Paul Buchheit - Latest Comments in Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

Tripe — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:45:43 -0000

If all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

AJ Kohn — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:20:26 -0000

I missed this the first time around but I'm glad I got to read it. I'm passionate about the everyday details in our lives having the most impact on happiness and productivity. I truly believe this.

I've certainly benefited from sharing and being open - most of that coming on FriendFeed. I learn, I laugh, I get ideas, I meet new people. It's a wonderful non-linear experience. A giant William Burrough's Cut-Up.

And I think I can see the same sort of Shangri-La based on the open exchange of experience and knowledge. I would certainly welcome a shift away from homogenization.

Yet, I worry that the same openness can bring in our lesser natures. A look at YouTube comments or some MySpace pages can be an object lesson in bigotry, cruelty and hate.

Would the openness create more group think? And would the loudest of us, not the smartest, be the ones to carry the message forward? I don't know the answers. Perhaps being open would slay the negativity, I'd like to think so but I have my doubts.

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

Mark Essel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:19:04 -0000

What a great way to envision the process of our world melting. The barriers which isolate us (globally, or even in our towns) are falling down in the face of sharing our lives.

One startling discovery for me was that phones could translate voice to text, and translate the language, to allow two people to communicate who could not do so before hand. That ability is simply immeasurable.

Open language and communicating is part of "open as in water".

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jenifer — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:48:04 -0000

thanks for sharing this site. there are various kinds of ebooks available from here

http://feboook.blogspot.com

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

Name — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:54:40 -0000

Paul, is this true about plans as well? I just read - "Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them." - http://sivers.org/zipit

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mytweetmark — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:42:50 -0000

Really enjoyed this article. Cheers.

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Lincoln Nguyen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:37:18 -0000

Great stuff. I've always been against building my startup in stealth for this reason.

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Marshall Kirkpatrick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:40:52 -0000

Good stuff, Paul. After I finish writing the research report on the real-time web and its future that I'm working on now, I'm going to be focusing on discussing the social benefits we could accrue from opening up Facebook data in anonymous aggregate for outside analysis. Hope you'll join me in that conversation.

ps Disqus makes it very hard to comment by iPhone :(

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pganti — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:46:48 -0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... should also be a good reading for you

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soyapi — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:35:42 -0000

"Open living" helps one stay honest and guilt-free too!

And that should be a good thing unless if you have something nasty to hide.

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davemc500hats — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:53:59 -0000

great post.

it is daunting / narcissistic / self-absorbed / embarrassing to share your life into the feed.

so let's get to it ;)

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

uvince — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:58:30 -0000

That's the trick, what needs to happen is the payoff. That all of these mundane little updates will add up to awesome connections, interesting snips and books to read and of course fun things to do.

I haven't seen too many services start to payoff yet, but I hope Facebook and others will enable this type of discovery within itself and other services.

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varunmahajan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:38:57 -0000

Open-source life...I like that

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kurtiss — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:31 -0000

I think we should critically examine the notion that humanity will thrive under more open conditions. It's only this rough consensus of the realtime, and my desire to have something other than what exists, that makes me think it will.

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

John — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:08 -0000

Aren't you closing yourself off from a "closed world" by only accepting an "open world?" Who's to say they aren't both necessary to a degree?

Re: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life

Louis Gray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:10 -0000

Paul, I hope with time you don't find yourself embarrassed about having a blog. Embrace it!

There was an interesting conversation on my own blog (which I'm only occasionally embarrassed about) on the definition of Open APIs. Depending on one's perspective, some of the social services you mentioned are perceived to be more closed than others, and this, from what I see as the general trend, will be changing over time.

http://blog.louisgray.com/2...

As you know, in the two years I've used FriendFeed as a platform, I have gotten to connect to some fantastic people through your openness. Through this openness, I believe I have gotten to know you and your family. I get to discover those things you like and those things you do, as well as the things thousands of others like, do and think. We are open because we want to be open, and the tools are increasingly getting better to make this process easy and natural.

Thanks for your contributions to this process. I have both high hopes and expectations for you, and look forward to much more. Keep blogging too. :)