writing occasional brief notes) while other students attempted to scribble as much content as they could into their notebooks. I think one of the main reasons that lectures are pedagogically terrible (that is, don’t lead to the learning they are supposed to) is that student audiences are too worried about writing things down to think about what it means.
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#7It seems so strange that those that own
a computer, though they are the neatest of folks,
keep desktops which to me evoke
a big litter of icons chaotically strewn.
And picture folders seldom rise
much above this low bar, a numerical swarm
of filenames which never can perform
their old duty of bringing some peace to our eyes.
That we might break these habits which haunt
us, I offer some simple advice.
In this case, as in life, I think it is wise:
to give up those things we neither need nor want.
Re: Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing
#8Thanks for documenting this experience for us to ponder on as well.
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#9If Project Glass or its competing initiatives ever turn into a usable reality, perhaps we don't have to make the tradeoff between experiencing and documenting. (Even if it might be strange to wear those to your wedding.)
Maybe a strong MVP of head-mounted displays would focus on capturing and sharing, be it from Google or anyone else.
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#10This is something I always noticed sitting in lectures trying my best to listen (and writing occasional brief notes) while other students attempted to scribble as much content as they could into their notebooks. I think one of the main reasons that lectures are pedagogically terrible (that is, don’t lead to the learning they are supposed to) is that student audiences are too worried about writing things down to think…
Some of the most effective lectures I had at university were where the lecturer handed out notes covering the bulk of what was being covered in each lecture but then proceeded to talk around the notes providing context and working through examples - so not taking basically became an annotation, rather than a transcription, process.