The Noises in Your Town

Insights are derived from your problems.
Problems are clarified by silence.
Silence is identified as a clarifier when you are so inundated by noise that clarity constantly evades you.

What does any of this have to do with tech, or community?

Well, noise is everywhere.
Noise is everywhere if you value having insights.
If you’re reading this you probably clicked out of curiosity.
I can’t tell you whether or not you were inundated by noise or you felt clarity before you clicked to read this.

What I can tell you is if being on most social media platforms doesn’t leave you wanting to stare at a wall for hours on end to get signal then the things I write here might not be for you.

None of the competent people I know spend time perusing ANY media platforms for pleasure.

How do I know this?

Take it from someone who’s on a mission to identify and decipher between noise and signal.

MOST OF IT IS NOISE.

The worst part about most media landscapes nowadays is that not only are you consuming mostly noise,
You’re doing NOTHING and doing EVERYTHING at the same time.

If you no longer want to keep reading then you’re the person I mentioned above who isn’t left wanting to stare at a wall after being on any media platform.

If you do, all I can do from here is write to reduce your confusion and increase your clarity.

If you have no desire to become incredibly competent at anything, you have no reference point to understand the prerequisites that are required to achieve this competence.

If you want a glimpse into what those prerequisites might be…
Open up X, IG, Youtube or your favourite NOISE INJECTOR in one tab/app on your screen,
Then open up a note taking app or tab on your screen,
Then attempt to write something entertaining, or novel, or clarifying, something you would be proud to post, while simultaneously having the app open next to your notes. 

After doing this, hopefully you understand what I really mean by noise, and WHY IT’S NOISE.

Imagine your brain was a car,
Just a car,
And you simultaneously had one foot on the brakes,
And the other foot on the accelerator,
NOTHING and EVERYTHING.

Take a screenshot of your brain in this state,
Go onto one of those apps I mentioned earlier,
Scroll for a bit or watch for a bit.

If those prerequisite states are still there in your mind.

You now know NOTHING and EVERYTHING.

NOTHING and EVERYTHING is absolute hell.

It’s absolute hell not just in some artificially created media landscape,
It’s hell in any scenario, anywhere.

You’re either conserving energy or spending it.
Doing absolutely nothing or putting absolutely everything into the thing you’re currently doing.

Almost everyone is putting NOTHING INTO EVERYTHING and putting EVERYTHING INTO NOTHING.

It’s a genuine hellscape.

I want to reiterate,
My intention is to increase your clarity and reduce your confusion.

Nobody cares that your town is noisy.

Nor do they care if they’re injecting more noise pollution into your town.

Most people hellbent on becoming competent at something via BEING IN YOUR TOWN are going to contribute to…being in your town, and that means injecting noise.

It’s not their fault, it’s not your fault, it’s no one’s fault…that I know of.

I only write in ways that give me clarity.

Until now, I haven’t asked the question, why?

Why are things the way they are.
Why is everyone’s town so loud? 

I’ll write or talk about this at some other point.

But until then,
Listen out for the noise.