In a chat with ChatGPT this morning, something monumental dawned on me.
What ChatGPT revealed in the midst of our conversation was recommending that I use categories to define the core, broader, overarching theme of my posts but then to add tags that highlight the specific things talked about within each post.
This reminded of something I was thinking about yesterday with regards to the categorization of some of my older posts in the early 2000s. What I realized is that I often got stuck between what to categorize these posts because they talked about so many different things at once (i.e. community, culture, the web, and more).
But what I realized was that these different talking points were just the specific things that encapsulated an overarching whole of how Work Wasn’t Working or how The Future of Work was beginning to emerge by people playing and experimenting with newer ideas and concepts (that were an integration of culture, communities, and the web).
So a post that before I struggled to categorize as either Work Isn’t Work, Community, Culture, Web, or all of the above, actually was just a post on the category of Work Isn’t Working but with the following tags of Community, Culture, and Web.
Do you see why I was so confused before?
It’s because I was seeing many different things as all the same thing, instead of realizing that these things had different dimensions or layers to them.
So my perception changed and suddenly things didn’t seem as overwhelming as before, since I was able to package the seeming complexity of things in a simpler way.
This in a nutshell is a micro example of how creative transformations affect a person’s perception and allow them to level up their vertical development. Of course, this is just a small example, whereas moving through stages of development is a more massive change that transforms your entire perception of life as a whole, rather than just a small aspect of it.