So the other week I read about viewquakes. I also read about things a CS major could do that aren’t covered by the usual curriculum. And then this article about the relationship escalator. Those gave me not quite a viewquake but clarified a few things I already had in mind and showed me some I had not.
What I am wondering is now, can anyone here give me a non-technical viewquake? What non-technical resources can give me the strongest viewquake akin to the CS major answer? With non-technical I mean material that doesn’t fall into the usual STEM spectrum people around here should be well versed in.
Many non-technical viewquakes are deep in the mindkilling territory. I guess I better refrain from giving specific examples, but it may seem from outside like this:
A: I read this insightful book / article / website and it completely changed the way I see the world.
B: Dude, you are completely brainwashed and delusional.
The lesson is that “dramatically changing one’s world view” is not necessarily the same as “corresponding better with the territory”. And it can be sometimes difficult to evaluate the latter. Just because many people firmly believe theory X is true, does not make it true. Just because many people firmly believe theory X is false, does not make it false. For many theories you will find both kinds of people.
I had a viewquake a few years ago when I stayed silent with a group of friends I normally would have interacted with. Their subconscious prodding of me to fulfill my usual social role revealed to me that I even had a specific role in the group in the first place, and subsequently opened me up to a lot of things that I had disregarded before.
What non-technical resources can give me the strongest viewquake akin to the CS major answer?
Could you explain in what way that answer caused a viewquake? I see some information that some people might not have known beforehand but it doesn’t seem to me that fundamental.
Typing isn’t taught in universities but being reminded that typing is important for programming doesn’t change anything groundbreaking about the world.
That annoying website not only wants your email, it also wants you to fill in a bunch of information so it can “send you updates”, just so you are allowed to read it.
Contacts on what? Your comments makes it sound like it will use its authorization with a Google Account to send spam. And I just clicked the permission button 30 seconds before reading it.
More specifically: I connected to Quora using my Facebook account. When I connected, within the Quora system the message “Viliam is following your questions and answers” was sent to all Quora users who are also my Facebook contacts.
As far as I know, it didn’t do anything outside of Quora. But even this is kinda creepy. I discovered it when one of those users asked me in a FB message why exactly am I following his questions (in given context, it seemed like a rather creepy action by me). I didn’t even know what he was speaking about.
So the lesson is that if Quora later shows you announcements like: “XYZ is interested in your questions”, it most likely means that XYZ simply joined Quora, and Quora knows you two know each other. (Also, you can remove the people you are following in Quora settings. You probably didn’t even know you are “following” them, did you?)
I hate this kind of behavior, when social networks pretend their users have some activity among them, when in reality they don’t. But I generalize this suspicion to all software. Whenever some software tells me: “Your friend XYZ wants you to do this, or tells you that”, I always assume it is a lie. And if my friends XYZ really wants me to do something, they should tell me that using their own words outside of the system I don’t know. For example by phone, email, or facebook (not auto-generated) message.
How about reading one of the books in the first link?
Already did read most of them.
Could you explain in what way that answer caused a viewquake?
I quote myself
Those gave me not quite a viewquake but clarified a few things I already had in mind and showed me some I had not.
The CS example showed that a college curriculum is not comprehensive and there are quite a few skills to be named improving on the sorry saying “You go to college not only for the curriculum but so much more”.
Did you previously expect that college curriculums are actually optimized to teach all skills that are needed on the job?
No, but neither did I think that the relationship escalator is a natural state of the world. But having something like that spelled out when one has not thought about it can be very helpful.
So the other week I read about viewquakes. I also read about things a CS major could do that aren’t covered by the usual curriculum. And then this article about the relationship escalator. Those gave me not quite a viewquake but clarified a few things I already had in mind and showed me some I had not.
What I am wondering is now, can anyone here give me a non-technical viewquake? What non-technical resources can give me the strongest viewquake akin to the CS major answer? With non-technical I mean material that doesn’t fall into the usual STEM spectrum people around here should be well versed in.
Not sure this is clear enough.
Many non-technical viewquakes are deep in the mindkilling territory. I guess I better refrain from giving specific examples, but it may seem from outside like this:
A: I read this insightful book / article / website and it completely changed the way I see the world.
B: Dude, you are completely brainwashed and delusional.
The lesson is that “dramatically changing one’s world view” is not necessarily the same as “corresponding better with the territory”. And it can be sometimes difficult to evaluate the latter. Just because many people firmly believe theory X is true, does not make it true. Just because many people firmly believe theory X is false, does not make it false. For many theories you will find both kinds of people.
I had a viewquake a few years ago when I stayed silent with a group of friends I normally would have interacted with. Their subconscious prodding of me to fulfill my usual social role revealed to me that I even had a specific role in the group in the first place, and subsequently opened me up to a lot of things that I had disregarded before.
Auf Englisch wuerde man STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics nutzen statt MINT.
Ich wusste irgendwas stimmt nicht mit der Abkürzung. Danke für die Korrektur.
How about reading one of the books in the first link? Otherwise https://www.quora.com/Jobs-1/Whats-something-that-is-common-knowledge-at-your-work-place-but-would-be-mind-blowing-to-the-rest-of-us is a good thread.
Could you explain in what way that answer caused a viewquake? I see some information that some people might not have known beforehand but it doesn’t seem to me that fundamental.
Typing isn’t taught in universities but being reminded that typing is important for programming doesn’t change anything groundbreaking about the world.
Gah!
That annoying website not only wants your email, it also wants you to fill in a bunch of information so it can “send you updates”, just so you are allowed to read it.
Try this version of the link.
And then when you join, it will display a message to all your contacts that you are “following their answers”, of course without telling you anything.
Contacts on what? Your comments makes it sound like it will use its authorization with a Google Account to send spam. And I just clicked the permission button 30 seconds before reading it.
More specifically: I connected to Quora using my Facebook account. When I connected, within the Quora system the message “Viliam is following your questions and answers” was sent to all Quora users who are also my Facebook contacts.
As far as I know, it didn’t do anything outside of Quora. But even this is kinda creepy. I discovered it when one of those users asked me in a FB message why exactly am I following his questions (in given context, it seemed like a rather creepy action by me). I didn’t even know what he was speaking about.
So the lesson is that if Quora later shows you announcements like: “XYZ is interested in your questions”, it most likely means that XYZ simply joined Quora, and Quora knows you two know each other. (Also, you can remove the people you are following in Quora settings. You probably didn’t even know you are “following” them, did you?)
I hate this kind of behavior, when social networks pretend their users have some activity among them, when in reality they don’t. But I generalize this suspicion to all software. Whenever some software tells me: “Your friend XYZ wants you to do this, or tells you that”, I always assume it is a lie. And if my friends XYZ really wants me to do something, they should tell me that using their own words outside of the system I don’t know. For example by phone, email, or facebook (not auto-generated) message.
Already did read most of them.
I quote myself
The CS example showed that a college curriculum is not comprehensive and there are quite a few skills to be named improving on the sorry saying “You go to college not only for the curriculum but so much more”.
Did you previously expect that college curriculums are actually optimized to teach all skills that are needed on the job?
No, but neither did I think that the relationship escalator is a natural state of the world. But having something like that spelled out when one has not thought about it can be very helpful.