I like this image I took from the hotel in Lisbon the other week, as I think it is one of those "multipurpose" shots that can be used for various things, especially when it comes to talking about taps, drips and perhaps them closing.
No, if you are wondering, I didn't post the same image twice, I reedited it because I noticed something that was annoying me with the second image.
See it?
It was painfully obvious to me once I put it on the bigger screen (edited on the phone) and once seen, it couldn't be unseen, so it was back to Lightroom to make the change. I do this kind of thing a lot, though I rarely tell people what goes on behind the scenes in regards to images, because they are not the main drawcard of my posts - if there is a drawcard at all.
For me at least, content is important, but it is not the most important thing in regards to what makes a good post or the like. The most important thing is the impact a post makes and what affect it has on the audience. This is more than just getting a laugh from a meme, or getting given a lot of "good" information, because if there isn't engagement with the post, it is largely useless. And even the engagement is more than comments or votes, it is about whether the audience does something as a result of consuming.
How much is a laugh worth?
No idea.
But less than what some people seem to believe, because no matter how much you laugh, it isn't going to put bread on the table. Sure, if you make other people laugh enough, they might be willing to pay you for it as entertainment, but in order to pay, they are going to have to earn something elsewhere. For most of us, we need some kind of tradeable skill or service in order to earn and despite what we might believe about ourselves, most of us aren't funny enough, so we have to have something else.
How good are you at sports?
Probably, not good enough. But, having a hobby can definitely be leveraged, which is one of the great things about Hive and for me, photography is a hobby that supports my content. However, I am not a photographer by trade and my expertise are severely lacking if I ever tried to monetize it in a field of professionals, but this doesn't stop me combining hobby with expertise.
See the connection?
It is possible to be a professional without being an expert, and it is possible to be an expert without being a professional, but if you don't have experience, it is impossible to be an expert and it is very unlikely anyone is going to pay you to be a professional.
On the internet, it is pretty easy to feign expertise by stealing the experiences of others and rehashing it as if it is your own. It is more than just plagiarism, it is a complete misrepresentation and if people are influenced by the content, it can have some pretty dire consequences for them.
As an easy example, a lot of the truth-seeker content is coming from people who have no more direct experience with a topic than Google does. And in fact, likely less, because they will filter what they consume to fit their world view. It is the same with the people who write posts about the top 5 ways to make money, or methods to lose weight, or beat depression. For most of them, they have next to zero actual experience and most likely in real life, are nothing like what they purport to be on the internet.
Google professionals?
I wonder if there was a way to calculate the amount of information put on the internet and how much is actually coming from people with relevant experience and expertise, what would the ratio be? 10:1? 100:1? How much is just regurgitated information coming from others?
Perhaps this is why so many people don't actually give personal stories, because it would show that they are not nearly the image of what they have presented. It is like those influencers who take glamorous photos, leaning on someone else's Lamborghini. It is a lie, is it not?
And as said, it is the impact that really matters, but what if the decisions that people are making are based on lies? Isn't it the same as "unrealistic body image" being created by people who photoshop all of their images, like the Kardashians? How is that healthy?
I have always found people lying about themselves interesting, because it must mean (unless highly narcissistic) that they live in a constant conflict between what they know and what they portray. This might come with some kind of imposter complex and fear of being caught, but more than that, it must make them feel pretty bad, even if they try to justify it, creating excuses as to why it is okay. Like,
I need the money.
life has become far more complex than it was in the past and the way information has been treated has created a system similar to the economy itself. Back in the day for instance, gold was gold, it was worth what it was worth and even when the dollar was used, it was tied to held gold, making it more "real". Now, it just keeps get printed, pushed into circulation so that there is informational inflation, and value deflation, since scarcity of information is no longer a thing.
Back in the day, a blacksmith would have to create something that could be judged, as did a painter. But now, expertise no longer require "proof" whether what someone knows is a skill, or stolen from others. There is a disconnection from reality and the content regurgitators themselves have lost touch, meaning that they tend to believe that what they know has value, even though they don't actually "know" it at all, since they have no direct experience or developed skill, they are just cutting and pasting from others, over and over again.
