Comments on: The Will to Relevance

By: Motivation Reconsidered | Brian Frank

Motivation Reconsidered | Brian Frank — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:18:58 +0000

[...] underlies almost everything I write (first described in detail here; used earlier here and here), and is at the core of the book about truth, will & relevance I [...]

By: Effects of Ideas, Stories, and Theories | Brian Frank

Effects of Ideas, Stories, and Theories | Brian Frank — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:47:21 +0000

[...] is where we can learn a lot from the web — specifically the way systems organize according to relevance — the way they’re always changing, merging together, and splitting off into new [...]

By: Thinking in the 21st Century: Progress Report | Brian Frank

Thinking in the 21st Century: Progress Report | Brian Frank — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:33:06 +0000

[...] and ongoing interactions. A couple of years ago I proposed we should think of ourselves as motivated by a kind of will to relevance» The problem with the simplified good-evil accounts of human nature is that they treat people as [...]

By: Update On That Project Provisionally Called A Book | brianfrank.ca

Update On That Project Provisionally Called A Book | brianfrank.ca — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:54:00 +0000

[...] The Will to Relevance [...]

By: Building Better Metaphors, Starting From Relevance | the Open/Conceptual Studio

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:35:17 +0000

[...] The search for a beta-think metaphor builds on a more fundamental one I worked out last year, when I proposed that relevance will become the key to a new theory of human motivation: [...]

By: Hipsters and Signaling | brianfrank.ca

Hipsters and Signaling | brianfrank.ca — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:29:09 +0000

[...] have to be a signal to others. Some things can be a signal to reassure oneself of one’s own relevance, importance, competence, individuality, and [...]

By: AIG and the Need for Managed Self-Assertion | brianfrank.ca

AIG and the Need for Managed Self-Assertion | brianfrank.ca — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:34:41 +0000

[...] is a simplistic, outmoded interpretation (belonging back in the 19th century; we have better metaphors now). Here’s a more up-to-date insight, care of Arnold Kling: Michael Strong suggests that [...]

By: The Foundation for Middle East Peace… | Brnfrnk

The Foundation for Middle East Peace… | Brnfrnk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:25:07 +0000

[...] a look at what I’m doing: start here, here, [...]

By: What Will Change Everything Mashup | B Frank

What Will Change Everything Mashup | B Frank — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:29:55 +0000

[...] new metaphors for complex natural processes like consciousness and emergence. (See my essay on the Will to Relevance, a step towards a new theory of human [...]

By: Fiction Review: Lush Life, by Richard Price | B Frank

Fiction Review: Lush Life, by Richard Price | B Frank — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:19:34 +0000

[...] we do is affected by a will to become oneself, which means constantly acting in ways that make oneself relevant to others yet [...]