2019 reflection question

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 13, 2020 at 09:06 AM

I entirely agree: mental structures are a vital prerequisite for setting up useful/usable data structures, but do themselves evolve as you continue to use your digital structures. As multidimensional organisms, our minds evolve as we use them (although habits can cause a whole bunch of structures to become ossified), which directly impacts our external methodologies. I guess computers are the closest thing we’ve found to an external tool that can be persuaded to more or less mirror what’s going on internally. Pen and paper being the predecessors (and still preferred by some); Minority Report-style manipulable holographics being, I suspect, the next step (actually, maybe the Tony Stark/Iron Man UX is closer to the next evolutionary stage).

All mediated through our amazing hands/fingers/speech mechanisms, of course. Prior to achieving true brain-to-machine interfacing…

washere wrote:
>I already knew my data was more important than the latest snazzy jazzy
>apps.
>But I realized more important yet, was my data structures.
> >And i am not just talking about the apps’ or digital data structures,
>that is the outer circle.
> >But also my mental data structuring for new ideas. These are symbiotic
>with the digital data structures, influence is both ways.
>Because these mental data structures, which go largely unnoticed, shape
>my data, my ideas.
>These are the inner circles.
>Even then, there are more important factors than these mere surface
>mental mechanics.
> >