Name: My Giant Robot Suit
Uploaded: 2020-04-07T03:20:32.000Z
Duration: 3 min 25 s
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Good morning, John. I would like to tell you about my giant robot suit.

This analogy was brought to me by the remarkable Patrick Rothfuss, the author of "The Name of the Wind",

Which is up there somewhere. In his imagination, everyone on the Internet is walking around in this *place*.

They're hanging out in one neighborhood or another, they're having conversations and discussions and arguments and

And people's robot suits are different. They have different abilities. They're different sizes.

But the really weird thing is you can't see your own robot suit.

Like, if you look at a mirror, you just see skin.

You can only learn about your robot suit by watching other people's reaction to it.

You can't see it, but it's real and if your robot suit is super big,

but you're pretending it isn't real, you might be walking to the store one day and crush a building.

just hoping beyond hope that maybe you'll someday hear them, but to you,

it feels like they're standing right in your face with the spit

And if your robot suit's real big, maybe somebody throws a stone at you thinking it could never do anything

And then when you respond with a rock of your own, if you don't know the strength of your own robot suit

And you do more harm than you wanted to and maybe more harm than you ever even realize.

You might signal bad behavior to a lot of other people, you might ultimately become a destructive force in the world,

But having a giant robot suit is amazing.

Maybe you can broadcast your message to millions of people, you can make money with it,

you can change lives with it, you can change culture with it.

People are always watching you and if you screw up, you do it in public.

sometimes they say things that aren't true and then other people believe those things

because you're there for everyone to look at and think about.

The responsibility of trying to do the right thing with your robot suit can be a big weight

People might see you as so big and powerful that they can do anything or say anything to you

It might make people feel really good and powerful to have any impact on you at all,

But you can't have the good parts without the bad parts.

All of the influence and power and money comes from the same giant robot suit

that makes it really easy for you to do more harm than you intend,

If you're tempted to say that the giant robot suit is only perception,

yeah, but so is everything on the Internet.

So while we can and should ask that people everywhere are thoughtful and kind,

we also need to recognize that the powerful

and should be careful and thoughtful with it.

Is there a 10 step guide on how to do that?

Look in the mirror of other people's eyes and see your power for what it is.

Let it give you the confidence to handle criticism without feeling victimized,

even if that criticism is not kindly meant or kindly delivered.

And let it remind you to be more careful - not to stop moving, not to cease engagement -

but to step lightly, take care, and be kind.

and more and more people are being fitted for their own giant robot suits of various kinds,

I think this is an important thing to talk about.

Whether we're inside the robot suit or just witnessing one from street level,

maybe this metaphor will give people a more accurate understanding of reality

and a tool with which to understand this very new world.

This is all stuff that I'm still thinking about, lessons that I'm still learning.

I have to live with the harm that my missteps have caused

and the weight of the responsibility of my influence.

But if that's the price for a very cool life,