New Year’s Memoir – 2024 Edition
Reflections
And that’s all folks. 2023 was especially jam-packed with goodies, some good formal ethics work, and graduating from my Ph.D. program.
Briefly, how’d I do in my New Year resolutions? I totally dropped off asking myself these questions about taking action in line with my best thinking and feeling. Overall, daily actions earlier in the day seem much, much easier for me than one’s to do around bedtime. I think I did a reasonable job of living in line with my three themes, however 😊.
Socially, I noticed myself reaching some tipping point of prioritizing deeper connections with people over further expansion. Of course, taking notes and learning 50+ names in a few weeks of integrating with a new community, one rapidly runs into the problem of hardly having time to say hi and ask how everyone one knows is doing. I am ready to graduate the phase of social growth I’ve embarked on since around The Year of the Free Ass, picking up steam gradually before then.
What’s next is a good question.
I did the “What I really wish (to experience) is . . .” exercise from Everything is Figureoutable twice last year. One fills a page with completions of this sentence each day for a week and analyses the results at the end. I had eight top repeaters. Some forms of deeper, collaborative, life-supportive social tribes and communities were a prominent feature. Networking is delightful: introducing two people who get along and can enjoy mutual benefits! Going beyond one-on-one friendships to explore curious ideas to advancing creative endeavors together and supporting each other’s increasingly paradisiacal life ecosystems.
Also, one-on-one relationships have something special to them. Sometimes triads can work where the three dyads don’t work so well, so strong dyadic bonds aren’t universal building blocks.
Romantically, I seem ready to enjoy being “settled down” in the sense of opening up space for being with super highly-aligned full-on, full-stack romantic and sexual life partner(s). Dating with this wish in mind is interesting compared with dating from a place of being «generally open to mutually enriching experiences»; one becomes much more discerning.
On the work front, the idea to apply my know-how and skills to help make a zero-to-one difference. Some of my research has already been of this nature: other people simply aren’t doing it and there is a benefit to it being done.
I’d like to start explicitly sketching and feeling out plans for Pro-Eutopia. Maybe I should hand out surveys to frens asking which aspects of their life are already paradisiacal, which they are so over-abundant in they can share, and where they could use improvement. This hearkens back to the Web of Needs and Offer Network ideas related to my Master’s thesis project: the world could benefit from an infrastructure of tabulating and browsing needs and desires. One that goes beyond money (yet could incorporate money). Let’s get started organically growing protopia from the ground up in a grassroots manner, to ever grander eutopias and beyond ~ 🚀.
Somehow I’d like to find ways to integrate my ravepuppy side with the cybernetic AGI side in a synergetic, harmonious manner. Ideas are welcome :- D.
I’ve taken to some inner-state goals, too. I’m currently exploring the following to, sinking into them as I note drifting out:
- 🌷: Universal Love, Universal Intelligence, and Infinite Patience. A state that is ever-attentive to minutiae and overflowing with motivated universal love and patience.
- 🌻: Infinite enthusiastic energy.
Some of my focuses now seem to line up with “living as if in proeutopia already” and some line up with “co-creating proeutopia”, so that’s my current demarcation.
A few action themes coalesced: boundaries, making life one’s own, trust, relaxation, inner wisdom, reaching out, exploring, and experimenting.
There are no particular resolutions this year.
I’m proceeding with the Formal Ethics Seed Ontology (Wiki) and figuring out the next steps toward benevolent co-existence with up-and-coming machinekind 💞.