meta profiles
the tools we use to understand ourselves are limited in costly ways. buying a domain with your name (e.g. danilo.com) and linking it to a google doc is as good as it gets for personal development. if you buy into the idea of narrative restructuring, there is no more anchorable and flexible way to understand your story, reference your story, and change who you are. i wrote a technical article explaining this idea.
in this piece, i introduce the concept of a ”meta profile,” a data structure that is (a) both a more accurate holistic representation of self than traditional data structures (b) integrates with existing data structures (e.g. personal development worksheets). i start this by defining data structures in the context of initial conditions. i then discuss general data structures that model human beings and critique them based on the initial conditions they establish. i describe the meta profile as a solution and describe core features of the meta profile. i examine how we can leverage the anchoring benefits of a web domain with the editability of google docs to allow for an evolving, non-linear understanding of identity, offering a more nuanced and flexible way for self-definition. i leverage ideas of narrative restructuring and introduce a novel approach to self-relational data, exploring how we define ourselves through conceptual relationships. i conclude by sketching out how the meta profile enables ’self-refactoring.’
the tools we use to understand ourselves are limited in costly ways. buying a domain with your name (e.g. danilo.com) and linking it to a google doc is as good as it gets for personal development. if you buy into the idea of narrative restructuring, there is no more anchorable and flexible way to understand your story, reference your story, and change who you are. i wrote a technical article explaining this idea.
in this piece, i introduce the concept of a ”meta profile,” a data structure that is (a) both a more accurate holistic representation of self than traditional data structures (b) integrates with existing data structures (e.g. personal development worksheets). i start this by defining data structures in the context of initial conditions. i then discuss general data structures that model human beings and critique them based on the initial conditions they establish. i describe the meta profile as a solution and describe core features of the meta profile. i examine how we can leverage the anchoring benefits of a web domain with the editability of google docs to allow for an evolving, non-linear understanding of identity, offering a more nuanced and flexible way for self-definition. i leverage ideas of narrative restructuring and introduce a novel approach to self-relational data, exploring how we define ourselves through conceptual relationships. i conclude by sketching out how the meta profile enables ’self-refactoring.’
the tools we use to understand ourselves are limited in costly ways. buying a domain with your name (e.g. danilo.com) and linking it to a google doc is as good as it gets for personal development. if you buy into the idea of narrative restructuring, there is no more anchorable and flexible way to understand your story, reference your story, and change who you are. i wrote a technical article explaining this idea.
in this piece, i introduce the concept of a ”meta profile,” a data structure that is (a) both a more accurate holistic representation of self than traditional data structures (b) integrates with existing data structures (e.g. personal development worksheets). i start this by defining data structures in the context of initial conditions. i then discuss general data structures that model human beings and critique them based on the initial conditions they establish. i describe the meta profile as a solution and describe core features of the meta profile. i examine how we can leverage the anchoring benefits of a web domain with the editability of google docs to allow for an evolving, non-linear understanding of identity, offering a more nuanced and flexible way for self-definition. i leverage ideas of narrative restructuring and introduce a novel approach to self-relational data, exploring how we define ourselves through conceptual relationships. i conclude by sketching out how the meta profile enables ’self-refactoring.’