The Wordsmith's Forge

Ohhh gosh that is a lot of material thank youuuuuu <3

I have a notes file I'm building on this, and I'm going to need to come back to this one when I can hook the notes file to a real keyboard, but.

>>Get some people at work trained in psychological first aid.<<

This, I think, is step #1. I have enough of a platform that I can do a pilot, and if it works, publish results where the wider community can get at them. But step 0 is compiling training, so that's what I'm looking at now.

>>feeling helpless<<

I have this one on my list already. \o/ Doing something right, anyway.

...this is rapidly becoming A Project. Eep.

>>like being able to turn off your location if your relatives are harassing you<<

Oh man, I could get /going/ about Google's abuses of data. >:(

>>So whenever someone wails, "What can I do?" hand them the appropriate list and make sure they've done everything on it.<<

OH OH OH. Checklists. I can DO checklists. :D

>>Have resources for preventing PTSD in an emergency.<<

I feel like we're halfway there on a number of important points, not just at my company but my industry. And it's a really good point about Tetris and other brain-toy games. I play Zen Koi for soothing - you're not stack-sorting quite the same way, but it's a pleasing, hypnotic, zero-pressure sort of game.

>>Make sure your company does not have mandated debriefing sessions, which are implicated in making PTSD worse.<<

Um. :( We have audits to meet.

That doesn't mean any /given/ person has to be in the room, but it does mean that, frex, if it was Bobby who caught the malicious traffic surge, it's Bobby who makes sure the report is correct. They don't have to /write/ it, but the expectation is that they will. That's something we can maybe work on, or at least provide aftercare options when it's unavoidable.

>>But double-check local outcomes because some geeks are nature-averse or indifferent and might do better with scenes of floating cities or happy robots.<<

If it's on a screen, no reason we can't have options. Pick happy robots, fish, happy robots WATCHING fish. In a forest. (Uh, I'd stare at that. Oops. XD)

Speaking of soothing geek toys: someone made a bunch of beautiful animated environments. Beware, some of the non-clear weather statuses have sound effects.

>>Just treat it like any other problem that needs the engineering problem-solving loop routine, it'll work.<<

That's the nice thing about having a self-correcting process. ;)

>>Someone should have the responsibility of scanning the cutting edge of the above listed topics for new developments.<<

Yeah. Right now that's me, acting out of annoyance at the state of my industry. I wonder if there's a group already working on this stuff..? If there is, bet I can find them.

>>They are slow as a party server at peak demand<<

I snickered, I admit. :D

>>I know how to skip ahead and make obvious changes to things that aren't obvious to most people, so if you need help on this topic, I can be a sounding board or can be hired to write nonfiction.<<

Oooooh. I will take you up on that.. um, when I get this thing out of concept and research and moving toward implementation? I'm sorry to say I don't know when that's going to be.