📘 About EntryLog
What is EntryLog?
This is a microblog platform with emphasis is on anything creative you engage with that challenges your understanding. The purpose is to use this platform to document your insights in a space that encourages thinking, learning, reflection and self-improvement.
People strive for likes and recognition, and while such may be achieved, the effect of such is absolutely nothing of value. This space holds that self-improvement, and the means of it, are the most important, and the former mentioned activity is a distraction from that. While other platforms encourage the former, this platform is a space for the latter. It assumes self-driven people who strictly and humbly cares more about their own improvement.
Why was EntryLog created?
Just as much as i felt the need to document my insights in the format of microblogging, I once again felt demotivated as I considered alternatives.
EntryLog was created out of a desire for a more meaningful alternative to modern social media. I created this as an alternative to other popular platforms, because I do not give a thing about likes, followers, and people’s insatiable, simplistic need for attention at the cost of intelligence and honest critical thinking.EntryLog was because I need the tool myself, and thus, this project is satisfying in at least fulfilling that purpose, beyond any other possibly greater aspirations.
EntryLog compared to alternatives
In fact, while other platforms have some positive aspects, I think — and this is my recurring experience — that the typical platforms stale intelligence and critical thinking, and create a frustration and thereby compel affective and reactionary behaviour. Even if you do not care about the fact that attention is the currency, and most other members pretend it isn’t, consciously or not, while trying to milk your attention, and no matter how genuine you are and try to be, your most important time and attention will sooner or later be pulled towards the nonsense people create to draw your attention. And if you manage to resist, you will waste your time in the continuous effort of having to resist all the pretentious nonsense that is created to draw your attention. This is not a platform for that. This is a platform for you to focus on your own insights, and to reflect on them, and to use them as a tool for your own progress.
How to approach EntryLog
You should focus on doing something, rather than, as on other platforms, being something. Focus on doing something challenging and use this platform as a tool for reflection on your progress and learning. Remember that it is your insights that matter, and they should matter to you. Others’ comments can be useful to help reflect and see from other perspectives, but others’ input shouldn’t be much of a concern. You should test your insights against the only supreme judge, which is reality. Reflect on and evaluate the actual result of your approach, mentality, attitudes, beliefs, assumptions. Then think deeply about how to progress in your chosen field, and for that, EntryLog should be a great tool.
Personally I am interested in technology and try to advance my skills in abstraction-oriented thinking such as how to design computer systems, but a skill of thinking that also seeks to find the even more abstract principles that are able to transcend and incorporate other domains such as philosophy, psychology, and the beingness of beinghood.
More of values
Your becoming is more important than your being. When you get that right, you can, for sure, in a healthy way engage with the content of other people, because you do it with the humble attitude of gaining substance for reflection on your own approach in what matters to you, rather than trying to put yourself out there as someone who is something that would matter to others. What I mean is that trying to be something in the eyes of others is a misguided aspiration that betrays your most important potential to actually do something out of your own interest that is not contingent on others’ judgment and opinion, and thereby connect with the real motivation and interests of your own — not what others want you to be in order to for them to return a few moments of attention.
Getting this right, and you find yourself to be what is called “a driven person”, assertive and decisive. This site, thus, as you come to see, is to steer all and everything in that powerful direction of self-assertion and humble self-interest with the specific aspiration of self-improvement.
In transparent reflection
This site does not try to convince by advanced cutting-edge features. It is rather the concept and the fine-tuning that matters in making it a practical tool. This site is at this stage a quick mockup for my own use. In making the site,
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