on a unrelated note

i really am pretty damn exhilarated about my systems thingy

lol

i kinda get your general gist,

but it’s stil a tad confusing for me to understand completely what you’re trying to say

it will take me time to get to the stage where i can communicate it effectively

but essentially it is easy to understand because it is very analagous to all complex systems

i hope to do justice to what i’m defining as a personal system

i share my own and encourage other people to visualise theirs

and point out how the network of relationships between elements work

i think it’s the sort of thing

and how by identifying core/key nodes you can control the entire system

better conveyed through a conversation/video than a infographic chart

you could try vlogging, idk

i’m going to make it part of a series

and then make specific posts at varying depths

imagine you’re talking about a city instead

how a city is made up of relationships

a man, his friends, his family, his job, his coffeeshop, his pub, his club, his music scene, his government, etc

that’s one man

if you take all those many men

and chart all their stories simultaneously

you have a picture of a living breathing organism that is a city

now if you change “man” to “neuron”, you have a picture of consciousness

if you change neuron to atom, you have a picture of physics

i’m interested in the study of such pictures

rather than any individual picture itself

(though it helps to get down and dirty with a few different ones)

and a thorough understanding of how these systems look, work, operate- will benefit anybody working in any system (which everyone is, in some way) to understand how they can manage their role and leverage it to affect an entire system

it’s staggeringly ambitious because it is so big and so small at the same time, it works at every level in every context

you could then take this knowledge and apply it to managing your life, or your business, or a music scene, or a nation… systems management. it’s gonna be a thing

i’ve actually heard this theory before

in city harvest church

it isn’t a new idea

it’s just never really been put across effectively, i feel

it’s always done within a system

like a top business leader wil describe it

a top religious leader will describe it

etc

micro instead of macro?

but rarely do people talk about how it goes across all fields

no, in the context of city harvest church

the theory was floated the same you you propose it

yeah, once yu master a context, you realise how THAT system work

*s

that system structures are consistent

across multiple fields,

religious, business, political, economic

academic, biologic

philosophical

sociological

yeap

that’s what people like einstein mean when they say it’s far more incredible that the universe is consistent than that it isn’t, that it can be measured rather than not

i have been staring at plants and trees a lot lately because i’m starting to see the mathematical expression in them

i don’t mean to think that plants know maths- rather, through trial and error they begin to tend towards a mathematically ideal distribution

the same for businesses, religion, everything

my perspective is that an understanding of this would allow us to skip a lot of the error in trial and error

and would accelerate human progress

so that’s what i want my life’s work to be focusd on

how do you plan to go about doing that?

is there the academic support available?

no solid university teaches this

there are a few in obscure ones

because.. the scope is really too massive lol

extensive

no, be smart

i’m still working on my plan

you don’t need to personally study every system

of course

i plan to facilitate this rather than do it on my own

what you need to do is dedicate yourself to one field and then commission a study team of researchers

actually if i do go uni i’ll probably do something like literature or design

because the main skill i need

is expression and/or design, literaly

is to communicate

*literally

how to get stuff across

yeah

urban planning is very similar

even biology or neuroscience

i could do any of those things and distil out stuff that is relevant, because what i’m building is a framework

and everything fits into it

so it’s more useful to learn how to communicate it well

i think graphic design is a huge factor

consider www.informationisbeautiful.net

it is,

but i feel your ideas would be better communicated in a more mainstream medium

i plan to write books and beome a world-famous blogger

i don’t think of that as me trying to be some big fuck

i see these ideas in a lot of books by awesome people

and i feel privileged to notice them

don’t take this the wrong way but that’s awfully small-scale

and i feel obliged to share

books and blogs small scale? what’s bigger

consider the media of communication nowadays

what is the most effective medium of communication you see around you?

that is a very complicated question lol

word of mouth

sorry, let me rephrase

effective and efficient, using scale and reach as criteria

effective and efficient at the moment are not synonymous

if you want to reach many people you cannot go deep

my long term plan is to build a global network in a project i call army of heroes

…

jokingly lah

seriously.

yes seriously

n_n is like a baby step

the idea is to create communities that go on to create other communities

as part of a vast ultra network of …

like CHC cell groups lah

>_>

i knew that was coming

well my idea seemed a lot me grand until i realised pastor kong did it first

correction

jesus did it first

jesus

yes

hahaha

well jesus is col

*cool

you see the flaw in that plan thoguh?

i have to… die?

>_>

not to be a cynic, i mean

no

hit me

something that massive inevitably gets corrupted and distorted, and it’s hard to manage and govern it while keeping it centred around its prime directive

pretty much yeah

starting small

will figure it out along the way

that’s why i specifically seek out peple like you to keep me in check

i mean i love you as a friend and brother, without it, and even more for it

you know what i mean

(incidentally this is what i was talking about with books and blogs being small scale, religion/philosophical movements, thats what were talking about)

aw

the blogger is the new god leh

here comes the l word

tim ferris, seth godin

i plan to reach their level and befriend them

i don’t disagree

i mean when i say plan it’s just a rough idea la open to change

with the influence of the blogger, but imho they only directly impact a select group of people

yes

and any further dissemination of their message is beyond their control

but see the head fake people do

tim: hack your body… then become awesome

neil: get girls… then become awesome

seth: be a business guru… then become awesome

or rather, their philsophical value is hidden under an outward agenda

i don’t think its a real agenda lah

sort of

but you already know that

yah

can’t really isolate any thing

more of a common consensus

what i want

is for people to see it, and see the value across all 3, for example

and get everyone to be everything, in a way

(although… yeah i see the flaw)

dunno lah. a lot to think about. for now i am still focusing on my personal journey

chc’s philosophy was much the same

it was the whole agenda behind the sun ho project actually

the problem with chc i feel is that it’s a bit too militant and people inside don’t really go outside

my idea is that you are supposed to spend less than 20% of your time with me

bit too militant is like saying milfs are too sexy

hahaha

times are changing

people prefer subtle to overt

“my fundamental philosophy will be that you are supposed to spend less than 20% of your time with me”

same as chc again

even less then

i dunno

hahahaha

to break it down simply

chc’s fundamental philosophy was that people would come to church on sunday

and then for the remaining 6 days of the week they’d go out as agents of change in a sort of viral reproduction system

but everything eventually pools back in, right? my focus is that everything should keep spreading out without looking back in

ideally, break off and do your own thing

find your own reasons, purpose, agenda, and go do it

the plan was to empower individuals to rise to the top of their industry and then from there further engineer the distribution of change

well breaking off and doing their own things

but still ultimately contributing to the church, right? i don’t want that

not really,

think instead

of pulling people in,

pushing the church out

well it’s a formula that works and i have no shame in emulating it LOL

emulate but study the flaws

i personally feel the only flaw is the product, not the sales mechanism

well i mean i exaggerate

you are very much the product

it can surely be improved

at this point

no leh

the product is the central organism of human knowledge and the idea is to get people to contriute to it

so it’s broader than religion

yes,

but i know what you mean

ok i gotta run sorry catch ya later

but in order to sell people on that concept you must first get yourself into

a position of influence

mm

seeya