While this is possible now, I believe that in the future there is going to be more checks and balances in place to ensure informational integrity, including the source of the information. Through blockchain verification and webs of trust for example, it would be possible for cross-referencing of information across multiple points to be able to give an accurate confidence score as to whether what is being said is valid or not, with one of the factors being who said it.
What happens to the influencers?
I suspect the tap is closing, because what constitutes an influencer now is going to change, because skill is going to be important again. When there is information verification and payments going to those who actually create the content, not regurgitate the content, expertise will be the new gold. Digital currencies the medium of exchange.
From the comfort of your own home.
What are you learning to trade?
Taraz
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Fuck you and your ability to take an image of literally anything and make it look good.
One can only hope.
I'm going to give it a crack in the photography lovers community though, it's @castleberry's fault.
Chat on the weekend.
@castleberry is an ass like that...
Haha, it's been said...but is it verified?
Sounds bangin! Y'all should make it a brotherly competition to see who can fail the best at taking a bad photo!
Lol...now there's a challenge if ever I heard one.
I was watching a movie with The Rock in it only the other day, Skyscraper, and was thinking, hmm, that reminds me of someone. Now I know who.
Damn son!
Lol.
There is always first mover advantage, and “lottery”. Either you have it already or you don’t.
If you have it before everyone else you capture the most value, thereafter due to continued increase in supply the incremental value gets diminished.
Like learning something for the purpose of making money when it’s proven to make money, won’t make you money. If this makes sense. 😉
Pursue whatever interest you and lottery or luck will decide if it’s your turn, if ever.
Yes, it makes sense and I agree. This is the problem with most people investing, they don't have a first-mover mindset, but they have the expectations that they will get above average returns, while doing what the average do. Technically, they get below average, because the few at the top skew the data.
You made me remember something one of my teachers said, depending on your experience, you can be a beginner (1 hour of practice), novice-average (100 hours) expert(1000 hours), or expert (more than 1000 hours of experience). There is mastery at 10.000 hours, but above that, there is one more step, called virtuosity, where the skilled people who put the time and the work before everything else become a master above all masters. The true 1%. Funny enough, by his words, until we reach adulthood, we have enough time to master 2 skills, or become experts in 8 skills. And many of us are barely becoming experts in one single skill by the time we are 18. Sad!
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EXPERT! 😀
Eh eh then I can boast this level too!
I just started playing 2023, not bad I'd say 😉
Football manager is one of my greatest passions, every year in Matale my wife gives me the new version 🎉🎊🎉🎊
I have about 1800 hours in Apex Legends and about 2000 hours in COD, all starting from 2019 to now. Covid really gave me a ton of free time to grind. 😂 Now the overall FPS experience is probably getting close to 5000 hours I guess, means I'm halfway in the journey of becoming a master eh?
Yes sir!
I'd forgotten some of us were getting paid to sit at home and game, nice!
I remember students attending online classes on one screen and then playing games or watching videos on the other screen haha. Crazy times, a crazy life we lived back then. I was almost on the brink of insanity from staying indoors for that long.
EXPERT x2 haha :D
You crazy! 🤣
:D :D
Are you? :)
Actually no. The versions are quite different and so far I'm struggling to win anything major or 2022.
My home town though are multiple champions of Europe on the 2012 edition 😁
The difference is between "we can" and "we should". If your childhood is focused on mastering two skills you might miss out on other beautiful things.
This is sad tho, yeah...
I wonder what brings greater well being, lack of skill or being very good at a few things?
Well, having 0 skills is just freaking bad for ya.
The 10,000 hour thing is a bit of a myth, but I get your point. I also question what life might be like if instead of doing what we do at school early on now, we learn how to learn instead, then start learning the content. Having good process in place before learning bad habits, means being able to learn the right thing from the get-go. It is the "perfect practice makes perfect" approach, rather than random practice.
