thus, my internet porn star name is Mark Dominion. See! it works.

I’ll see what we can do about the skills inventory. I think we talked about something similar at one point, as a more general website idea.

Here is another skills inventory! are two more!

http://inmostlight.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-skills-inventory.html
http://naturalibus.blogspot.com/2007/09/skills-bank.html

http://freerangeorganichuman2.blogspot.com/2007/09/skillz.html

These are skills i forgot I had.

I find good wierd videos all of the time.

These concepts would benefit from your reading and dissemination:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007...ackup-among-shared-value-communities/

Thanks!

I’d be interested in something that helped in clearly announce and locate skills. Community spaces for listing and reading. Personal networking norms and procedures. Location of existing taxonomies, making taxonomies, or making tools for making taxonomies, and search tools. Project specifications and requests.

I think at Saturday House, there is sympathy for the idea of collecting our skills together, probably as an addition to the participants page.

I have been advocating project sheets in paper; And then there’s the Open Projects Development wiki.

“only develop skill in things that you enjoy doing.”

It should be as simple as that. Let’s make it be as simple as that. Thanks Ran! I’m trying to decipher whether you’re our Thoreau or our Emerson or somebody else entirely. You are very much “you” which is awesome and inspiring. You brought me through to some much clearer and more fulfilled thinking through the work you’ve shared with people online.

May I suggest putting “skills wanted” on the page, as well? To follow with the “only list skills you love,” thing — perhaps only put those skills that you really really really wish, from the bottom of your heart– that you could have? (I know that “drawing skills” is going on mine..!)

I really like that as a way of focusing intention and when publicly shared it opens up communication and encouragement from others in the community for you to actualize your goals.

This is pretty close in some ways to these ideas:

http://www.43things.com/

Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.

That seems totally true, actually! Probably a simple evolutionary matter: don’t get together with somebody who is useless!

Anyway, one of the things I love about this “skills inventory” concept is that it gets you to stop thinking sollipsistically (a problem of mine in the past) about “what I do know a lot about?” and replaces it with a “of what use am I to other people?” That shit is a lot more important and “sustainable” for building a real human life out of.

if you could go back in time and really do it right, or if we lived in a healthier society, the rule would be:
“only develop skill in things that you enjoy doing.”

A friend (Sam Rose) and I started a wiki page we called “Internet Exchange.” The idea was to make a skills share, so that we could help each other out with our projects. So, you can see some (not love-of-my-life, but non-the-less valuable) skills on that page. I was trying to hunt for “low cost” skills, to facilitate exchange.

The benefit from “keeping score,” is that you can break out of the 1:1 requirement, of a real-life trade. “I’m helping you, and only you can help me back,” is something of the problem that currency (of whatever form) solves: “I’m helping you, and that guy over there can help you back.”

That said: I just LOVE the idea of putting the skills, that we love, on our home page, and it solves a lot of nice problems, in the doing.

May I suggest putting “skills wanted” on the page, as well? To follow with the “only list skills you love,” thing — perhaps only put those skills that you really really really wish, from the bottom of your heart– that you could have? (I know that “drawing skills” is going on mine..!)

See also: Declarative Living, and: CommunityWiki:CyberneticEconomy.