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#self-reflection

September 2026 1 note

reflections 1 min read

I think I want to get out of the screens game

You got to, as they say, have a system. And one of mine is to, by default, wear shorts between April and September. That means today is the last day of default shorts-wearing in 2026, as we enter six months of much darker days here in the North East of England.

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August 2026 1 note

reflections updated 4 min read

Validation, recognition, and credentialing

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Doug, in response to Laura's post questioning what does validation look like?, explores the interconnected concepts of validation, recognition, and credentialing. He proposes that validation is an intra-personal act of absorbing evidence, recognition is the inter-personal acknowledgement of that validation, and credentialing is a formalised, portable way of encoding recognition. Doug argues that recognition systems should foster "absorption" to facilitate validation, and acknowledges that validation processes vary among individuals due to unique personal histories.

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