I am definitely far from skilled in so many things, after a misspent childhood, teen years, young adulthood, adulthood... :D
Some stuff is not necessarily seen at work as you can get experts in chess, swimming, running, lego building, and so on. Still aligned with a good childhood. I never felt more proud than when I beat my that on one of our weekly/monthly games of chess.
Yes, this is the case. I also think that learning the "right things" lead to more learning. There are skills learned from chess for example, that can aid other aspects of life. I question how much core skill kids miss when they spend all their time on phones. Spatial awareness? predictive skill? The ability to visualize? What is affected and what are the ramifications later in life?
My idea for my kids is to learn a faster reading course - this will save hours if not days of your life, and then fast learning techniques. To start with it.
Credentialism is insidious. Its license for those with box-ticking skills and a willingness to endure tedium to silence those with actual nose-to-the-grindstone experience.
Bureaucracy is for those who fear meritocracy.
In a world where information has the most value, very few will be able to compete on merit. However, at the practical level of skill, it will be apparent as to who has it, and who does not. The credentials are the proof in the pudding.
Is it this?
Yes!!
Bloody annoying! :D
Man you are sharp @abh12345.
Maybe you can come up with a weekly "spot the difference" game and whoever gets it right first gets an upvote. I am so not gonna win it at this rate :D
I sometimes obsess about images like that. But then again, sometimes I don't. Eh...just depends on my mood I guess.
In many ways, hasn't this always been a problem of professional magazine writers? They go and research a topic (sometimes well, many times not so well) and then write a piece for the magazine about that topic. They are less than an amateur in the topic they are writing about usually, but they more or less pass it off.
I know, the internet makes it worse. With Google and now ChatGPT, we can all be good or bad magazine writers.
I have read and heard that many university professors often write papers for trade magazines with little reference material—then they get their grad students to go out and find sources to back up what they wrote. Pretending to have knowledge we don't happens at all levels.
I kind of don't mind if someone uses what I write. Such as when I post one of my haiku translations here on Hive; I'm ok if someone uses it elsewhere. That is how human knowledge spreads, after all. But then again, it annoys me when people pretend my things were made my them. That happens more often in photography and is one reason why I have started to watermark the photos I post online (well usually; I forgot in my post today). I've had to send more than a few angry emails to people who have tried to claim my photos as theirs over the years.
Anyway, I'm kind of dancing over what you wrote. Good food for thought.
Anything that makes the influencer go away, I'm good with!
Back in the day, a decent article would take months to write - now "journalists" propagate stories of celebrities, because only clicks matter, not impact.
It isn't about the borrowing of content or ideas, it is the passing of as expert/ skill when there is no experience at all. Watching a medical drama doesn't make a person a surgeon.
I used to watermark, but haven't for ages!! How I see it is, I have the originals and all the exif data to back it up.
What happened to the influencers who had pull because they offered the world something valuable?
When I think "influencers" I can only think the worst examples, such as from Instagram and Youtube. But you're right, there are probably good influencers too. I would tend to think the good ones will have the ability to roll with whatever it changes to in the future, whereas the bad ones will not have that ability and will disappear.
To achieve success there is a common denominator that is the time of dedication to become an expert, the time in what? and how to invest it? to learn to be an expert in something, and to that, I add time, talent, and desire to go for more Mr Taraz.
I am currently working on the curriculum redesign of a new subject for the graduate school where I work, besides the knowledge I have (experience) I am dedicating and investing time to become (an expert in that curriculum design) and become very good at what I do with technology for higher education... in this year and that is what I am doing at night at home.
Good luck with the curriculum design - good programming is an artform!
