It's an ugly site btw. Not really ready for prime-time. But I
   wanted to literally "collect my thoughts" since I was about 11
   yrs old and made a thing with a roll of calculator paper, a
   piece of wood, a pencil to roll it on and a pencil attached to
   it with a piece of string. That was my first "thought collector"
   and I'm 43 now. So many efforts through the years but this one
   has been the easiest to maintain. I'm just dumping it _all_ in
   and hoping it'll self-organize somehow tongue emoticon Once I
   ran it through a dewey decimal classifier to see what the AI
   thought my thoughts should go in a standard library
   classification system. I learned a lot from that, did a
   statistical analysis.. and figured out what my main focuses seem
   to be that *I didn't know* about. Epistemology. Time. There's a
   quite a few others, that I have ranked according to various
   metrics. I figure the better I know myself from as many angles
   as possible, the better I'll understand humanity. Even if I
   don't understand humanity, doesn't matter. At least I'll get
   _one guy_ figured out, ventually. Me smile emoticon That's
   something smile emoticon == I believe its doable. Here's one of
   the most effective methods I figured out for myself: Find out
   where your assumptions come from. Not just the obvious ones.
   Look at psychological movements that were popular when you were
   young. Was the "be yourself" movement popular? [it was in my
   time] Who started it? What is their philosophy? You start
   pricking beneath the surface of your own thought patterns and
   you start to see a HUGE HISTORY of archetypes behind you.
   Unexpected archetypes. People you never even NOTICED before.
   More and more you start seeing how you're put together. A unique
   puzzle - never come before, never to come again. Unique. nothing
   like you anywhere. It's just not possible for there to be
   another Jes Scott. Even if you had a clone you'd have different
   histories from that point forward. It's humbling and empowering
   at the same time. ==   ==