My Campfire Story

preparation

There is a purpose that becomes urgent, requiring us to act. To act with all that we are so that we may become.

- [x] Transition from student to master.

- [x] Paradigm shifts. Aikido, federated wiki, resilience engineering, extreme programming, reliability engineering

- [x] Past behavior best predictor of future behavior. What motivated me in the past was frustration in my own education. Algebra class bored me out of my mind. Turtle geometry inspired me. That first epiphany with discovering an abstraction for myself. Triangle, Square. Polygon of N sides. A hint of topology—all regular polygons are different resolutions of a circle. A hint of infinitesimals.

- [x] Learning! but not Schooling. There has to be a better way.

- [ ] Programming demands deep learning to teach computers something humans care about. The automation part is almost the least interesting thing.

- [x] Aikido—how have the martial arts survived the rise and fall of civilizations?

- [x] Changing Frames

Perception depends on context. From one point of view the way seems impassible. From another point of view the path is revealed. Each view is limited by its own frame. Changing frames changes perception. Changing perception changes both understanding and action.

- [ ] Learned when I was in Italy that my mental model of "The Dark Ages" was both wrong and a kind of propaganda.

- [ ] Hindsight: mom was an educator & dad sold electronics. They divorced. Ed Tech is a proxy for my sense of responsibility for the divorce.

- [ ] A general purpose model of motivation. See Rhythm Autonomy Mastery Purpose Safety

- [ ] I'm surprised I haven't created more explorables:

story

YOUTUBE Gg63wPhnE0E Published 2025-11-17

concepts

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axisA -> t_fedwiki; axisA -> t_scale; axisA -> t_embodied; axisA -> t_pov; axisA -> t_community; axisA -> t_journey_struct; // Axis B — Paradigm shifts & frames axisB -> t_paradigms; axisB -> t_aikido; axisB -> t_resilience; axisB -> t_fedwiki; axisB -> t_pov; axisB -> t_patterns; axisB -> t_computing; // Axis C — Power, control, agency axisC -> t_power; axisC -> t_frustration; axisC -> t_scale; axisC -> t_resilience; axisC -> t_fedwiki; axisC -> t_peer; // Axis D — Joy, frustration, motivation axisD -> t_joy; axisD -> t_frustration; axisD -> t_computing; axisD -> t_aikido; axisD -> t_community; axisD -> t_journey_struct; // Axis E — Bridging communities, patterns, story axisE -> t_bridging; axisE -> t_patterns; axisE -> t_fedwiki; axisE -> t_resilience; axisE -> t_pov; axisE -> t_pointing; axisE -> t_peer; axisE -> t_journey_struct; // Relationships between topics (edges = “strong conceptual ties”) // Frustration <-> Joy / motivation t_frustration -> t_joy [label="tension / engine", fontsize=9]; t_joy -> t_frustration [style=dashed, fontsize=9, label="co-motivates"]; // Peer learning & Aikido / embodied learning t_peer -> t_aikido [label="partner-based\nlearning", fontsize=9]; t_aikido -> t_embodied [label="embodied\npractice", fontsize=9]; // Peer learning & joint cognitive systems / resilience t_peer -> t_resilience [label="joint cognitive\nsystems", fontsize=9]; t_resilience -> t_scale [label="system\nboundaries", fontsize=9]; // Multiple POVs & patterns & pointing t_pov -> t_patterns [label="frame as\npattern", fontsize=9]; t_pointing -> t_pov [label="locates\nview", fontsize=9]; // Paradigm shifts around FedWiki & resilience & Aikido t_paradigms -> t_fedwiki [label="bring-your-own-disc", fontsize=9]; t_paradigms -> t_resilience [label="safety science\nshift", fontsize=9]; t_paradigms -> t_aikido [label="no-competition", fontsize=9]; // Power, control, agency and scale t_power -> t_scale [label="scope of\ninfluence", fontsize=9]; t_power -> t_frustration[label="blocked\nagency", fontsize=9]; // Computing & joy / Promethean moments t_computing -> t_joy [label="Promethean\ninsights", fontsize=9]; // FedWiki <-> community & bridging t_fedwiki -> t_community [label="shared\njournals", fontsize=9]; t_fedwiki -> t_bridging [label="cross-community\nbridge", fontsize=9]; // Journeys & reflection structures as meta t_journey_struct -> t_patterns [label="patterned\nreflection", fontsize=9]; t_journey_struct -> t_peer [label="structured\nlistening", fontsize=9]; t_journey_struct -> t_bridging [label="stories as\nbridges", fontsize=9]; // Bridging communities across domains t_bridging -> t_resilience [label="safety ↔ wiki", fontsize=9]; t_bridging -> t_aikido [label="martial ↔ org", fontsize=9]; t_bridging -> t_computing [label="code ↔\nexperience", fontsize=9]; // Community & motivation t_community -> t_frustration [style=dashed, label="holds\nfrustration", fontsize=9]; t_community -> t_joy [style=dashed, label="supports\njoy", fontsize=9]; }

surprises

- POV and Vermeer's painting (Changing Frames) - Prometheus narrative and frustration - Akido as a new paradigm - a conversation

association

patterning

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