Deconstructing letters 13 – Creating and constructing knowledge content
This discussion of creating knowledge makes me reflect on the tasks I preformed over the summer at my internship. You have mentioned that we should take ownership of our work but at my work having ownership of you work is looked down upon as coding is a team effort. The work we do as a group is taking code that originated in the last millennia and re-work it over and over, building off of and improving on the last iteration and in some cases removing the old code that we have moved beyond. Having ownership over your work is so looked down upon that the first thing we are told to do is remove the automatic attribution in the software so that the code will not mention who wrote it.
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Deconstructing letters 14 – Sharing the world: Reading your social meeting reflections
Deconstructing letters 14 – Sharing the world: Reading your social meeting reflections
I find the 10-step process that we used to create our social meeting assignment interesting. The reason that I find it interesting is directly resultant from the great versatility that the prosses has as demonstrated in your letter. I think it is fascinating that this process can be used to implement 8 different research methodologies, self-reflection, participative observation, symbolic Interaction, auto-ethnography, dichotomous thinking, structures and structuring, interpretation, sharing thoughts and mental processes
I find the 10-step process that we used to create our social meeting assignment interesting. The reason that I find it interesting is directly resultant from the great versatility that the prosses has as demonstrated in your letter. I think it is fascinating that this process can be used to implement 8 different research methodologies, self-reflection, participative observation, symbolic Interaction, auto-ethnography, dichotomous thinking, structures and structuring, interpretation, sharing thoughts and mental processes
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Deconstructing letters 15 – Further reflection on your social meeting papers.
Deconstructing letters 15 – Further reflection on your social meeting papers
The idea of thoughts informed from or by your actions makes me think of the agile software development process. In this process work is done in two-week segments and at the end of the two weeks there is a retrospective meeting. At this meeting we look at the last two weeks and decide what we did well, what we did poorly, how can we improve and what did we learn. So in the software world the thoughts that are informed form you actions is given great credence.
The idea of thoughts informed from or by your actions makes me think of the agile software development process. In this process work is done in two-week segments and at the end of the two weeks there is a retrospective meeting. At this meeting we look at the last two weeks and decide what we did well, what we did poorly, how can we improve and what did we learn. So in the software world the thoughts that are informed form you actions is given great credence.
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Deconstructing letters 16 – Society of consumers
Deconstructing letters 16 – Society of consumers
This letter’s discussion of the how the world has changed after the invention of the internet and how people themselves are the commodities remined me of an interview I had with a company. What initially remined me of this was the fact that you mentioned the creation of the internet, this connects to the company I was interviewing with, BBN, as they came up with the initial idea of the internet and created its predecessor the ARPANET. This interview connects further with the letter as BBN has always seen their employees as the commodity they try to sell. When BBN proposes projects to people, they try to sell their people as the people who can come up with new seemingly crazy ideas and actually make them a reality so people have always been the commodity in the eyes of BBN.
This letter’s discussion of the how the world has changed after the invention of the internet and how people themselves are the commodities remined me of an interview I had with a company. What initially remined me of this was the fact that you mentioned the creation of the internet, this connects to the company I was interviewing with, BBN, as they came up with the initial idea of the internet and created its predecessor the ARPANET. This interview connects further with the letter as BBN has always seen their employees as the commodity they try to sell. When BBN proposes projects to people, they try to sell their people as the people who can come up with new seemingly crazy ideas and actually make them a reality so people have always been the commodity in the eyes of BBN.
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Deconstructing letters 17 – Living mindfully in cyber-culture
Deconstructing letters 17 – Living mindfully in cyber-culture
I fully agree with the idea of living mindfully in the cyber culture. We as a society should be performing deliberate actions and clearly know the reasons behind those actions. The mention of choosing what links not to click reminded me of a decision I made over the summer. Over the summer my work sent out an email regarding good cyber security practices and in the email, they included a link to a cyber security test we could take. I deliberately chose not to click the link as I thought that the link itself might be the test. I based this paranoia on an experience a friend of mine had at their internship. At their internship they received an internal company email and they clicked a link within it, as a result they were greeted with a security violation.
I fully agree with the idea of living mindfully in the cyber culture. We as a society should be performing deliberate actions and clearly know the reasons behind those actions. The mention of choosing what links not to click reminded me of a decision I made over the summer. Over the summer my work sent out an email regarding good cyber security practices and in the email, they included a link to a cyber security test we could take. I deliberately chose not to click the link as I thought that the link itself might be the test. I based this paranoia on an experience a friend of mine had at their internship. At their internship they received an internal company email and they clicked a link within it, as a result they were greeted with a security violation.
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Deconstructing letters 18 – Thinking process
Deconstructing letters 18 – Thinking process
I disapprove of the heavy use of metaphor in this letter. I find metaphors to muddle the idea that the writer tries to get across. I can support the overall message of watching our decisions and making changes to see where your ideas lead but what I cannot abide is the delivery. The use of metaphor makes me think of how society would be centuries behind technologically if scientist and engineers waxed poetically. This in turn reminded me of a story about the economist Arthur Pigou. Pigou had an important idea of taxing a group based on the societal harm they caused however due to his presentation of an overly complicated graph, this idea was not recognized until much later when other economists refined the graph to make it clearer.
I disapprove of the heavy use of metaphor in this letter. I find metaphors to muddle the idea that the writer tries to get across. I can support the overall message of watching our decisions and making changes to see where your ideas lead but what I cannot abide is the delivery. The use of metaphor makes me think of how society would be centuries behind technologically if scientist and engineers waxed poetically. This in turn reminded me of a story about the economist Arthur Pigou. Pigou had an important idea of taxing a group based on the societal harm they caused however due to his presentation of an overly complicated graph, this idea was not recognized until much later when other economists refined the graph to make it clearer.
