Tag: effects

Don’t Mix Up Secrecy And Privacy

Post author By jrlsage
Post date December 23, 2015

They aren’t the same thing

Secrecy, or hiding things, often gets confused with privacy, or the ability to hide. People conflate the two, and often decide that they connect.

One is passive, the other is reactive. And when they meet, sometimes the results are disastrous.

So What Do You Mean?

The reason people conflate privacy and secrecy is that they are very close to each other. People use both to decide a ton of situations dealing with certain places environment. Things like information security all the way down to how your cubicle placement matter when discussing privacy and secrecy.

One thing I have noticed though, is that when we go to far on one, the other starts to feel the effects. If you create a place with no privacy, watch the secrecy level sky-rocket. When people don’t feel protected, everything they do becomes nerve-racking. Even if things come together in a way where people mean connection, they can’t help but not, because with nowhere to hide, they become hidden people.

A great example: Watch a team go from a closed office space to an open environment with no training or context. There are a ton of studies on this, but if you want the TL;DR, productivity plummets, trust goes down2222 the tube, and “collaboration” gain gets demolished, even if the people in charge meant well.

Closing

Both words, secrecy and privacy, are words that are important to people. We aren’t built to share everything at all times, and taking either away often has odd effects.

The key from this is both not to confuse the two, and to understand that sometimes this is inversely connected. Placing someone in a highly private area can make turn them into spies if you aren’t careful. Nothing powerful ever got done in a world lacking trust.

Tags effects, growth, privacy, protected, secrecy

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Pain Is Sharp & Dull

Post author By jrlsage
Post date December 17, 2015

Pain

Pain is interesting to me.

I spent the last few days thinking about pain, and how it affects us.

When pain hits, it usually comes in two flavors – sharp and dull. Both affect you in a different way.

Sharp pain is a quick. Put your hand on a hot stove, that pain is going to hit you in the hand, and its going to sting. Same thing with a bee, stubbing your toe, or getting punched. The pain hits you with a sharp sting.

What follows after is the dullness. That throbbing that just sits there, and sticks around. The burn that happens after putting the hand on the stove, the bruise after the stubbed toe, and the black eye are good representations of dull plain.

What are the effects?

Sharp pain makes you present. It connects the world to you in a, well painful, way. It’s why you instinctively go for a smack to wake someone up(not a great way to wake up a friend). As much as that person won’t like you, it will wake them up.

Dull pain works as a reminder. After a long enough period, its routine. Burned your hand, well, every time you get that dull pain, it reminds you of the stove you ought to avoid.

So whats the point?

Not all things that hurt are bad. Pain isn’t the problem if you turn the perspective. What I used to think was a bad thing, something hurting, just was a lesson I needed to learn.

Pain isn’t weakness leaving the body, as is so often said. What it is though, is a great reminder of what is happening in our lives and who we are. Don’t regret something bad when it happens, look for the lesson,and it you find that the world gives you a ton to learn, it’s just up for you to listen.

Tags dull, effects, lesson, Pain, sharp, strength, thought, weakness