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Someone recently asked me: Why do you subscribe to so many different letters by email? Isn't that more noise?
It's an interesting question, because it reveals a little something about how we think about things.
Today, for example, I discovered an amazing thinking piece in a chatty newsletter I typically just glance at.
My take is that the question negates personal agency. That things are done "at" us, and we do nothing about it. Or we just "unsubscribe" to someone else's idea of news and letter.
In fact, the opposite is true. Nobody does anything at you. Unsubscribing is not a way to signal something doesn't hold water. Doing something about it is.
But isn't unsubscribing doing something about it? Maybe, in the same way that one chooses not to engage with ideas that don't mesh with beliefs.
I've changed the unsubscribe confirmation to Conversation Agent weekly email based on this thread. Unsubscribe is just a signal that someone is choosing not to act or engage in any other manner.
There's a time for rolling up sleeves, and there's a time for staying still. Everything in between is an active form of building personal narrative.