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Deconstructing letters 19 – Apperception
Deconstructing letters 19 – Apperception
The ending of this letter really resonates with me “complexity matters and warrants our attention”. This sentence resonates with me as I feel that this is more important than ever as the world is getting more and more complicated so we should devote more time to seeing these complexities. This also resonates with me as I find that the more complicated problems are the ones that are the most satisfying to solve. Despite complex problems being difficult to get your head around I find that the value that I produce is in solving complex problems because if it was not complex they any random person could solve them.
The ending of this letter really resonates with me “complexity matters and warrants our attention”. This sentence resonates with me as I feel that this is more important than ever as the world is getting more and more complicated so we should devote more time to seeing these complexities. This also resonates with me as I find that the more complicated problems are the ones that are the most satisfying to solve. Despite complex problems being difficult to get your head around I find that the value that I produce is in solving complex problems because if it was not complex they any random person could solve them.
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Deconstructing letters 20 – Knowledge construction in a knowledge economy
Deconstructing letters 20 – Knowledge construction in a knowledge economy
This conference makes me reflect on two events. The first event that am reflecting on is the time I visited Germany. To sum up that experience, the only part that was not disappointing about Germany was the trains. The food, sites and the people were all meh and that is how I shall remember Germany.
The second experience that I reflected on was how my sister went to Berlin a few weeks ago to be a panelist at a block chain conference. The idea of block chain connects with the idea of knowledge creation as both are built on top of the efforts of those that came before. Block chain’s strength also relies on sharing knowledge and distributing it so that everyone and check everyone’s work similar to how knowledge is distributed and checked at conferences like the one in this letter.
This conference makes me reflect on two events. The first event that am reflecting on is the time I visited Germany. To sum up that experience, the only part that was not disappointing about Germany was the trains. The food, sites and the people were all meh and that is how I shall remember Germany.
The second experience that I reflected on was how my sister went to Berlin a few weeks ago to be a panelist at a block chain conference. The idea of block chain connects with the idea of knowledge creation as both are built on top of the efforts of those that came before. Block chain’s strength also relies on sharing knowledge and distributing it so that everyone and check everyone’s work similar to how knowledge is distributed and checked at conferences like the one in this letter.
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Deconstructing letters 21 – Friendship again
Deconstructing letters 21 – Friendship again
I think that friendship is an interesting topic to cover. This topic is full of wonderful complexity especially the question of what is a friend. This question is very complex as it is very much based on the individual and who they consider friends. If I come up with a list of friends and try to come up a definition that makes them friends that definition would be completely different from another person’s definition. To add to the complexity many of the people that fit that definition would not be considered friends and many that are would not fit that definition. So I find the complexity of friendship to be a very interesting topic to write about.
I think that friendship is an interesting topic to cover. This topic is full of wonderful complexity especially the question of what is a friend. This question is very complex as it is very much based on the individual and who they consider friends. If I come up with a list of friends and try to come up a definition that makes them friends that definition would be completely different from another person’s definition. To add to the complexity many of the people that fit that definition would not be considered friends and many that are would not fit that definition. So I find the complexity of friendship to be a very interesting topic to write about.
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Deconstructing letters 22 – Creative action
Deconstructing letters 22 – Creative action
This letter’s mention of design thinking makes me reflect on mechanism design, a subset of game theory where you have a goal in mind and you try to create a path to achieve that goal. This in turn made me think of game theory in general. Game theory is far more suited to a discussion of design thinking. Game theory it is all about looking at a situation and creating the most of that situation just like the creative actions of design theory.
This letter’s mention of design thinking makes me reflect on mechanism design, a subset of game theory where you have a goal in mind and you try to create a path to achieve that goal. This in turn made me think of game theory in general. Game theory is far more suited to a discussion of design thinking. Game theory it is all about looking at a situation and creating the most of that situation just like the creative actions of design theory.
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Deconstructing letters 23 – Engagement and Construction
Deconstructing letters 23 – Engagement and Construction
I think that the tools to construct meaning is an admirable goal of the paper. I find it interesting that one of the goals is to “promote each participant’s self-worth”. This goal is interesting as I have found that I have always had a high opinion of myself and thus never found myself lacking in the self-worth department. It is my belief that the tools that this class is teaching is applicable to another people’s view of our worth. This belief is resultant from the fact that our reworking of text and creation of value is adding value in the eyes of other’s by adding our personal experiences.
I think that the tools to construct meaning is an admirable goal of the paper. I find it interesting that one of the goals is to “promote each participant’s self-worth”. This goal is interesting as I have found that I have always had a high opinion of myself and thus never found myself lacking in the self-worth department. It is my belief that the tools that this class is teaching is applicable to another people’s view of our worth. This belief is resultant from the fact that our reworking of text and creation of value is adding value in the eyes of other’s by adding our personal experiences.
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Deconstructing letters 24 – Social network and new forms of sociality
Deconstructing letters 24 – Social network and new forms of sociality
The discussion of our social networks in the fishbowl causes me to reflect on the creation of the ARPANET, the system which a company I interviewed with created. This network which was created in 1969 would be completely revolutionary. This company connected several computers of the university and government from all over the country to establish the first internet. The network was able to create a host of new possibilities like in the fishbowl. The network allowed for researchers to have a new faster way of sharing ideas and working together and this revolutionized the world forever.
The discussion of our social networks in the fishbowl causes me to reflect on the creation of the ARPANET, the system which a company I interviewed with created. This network which was created in 1969 would be completely revolutionary. This company connected several computers of the university and government from all over the country to establish the first internet. The network was able to create a host of new possibilities like in the fishbowl. The network allowed for researchers to have a new faster way of sharing ideas and working together and this revolutionized the world forever.