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I hope you don’t take offense, but I would imagine some people are turned off by your self-promotion, the length of your post, and a tone that could be interpreted as pompous.


Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.


Can I ask what your background is and how old are you?

You seem actually quite genuine and to have good faith-in-discussion, and if that is correct I really implore you to value that about yourself. They are good and rare qualities that the world needs more of.

Also, I hope you do not take offense to this, but I can't help but recommend that if you haven't already, to see a professional about potential social disorders. Your comments consistently read with a naievity of social skills. I'm sorry and I dislike to compartmentalize anyone has disordered, but I think it could possibly help. I could also be completely wrong: after all, all I know of you is a few internet comments.


I’m 26 (or 27 I can’t remember) and I’m just a guy trying to do a bunch of good in a digital age that seems to care more and more about short term benefits and appeasing low attention spans than using technology to better humanity.

I’m a shitty Android (now attempting web / react / react native to build knophy.com) developer that’s been fired from every job I’ve had (besides being a soccer referee in high school) and I like to think outside the box. I don’t like being like everyone else. I don’t take offense very easily, and I don’t have a very easy time finding people to discuss these deep ideas with.

I do my best, and have actually found a couple from this very thread, but I don’t think the current landscape of the Internet is set up to value the kinds of contributions I’d like to bring. I’m designing knophy.com to hopefully help fix my personal problem.

Here’s some reading on that system if you’re interested and would like to help spread the idea:

overview: https://medium.com/@michaellustig/knophy-or-how-were-going-t...

benefits off use: https://medium.com/@michaellustig/step-by-step-explanation-o...




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