User:Tommi/T2 Assessment

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The everlasting and all-encompassing challenge of my (artistic, academic, professional, emotional) life boils down to a perpetual multidimensional tension among different practices, obsessions, principles. Most essentially, every single daily choice poses a threat to my mental health, especially being a curious and enthusiastic person in a world that is full of opportunities but also burning at the same time.

The perfect metaphor to represent this struggle is a scale. Here is where Marina comes into play.

Marina the scale

As I kept thinking about the way to best present my reflections over the first two trimester of XPUB, I was looking for a device to represent a constant, precarious, dynamic equilibrium, or better juggling with many different thoughts crowding my head. I started looking for an old-style scale, also in honor of my grandma’s passion for antiques.

I started telling this to all my classmates. In a quiet Saturday afternoon, during a walk with Lea, she brought me to De Majum, an adorable thrift shop in Delfshaven. Not five minutes since I was inside the shop, I found exactly what I needed.

A photo of a antique red scale in Lea’s hands.

I sent Nonna Gorix this picture, and I called her to ask her the maximum price she would put on this scale. She told me not to pay more than 20€, and that I could negotiate the price down to 15€. Eventually, I managed to buy it for 10€, especially because it did not have any plates. Victory!

I cleaned it and I added some pieces of wood at the bottom to calibrate it, as it was totally off-balance.

A photo of Tommi and their godmother Marina during their confirmation celebration.

The only step left was to find a name for it. I named it Marina as my godmother and former scout chief, as historically she has been my reference point for pondering decisions and finding the right equilibrium, both spiritually or not.

A matter of identity

I consider

Threads

Recurring thematic threads

  • Metaness
  • Knowledge management and interoperability
  • Tension of creativity vs organisation
  • gossip unlocking
  • Metaphors
  • Pirate

XXPUB

XXPUB: Extra XPUB, but also XL XPUB.

  • FediForum
  • Local-First and its meaning in gossip
  • 39C3 federated knowledge
  • ILoveFS
    • Frieda
    • IAE
  • DWeb and DWeb Camp

Learnings and failures

  • I ended up being alone for SI28 event
  • How to deal with being more acquainted with some technical skills with respect to the rest of the class

The tension → The equilibrium

This is a meta-balance: a balance that reflects about balancing itself. The equilibrium is dynamic, not static.

  • collective notes vs listening and participation
  • fast and advanced learning vs collective work
  • technical skills refinement vs social practice
  • processing and learning vs time to work
  • learning, discovering, absorbing vs writing, practicing, making
  • tech that barely works vs tools that are actually useful (and make a difference)
  • thinking vs metathinking
  • writing vs metawriting
  • focusing vs website mingling
  • situatedness vs broadcasting
  • FOMO vs commitment to one thing
  • auto-referenziale vs meta
  • intimate and private vs making things public
  • crafting vs documenting
  • touching many different things (horizontally) vs focusing on a topic and diving very deep (vertically)
  • Listening vs taking notes


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