Are we DDoS-ing ourselves?
I am at the train station awaiting my train to Helsinki and I am early. Not by choice, it was the only bus I could catch into the city that would get me here before the train.
I am not a morning person but at least I am doing better than the guy sitting near me who is nodding off to sleep on a bench. However, I have the sneaking suspicion he has been up all night - and it wasn't working.
I don't mind the morning travel however, it is just that it happens to be in the morning. It would be much nice if it was around midday.
One of the things I like about writing on Steem is that it doesn't matter too much when the writing is done, bit I have noticed that the topic and style I might use vary a lot. When I am out and about (which is normally during the day), the tone is more conversational, such as this. At home however, I have the space for different kinds of thinking.
A little experiment you could try is that the next time you are walking down the road in a bad mood, lift your head. Often when reflecting on the past we look downward at the ground but when we lift out head, we look forward and the inclusion of more visual data can break our train of thought and pull us from the dwell.
In fact, try to take note of where you look when thinking about different things as often to access memories or collect thoughts, we have the tendency to look in certain directions. My boss looks past and over my left shoulder when collecting her phrasing, a friend of mine looks at my shoulder (I am guessing that is because she is drawn to the chip on it), some people close their eyes to give themselves more processing power by closing out visual stimuli.
Try remembering what your childhood room looked like, divide 227 by 13 or make up a story and notice what your eyes do. The last one is part of the reason many don't trust people who don't make enough eye contact. Lies are just made up stories where the imagination creates the view and that requires mental energy and most will look up and to one side when creating new thoughts.
I don't know much about these things from a technical perspective but, I do observe these things in myself and in others and through my own trial and error tests, there is something to it.
In another life (one where I was much smarter), I think I would have enjoyed a field like behavioural economics or something similar. It is why I like interaction on Steem so much too as not only are there the exhibited behaviours, there is also the transactional evidence that can be used as s cross-reference to support or refute.
At some point, the Blockchain data is going to be pulled apart and reordered to give a very interesting view of human nature, perhaps one that has not been seen before, at least with such granularity. I wonder what it will tell about us?
I wonder what it will tell across time also when factoring in the stages of onboarding, the early adopters, the followers, the bandwagoners to come. Will the habits of the early crypto maximisers who come from a world of wallet growth alone break way for the mass onboarding of people who are looking for a more social experience? Will the communities develop into globally inclusive groups or will they continue to fracture across unchosen divisional lines?
It is hard to say and while some like to predict (me included), this is the first time that something of this nature has actually been possible. Yes, ledgers have been around forever but the ability to record and track with such precision and at such scale across the world has never been available.
Not only that, this kind of processing power has never been owned and operated by the people at this kind of level. 
Perhaps it just depends on the direction we look.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
(posted from phone on train)