Know Ideas Media - MASSIVE UPDATE!!!

Hi Everyone! It's been a little while since I was last posting videos and writing video descriptions! (the last 5 videos I did were all edited and scheduled ahead of time, so it's been like 5 weeks since I've even touched KZbin!)
And, what a 5 weeks it's been! Holy Smokes...
SO: Things are going REALLY FREAKIN' WELL here at Know Ideas Media:
-We've figured out how to generate enough revenue to get by! (YAAAAAAAY!)
-We've figured out how to leverage ALL THESE VIDEOS I've created!
-I'm getting more speaking engagements! Including one coming up in September where I'll be speaking in Germany to a bunch of PhD students!
-We're working on ways of bringing our online work into the real world. Social media is alright, but you don't get the benefits without wading through a bunch of BS. I think doing this work IRL will help cut down on the trolls, and the BS. (I'm A LOT harder to argue with in person... I'm cute, and disarming, and I've usually got a joint kicking around somewhere...)
-I'll be doing a few less videos over the summer. I have to actually go film some new and exciting stuff, and I've got to spend my time making some sales happen. All good though!
-Ummm.... this is a weird one... Might be integrating into the management team of a music festival? Like, a good hard ol' fashion EDM Rave... that I'm going to bring farmers to. Farming meets Raving... That's a thing I'm doing.
Yea! All good stuff people! Stick around and stay tuned! It's all up from here! :)

[@jonathanjarry]

What you describe at the end, I know exactly what you mean, about people having arguments on social media. I see a lot of "performative skepticism" online, which can be post-hoc rationalized as "trying to sway the lurkers" but which, I suspect, is more about showing your creds, feeling like winning, and rallying your own troops. I don't know how convincing this approach is, which is why I rarely go down that rabbit hole. It feels like a) a waste of time and b) an approach that easily backfires.

[@Parapraxis1980]

It's soo easy to ague on Twitter too, too easy tbh

[@KNOWIDEASMEDIA]

Bingo. I used to think not blocking people was a virtue. In reality that just enables this whole mechanism... When we encounter people who's minds we aren't going to change, it's a waste of time to engage. We forget that we have the agency to simply not engage... and deleting a post or blocking a person is not admitting defeat, it's winning the battle by not engaging. Great Chinese proverbs for this idea: - How does the river achieve kingship over all the streams and gullies? By being lower. - A ship with a half furled sail will never snap it's mast.

[@mikemcdonald5506]

Good luck with your endives

[@FutureOfAg]

We will still be watching! Really appreciate the authenticity here.

[@Parapraxis1980]

I think I know that Twitter thread! I bailed on it a while ago after dipping my toes in haha