Hrm, speaking of insights, here’s a part of one… Or more some vague notions I’ve had based on some other ideas plus this plus self observation:
To “rapid fire think”, sometimes it helps to almost be in a bit of a chaotic environment, maybe, in which there’s lots of “rapid fire” stuff going on. I’m not claiming any cog sci concept or anything, just a bit based on self observation and stuff others seem to have noted. Maybe the “classroom in a dojo” model, on its own, isn’t really the right one either.
Maybe we want more something that’s hybrid dojo, monestary, and con, with some sort of oscilating schedule, so that there’d be periodic, well, periods of a couple days to “sit down and chew on stuff”. Heck, my understanding is that this notion (well, the con aspect) was kind of the motivation for the creation of Penguicon in the first place. ie, the OSS bunch noticed “hey, the rapid fire adapt/reshapin in the face of chaos that seems to work in SF cons may be something we want to get in on and take advantage of ourselves”
Not to generalize from fictional evidence, but merely to point out one conception of this sort of thing, Charles Stross’s story “Dechlorninating the Moderator” is basically a “what if the physics community got stuff done via physics cons that are socially similar to SF cons?” (incidentally, the key tech development that was relevant to the story was tabletop size accelerators based on laser wakefield acceleration)
Also, I’ve noticed in myself I can’t handle too much, well, “overstimulation” for lack of a better word, but at least it feels like my mind is firing faster in a slightly more chaotic environment/situation, as long as I can “find a place in it.” (Sorry for vagueness, but I fully concede these are vague notions, just tossing it out as something to work with or to destroy as utterly absurd, while I think on it more)
Anyways, I’ve also noted in myself that it’s much easier to grab myself and basically say “actually consider other argument rather than just try to defend my own position at all costs” if I have a bit of time to breath and distance myself from the situation and so on. So, based on that, if one wanted to make some sort of school/dojo/hidden secret center in an undisclosed location, I’d think one might want to have it structured so that it would be regularly oscilating between chaotic hyperactivity and almost “relaxing retreat.”
Anyways, just tossing out that thought/potentially either useful or useless insight since it seemed relevant here.
Hrm, speaking of insights, here’s a part of one… Or more some vague notions I’ve had based on some other ideas plus this plus self observation:
To “rapid fire think”, sometimes it helps to almost be in a bit of a chaotic environment, maybe, in which there’s lots of “rapid fire” stuff going on. I’m not claiming any cog sci concept or anything, just a bit based on self observation and stuff others seem to have noted. Maybe the “classroom in a dojo” model, on its own, isn’t really the right one either.
Maybe we want more something that’s hybrid dojo, monestary, and con, with some sort of oscilating schedule, so that there’d be periodic, well, periods of a couple days to “sit down and chew on stuff”. Heck, my understanding is that this notion (well, the con aspect) was kind of the motivation for the creation of Penguicon in the first place. ie, the OSS bunch noticed “hey, the rapid fire adapt/reshapin in the face of chaos that seems to work in SF cons may be something we want to get in on and take advantage of ourselves”
Not to generalize from fictional evidence, but merely to point out one conception of this sort of thing, Charles Stross’s story “Dechlorninating the Moderator” is basically a “what if the physics community got stuff done via physics cons that are socially similar to SF cons?” (incidentally, the key tech development that was relevant to the story was tabletop size accelerators based on laser wakefield acceleration)
Also, I’ve noticed in myself I can’t handle too much, well, “overstimulation” for lack of a better word, but at least it feels like my mind is firing faster in a slightly more chaotic environment/situation, as long as I can “find a place in it.” (Sorry for vagueness, but I fully concede these are vague notions, just tossing it out as something to work with or to destroy as utterly absurd, while I think on it more)
Anyways, I’ve also noted in myself that it’s much easier to grab myself and basically say “actually consider other argument rather than just try to defend my own position at all costs” if I have a bit of time to breath and distance myself from the situation and so on. So, based on that, if one wanted to make some sort of school/dojo/hidden secret center in an undisclosed location, I’d think one might want to have it structured so that it would be regularly oscilating between chaotic hyperactivity and almost “relaxing retreat.”
Anyways, just tossing out that thought/potentially either useful or useless insight since it seemed relevant here.