Good thinking counts on Hunome

The world is complicated. Fragmentation and polarization of information are diminishing the human ability to act meaningfully. Simplistic points of view are getting too much attention. Many ‘one to many’ social structures of today and planned for the future will only worsen things.

Internet social spaces cater to individualism. They forget that nothing happens without a shared understanding and buy-in. Making one’s thinking matter within context is a way to make it count. Build, not blast.

Innovation keeps happening, even in social spaces, in many ways. There is much room for more than incremental tweaks to what was before. There is room for purpose-oriented leaps that deliver a whole new value.

Hunome rewards a particular kind of thinking person. This person knows that there are many silos to break and that our world needs new approaches. Getting to a shared multidimensional understanding of the shape of things that were, are and are yet to come.

Fleeting messages vs creating something

My own experience with Twitter has been much more about – “if I must” – than it returning anything much back. My fault, I am sure, as I did not give it my all, did not engage with others a lot, and did not follow the rules of how to matter.

There was a good flow with it for a moment. This had to do somewhat with Twitter. It had more to do with ManageFlitter, a product that enabled building a community on Twitter. That thriving business closed due to Twitter changing its API rules. I spent 2 hours per day creating content for the growing community. My efforts did not amount to something more significant as time passed, but I kept feeding the flow.

Some years ago, I ran a Twitter session with the Association of Professional Futurists on the theme of ‘the future of identity.' It was a nightmare, as the speed with which tweets flew by in front of me made it very hard to engage in a live session.

Hunome’s design makes it easy to come together as a group. However, you can also build an understanding solo, run a session online, or continue to build asynchronously, which really helps with the issues around continuity.

This way, you and your group can build a shared and shareable understanding. You can bring to the world a theme that you would like the world to know more comprehensively. We talk more about the power of collective sensemaking through multidimensional understanding here.

Gaining a natural atomic community vs followers

In the many contexts that mean something to us, we can make our efforts matter better. No human being is one thing.

The structure of social media is ‘one to many’. Everyone scrambles to position themselves, find a way to attract, and mold one’s communication to suit social media. Everyone blasts. Does anyone listen? What if you could mingle in the thought community that is natural to what inspires you? Unless you are already famous, the efforts to build community otherwise are massive.

On Hunome, you build understanding with our thinking tool, which connects the dots. Those on the same agenda or interest can join you. You develop your engaged community around the thinking you share.

On social media, a ‘following’ starts to narrow you down. You end up with a demanding audience for whom you should deliver. Imagine those people in a role, and once they stop that role, the following disappears. This is not great when they should matter in the contexts where they have valuable input. At Hunome, you work on what interests you, and your organic atomic community builds for and with you.

The ‘one to many’ social media model isolates even those with big follower numbers. The setup leaves us all scrambling for attention. The tricks used to get the attention are getting crazier by the day.

We focus on giving kudos and building value for those who influence through their thinking. At Hunome, those who build good understanding rise to prominence.

Good thinking counts on Hunome

You have created much understanding about how the world works or should work, but does it get counted? You argue your case well, but does it get visibility? Isn’t it time that thinking well, arguing well, and building an understanding should count?

Our world is disjointed, fragmented, polarized, bored, skeptical, cynical, vain and manipulated. Too much emphasis is put on mundane, or things to be ‘purchased’ —a vain comparison with others. The rabbit holes and stuck minds turn neighbors into enemies and dinner parties into silences or worse. No wonder there are mental health issues. Much good is going on, too. But for the innovative ‘cultural creatives’, sharing and consuming tidbits at a time seems pointless.

You may be influenced to believe rubbish. Who is there to challenge the propaganda machine when you most need it? Also, influence has become about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Our world has many worthy stories to tell and things to fix. Let’s deal with the cynical downward spiral.

Would you like to have a broader understanding, become more perceptive, mingle with thinkers from many disciplines, or create a comprehensive bigger picture? If so, Hunome is the place for you.

You get it. The world’s problems are not solved purely by your individual smarts and arguments. You engage in deliberation with those who offer another dimension and gain a shared understanding. Without that, the smarts do not move the needle. Without buy-in, not much happens. If you are not part of the solution, you remain part of the problem.

Being part of this solution is as easy as tweeting or sharing a blog post. The reverberations of what you shared are much bigger as your thoughts sit in context. They are surrounded by others who see this context to be of importance. You are not alone.

Let's reject the ‘master-slave’ structure of social media communication. One person shares and others comment. Too often, the commenting is a purposefully disruptive emotional rant, gaining momentary power for very little return for them or anyone else.

Each posting (a ‘Spark’ on Hunome) is its own entity. The best will be connected with and built upon, as well as argued in context. These become the hot spots of human engagement. Expressions that do not comply with our community code of conduct can be reported. Also, they can be drowned out by not connecting to them.

There is more to life than ‘trending’. As a recovering futurist, I enjoy a good understanding of trends. Trending, as it is now defined, is geared to the media side of social media. Hence, Twitter works well for politicians and journalists. At Hunome, we build ways for us all to understand human beings' deeper interests, how we change and evolve in our worldviews, and the goals we aim for.

Social media vs social network

By definition, social media bases its revenue on advertising. A social network does not necessarily do that. We are a social and thought network—no advertising distracts us from our purpose. On Hunome, our purpose is to help humanity make sense of itself. We assist with tools to facilitate this and data to help understand what is going on.

Hunome is free to use, and our model has upgrade paths for the tools and data. Uniquely, it provides the means to make sense of themes through multidimensional understanding.

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, warned: “Advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.” The same applies to social media.

Boutique search for understanding

When searching today, you get ‘PageRank’. This structure means that you get what algorithms deem to be the priority. This narrows us to funnels that the search engine thinks are good. Also, we get tidbits. By definition, it will not find what you did not search for. A search engine cannot deliver human ingenuity, change, trains of thought, or systems of thought. At Hunome, you get an understanding and insights in return. You are feeding your curiosity by inspiring thought connections.

You can take time to munch on your views and those of others. You can build from them. We, as a community, speed up innovation with this structure and approach. The signs are there from our early members. The approach is conducive to Aha moments when seeing the bigger picture. Aha moments happen when you see how your thought lead and connect to another.

Your efforts are not wasted at Hunome

Have you tweeted steadily over many years? Do you have followers to show for it? Journalists, politicians, tech leaders, and celebrities tend to get that. Does it feel like you’ve achieved very little for those tweets? Did they not build to anything but fleeting moments in front of a small set of eyeballs? All your followers see nothing. For most, this is the case. Join Hunome in the build and make your mark on what is next in our world. It is never too late to build.

Get started with your build! Take leadership in a theme of importance to you!