mini-essays https://coda.io/d/Blog-Posts_dYsYg7d1EIu/The-Silo-Culture_sudVE#_luggD Social infrastructure idea of space for people to mingle and bump into each other while doing their normal routine. Infrastructure designed around encouraging intermingling and building a healthy and interconnected public ^4gjU2uloY
- Currently we live in silos of connection and relationship. We talk to the same people who we go to school with, work with, and mingle with. Social stigma stops us from going outside of these designated zones lest we be shamed into negation. Certain social groups are not supposed to mix because there are standards to follow and rules to obey. Just like there are certain bars for education for who can be a partner, there are certain bars for who can be a friend, who can be someone that you’re allowed to care about
- just like living in silos of data data is scattered and stuck in silos
- ideas modern life is about being individually empowered and free and entrepreneurs and self-empowering and confident and self-love but its a lot of focus on the self which leads to us being isolated and lonely and always comparing to others because how can we love ourselves without taking note from all our idols and our peers that post the very best images of themselves in every crevice of our digital experiences
- Can we be forced to intermingle just like our data is forced to enable interoperability?
- questions how can humans enable interoperability?
- explore this more [[interval:1.0]] [[factor:1.80]] 2021-05-07 People would get off the train and walk, and walking (without fear of traffic death) would change the urban landscape, away from the shopping plaza, the parking lot, the gas station, and the roadside sign to townhouses, cafés, bookstores, the kind of places that encouraged pedestrians to linger, and their presence would spur other businesses to cluster, and before long there would be density—Jane Jacobs’s heaven. Strangers would meet in nontraumatic accidental encounters and exchange ideas. (Location 5101) ^D6SoHNh-P