Chat transcript between Kevin McGillivray and Buster Benson. — Buster: For my new year’s resolution, I’m starting a low-quality, short-lived blog with musings on a question that might not have an answer: We need an alternative to the Hero's Journey Dear Nobody, Our fixation on the Hero's Journey is causing problems. I propose that we look for alternatives. The…link.medium.com Kevin: This reminds me of this post on “gardening games”:

Dear Nobody, Our fixation on the Hero’s Journey is causing problems. I propose that we look for alternatives. The alternative I’m looking for isn’t the Fool’s Journey, because in most Hero’s Journey stories the hero starts as a fool. And I’m not looking for the Anti-Hero’s Journey either because that’s…

The spaces where we disagree have a hidden effect on our arguments — Think back to a recent argument. Now put aside the argument itself and think about the environment that the argument happened within. Was there anything about the environment that encouraged or discouraged different fruit of disagreement to emerge? What was the power dynamic? What were the expectations for what had…

Take a break from whatever you’re doing to consider just how amazing it is that we exist simultaneously as a collective of intuitions, as individuals, as members of teams, organizations, nations, and as a small part of the natural world — all folded into a marvelous, thinking fractal. — I had a weird thought. Thinking Fast and Well Thinking happens at the level of neurons, synapses, and neurotransmitters at approximately 10 quadrillion (10 million billion) bits per second within each of our heads. That’s pretty cool. …