My life is janky, like the poorly jury-rigged assemblage of dubious open-source software and premium-mediocre SaaS tooling it is based on 🤔
Kinda works, and not too fragile, but definitely not a well-oiled machine
Somebody theorize jankiness please. I'm too le tired to do it
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Flip it around for a moment. If your life was effortlessly smooth and utopian how bland would it be?
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Suspect it can correlate with certain kinds of attainable value. Often encounter as trade-off for benefits which would otherwise be significantly more difficult or costly to acquire. Ex. a relatively nice car/apartment/gadget etc w annoying quirks from age or general unrefinement
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Jankiness implies a good enough, minimum viable product approach without really perfecting something. It's the 🦊 way of living.
If you earn your means by being a context whisperer, being janky allows you to hop.
The alternative would be fine-tuning to the point of fragility.
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In a fast-evolving world, flexibility is a cardinal virtue; it could be that lifestyle design going anything beyond janky would in fact be premature optimization, resulting in sunk costs that make one less adaptable.
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Well oiled machines make you complacent. Fostering an ever increasing tolerance for jankyness is polymath plyometrics.
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Your life is a fractal of small world networks. It doesn't feel well connected, but the avg node distance is shortened by random edges, so it is still comprehensible.
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Jankiness is a sort of crudeness that resists excessive refinement. It's unruly because it's distrustful of rules. You could live a more elegant life if you wanted, but it would be at the expense of interestingness - which is what you really want, probably
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Jankiness could result from an interaction between preferences and the environment, or be a result of a mismatch between the resources needed to fully address a challenge and the resources available. A change of preferences, environment, or resources might change jankiness level.
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