Not that I’m trying to figure out big stuff here or anything.\u00a0 But metadata is big, it’s how we make connections.\u00a0 It’s how we give things meaning.\u00a0 Otherwise, everything is a series of level, equivalent parts.\u00a0 Those parts can be found individually and segments can be spotted in the wild.\u00a0 But putting whole things in context, connecting things together, defining things similarly – this is how we figure out what it means to be human, what it means to be compassionate, what it means to care.\u00a0 Granted, this is also how we figure out how to hate and stereotype and kill.\u00a0 But I do think things made from love will, in the end, make things better and make us better.\u00a0 So I will always try to approach metadata with love and positive focus.\u00a0 Call it my Metadata Manifesto.<\/p>\n
I want to create ways of connecting ideas, creating new meaning.\u00a0 It’s about providing new doors that can be opened, new opportunities that come from excitement instead of fear.\u00a0 New challenges that are welcome instead of worrisome.<\/p>\n
Our ability to understand comes from somewhere.\u00a0 Our collective knowledge means something.\u00a0 Making those connections probably won’t reveal the answer to the meaning of life or anything.\u00a0 (Besides, don’t we already know that’s 42<\/a>?)\u00a0 However, the more we know and understand, the more meaningful life becomes.\u00a0 We learn to empathize and know what it’s like to be in situations that we ourselves have not experienced.\u00a0 We expand beyond our physical boundaries and make connections – we are metadata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not that I’m trying to figure out big stuff here or anything.\u00a0 But metadata is big, it’s how we make connections.\u00a0 It’s how we give things meaning.\u00a0 Otherwise, everything is a series of level, equivalent parts.\u00a0 Those parts can be … Continue reading