Today I talked with Mimi Yin, who teaches collective play at ITP. A lot of insights from our conversation:
1. The idea that altruism is in a negative space, and you almost define it by saying by what is NOT altruistic.
2. The kind of person who gets joy from making other people happy is different than the kind of person who does something to be better than everything else. We talked about how social media provides a social reward, but because of the way individual profiles exist it becomes more like a flex/competition, ie I’ll like your stuff if you like mine. Maybe a collective profile or shared space?
3. Figure out what kind of game “reward” you get that is in line with altruism, but has this sense of “oh it isn’t just for me” or “it isn’t always for me”.
4. How to create this feeling: getting joy out of other people getting something
5. Creating a catalogue for where I can find altruistic acts in real life, try to group them and see what they have in common.
I was wondering if you ever considered changing the
structure of your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say.
But maybe you could a little more in tthe way of content so people
could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for oonly
aving one or twwo images. Maybe you could space it out better? https://lvivforum.Pp.ua/