What are you working on?

jsalvatier

Whpearson recently mentioned that people in some other online communities frequently ask "what are you working on?". I personally love asking and answering this question. I made sure to ask it at the Seattle meetup. However, I don't often see it asked here in the comments, so I will ask it:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

Law 27 Play on people's need to believe to create a cultlike following.

A problem with knowing about such 'laws' is that you'll start perceiving false positives in other people and will hate them for using those techniques against you.

I don't think that I understand everything that you're saying.

you'll start perceiving false positives in other people

This is a valid concern, but I'm not sure how it relates to this:

and will hate them for using those techniques against you.

Regardless of whether you are vulnerable to such techniques, I don't see why hearing arguments for their existence would harm you. (I can see that it would be a waste of time if they turned out to be useless, but from what little I've read of him, it would be a mistake to gamble on the hypothesis that they will be useless by not reading him at all.)

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I don't consider the willful maintenance of false illusions to be sustainable way of securing oneself against disillusionment. I note that if you start hating foks for using those techniques against you then you are probably already ignoring Greene's advice. He consistently advises against taking things personally while also describing just how 'hating people for doing X' is itself a manipulative technique for gaining power.

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