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[2023-09-21 07:19:41 AM] : alex,am at the part where Amy is demonstrating safariing for World View.. Seems to me this part invokes the most subjectiveness in us as we can always read a statement in a post/thread and interpret it to mean something. Whether or not the poster/commenter meant it the way we think they do may have an impact on how we use our notes later. Is there are more "mechanical" way to assess an audience's world view that minimizes 60-70% of interpretation on our side?
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[2023-09-21 08:32:06 AM] : I also had trouble confidently assessing worldview through just reading posts
I found it much easier to understand through watering hole participation, getting in conversations with folks and seeing common themes emerge
In my niche (Remix developers), there's a heavy theme of favouring web standards over proprietary formats, regular javascript instead of compiler magic, and progressive enhancement for browser features rather than custom solutions with JS
I don't think I would have understood any of those properly without getting into a debate or two
[2023-09-21 08:34:25 AM] : Though I'm not involved in the art community at all, I've still seen many many posts just in passing describing their opposition to AI tools generating things in their style
So maybe some worldviews are more visible from the surface
https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1688658654697082883
[2023-09-21 09:17:42 AM] : Ryan my take is that it's certainly possible to misinterpret one statement by one person. but if you read 50 statements from 50 people it's less likely.
[2023-09-21 11:21:19 AM] : excellent notes in here from Jacob Paris and itamar.
[2023-09-21 11:25:00 AM] : Especially the part about patterns! It's also okay to interpret individual statements "wrong" as long as you use the feedback loop of ebombs to learn if your interpretation is resonant.
[2023-09-21 11:26:29 AM] : broadly, you're gathering for resonance and understanding, which allows for quite a bit of incorrectness. Plus...if you share an ebomb that misinterprets something, there's a good chance the feedback you get will help you understand them better, so you still win!
[2023-09-21 11:29:00 AM] : another couple of worldview tips that people often find helpful:
• are they speaking from a world-centering belief, where the opposite could also be reasonably true? if so, good chance you've found a worldview or a part of one.
• try thinking about worldview in context, rather than abstractly. meaning, how could this worldview affect their decisions about what they like/dislike, what they buy, what they share, etc? Jacob's examples above are excellent for seeing this in action. worldview isn't just a "belief" they're a foundational part of how they make decisions, which will ultimately affect what they buy/share, and therefore help you narrow choices for what to create for them.
[2023-09-21 11:32:34 AM] : last thought, worldview is hands down the hardest part of Safari and takes practice, which means it's normal for it to feel weird and uncomfortable at first.
but like much of the rest of the process, doesn't require you getting in perfectly for it to have a HUGE impact on your work. If you even make an attempt to understand based on what you see people saying and doing, you're at minimum inoculating yourself against major mistakes like the person in that AI thread, but likely much more as you start using your safari research to make decisions and create things.
[2023-09-21 11:33:22 AM] : i know that doesn't directly answer your question, but I hope these suggestions reframe your thinking that led to the question in the first place!
[2023-09-22 01:25:43 AM] : Thank you guys... I agree with everyone of you.. Jacob Paris, thanks. I think indeed participating in the discussion will at least provide more insights, especially for those threads/posts where the worldviews of the audience don't shout out loud.. But there are those that provide such loud and clear world views (i.e, DHH's posts about TypeScript).
itamar, true. One thread isn't enough to see any pattern. I think digging the web for more than 5 threads will at least provide an initial suggestion of what my audience believes, in general about a certain topic.
alex yeahhh sir assessing worldviews isn't as straightforward as finding questions, pains, suggestions/recommendations from the audience.