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because so much of life is multiplayer, it’s extremely worthwhile to develop good models of how to interface with other people’s models, and to understand how models change, conflict, collaborate and so on (there’s an API joke in here somewhere but I still don’t understand APIs)
once you get good at collaborating, other people can help you with basically everything. This can feel like cheating, but I think that’s because school indoctrinated us to atomize ourselves into single-player entities in competition with everyone else https://t.co/Upsqzmjgu1
why go alone? anyway you’re never truly alone, not even inside your own head https://t.co/0WaIUGS0SD
When Jason was alone out at sea for months on end, his self unbundled into multiple personalities. "It seemed completely sane". This is consistent with other things I've read about people in ultra-solitude. The coherent self is constructed for interfacing with others https://t.co/kpRLk1Aq6V
circling back to the start, for emphasis: it’s worth learning to collaborate well with others (1), because this can translate directly to collaborating well with your internally conflicted sub-selves, as well as your past and future selves (2). (2) → (1), too
galaxy-brain: there are no others https://t.co/7QSqHOmxo0