Thank you so much, Mr Taraz
Besides the entire post, took me a good 10 minutes to find the reflection of the light on the left, was like wth cant be that, that's not relevant, then I cheat and read the comments 😅, I think that even those who are experts more than often doesn't call themselves experts, they have enough experience to know they could be wrong too sometimes, ppl use the word expert as a holy grail level, cant see myself calling me expert , thx for sharing 😁✌️
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
I would like every person to find something interesting for themselves on Hive. But the main thing is that he learns to understand decentralized finance and learns to invest wisely here. I want there to be many consumers of information, not writers.
Writing is a good way to develop understanding, but regurgitating what others have done is not. The learning takes practical application, not just the collection of information. It is like your trades the other day - knowing what to trade and actually trading are two different things, with a lot of missing lessons on the former.
The only difference I can see is the light reflection on the left hand side. Was that it? It is quite possible that there will be more checks and balances in the future to determine that information is legitimate, but I also think a byproduct of that is going to be more people taking nothing at face value and questioning every single piece of information they stumble upon.
Yep. Once I added the image, it stood out like proverbial dog balls and I had to get rid of it. It upset the whole balance of the image :D
This happens now, but without any evidence to back it up. A web of trust system could give it a robust confidence score, that is decentralized and being pulled from so many points it is almost impossible to fake. Would be interesting.
Yeah, for sure. Some of this AI stuff really has me concerned. Most specifically deep fakes. I understand what you are saying about the photo. It didn't bug me but I have been in similar positions!
I would rather have multi skills than just one skill as an allrounder can get you much further in life. being able to make people smile is an added bonus as it puts people at ease. Online that is a lot harder to achieve as why I believe an all round life skill of being able to deal and communicate with people outweighs all the others.
Being an allrounder is a skill in itself. Not many people are able to do it successfully. I still think it is good to have some specialization though that gives an edge in some fields.
Agreed. Good post brings value to others, no matter in what form. Information, reflection, laughter, guidance, etc.
Actually I was, well, afraid of sharing personal stories before, because of judgement without realizing that was just stupid. But I guess I can see your point. Some people pretend to fit in, while some do it maliciously. Both of this things are bad in my opinion. Former is bad for the person doing it and latter for the potential victims.
Nice read, you laid out some interesting thoughts.
I get the scared of sharing personal, or "too" personal. But, a lot of people don't actually share anything of themselves at all, including their skills. Instead, all they do is rehash others. There can be a fear component as part of the reason for some or even many, but I also think there is a skill component too, where they don't actually have anything of their own that is tradeable.
actually i think will be more info sellers than before, because internet base is growing and more and more people coming here and its easy money to sell how to earn money/weight loss. Checks in future can be , BUT there will be always more unverified shit around for sure and people will bait it, But maybe will be more censorship in internet , because right now no regulations at all, freedom:D
So experts and professionals will be still not in good terms, at least in 2-5 years i think.
I am not sure there will always be more shit, because once there is a web of trust system that could verify with some confidence, the shit no longer gets monetized, no longer clogs feeds. It will be interesting to see where it leads.
I never thought about information in that way. Maybe that is the reason I left Facebook and try to stay away from politics because it is all he said she said bs. I whole heartedly believe in taking what works and discarding what doesn't but at the same time it HAS to actually work. If there is conflicting information then I stay away from it.
Everything has conflicting information I guess, but with some level of confidence, we should then be able to predict and choose our behaviors. For example, being obese doesn't necessarily mean a lower quality of life - but there is a high correlation.
One of my hobbies is travelling and it does not only support content, but also composes most of my posts on HIVE. I wish I had met HIVE earlier so that I could have posted my previous travelling and experiences.
I think it is great to be able to combine a hobby and an outlet to explore it. It gives purpose to what already has meaning.
You have stated clearly, it's not just about making post what the impact. Because money will only response to value
I think it's tough to really figure out everything and I tend to just go with whatever is happening. If I need something for my job, I'll learn it. I think there are a lot of people just going along with the flow and I think we are being overloaded due to all the information available.
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I am glad that gaming supports my content. I am really lucky. I get to enjoy games and then I even get paid for playing them.
You are very good in photography