FAQ
F.A.Q.
(frequently asked questions, including ones nobody has ever asked)
“Alphaila”… What is that?
Alphaila is the pursuit of human improvement/perfection in every form; reinventing the way you operate, the world around you, and everything in-between. Now, whether or not perfection can ever fully be reached isn’t the point… the point is that it can be fully pursued.
The word ‘Alphaila’ is a made-up cousin of the word ‘perfection’. Its thinking is without exact definition, but some example principles are:
- Being skeptical of crowd-spawned ideas and norms (and trying to reinvent your exits when you feel trapped. Example: do you think public school is the worst thing that’s happening to your kids? Rather than accepting this with a sense of defeat, Alphailic thinking would suggest doing some research on homeschooling, “unschooling”, and other alternatives… then, if the common formulas for homeschooling and unschooling had limitations, you’d reinvent them for yourself, trying to fill in the holes, then pass on the things you figured out.)
- Finding the actual purpose behind common behaviors before adopting them yourself. (an easy example would be realizing that there’s no need or benefit in using argument as a way to communicate even extremely normal ideas to your family.)
- When hearing about something that begs for belief – like that child vaccines cause Autism – not allowing the fact that it seems to make sense (even a lot of sense) instantly convince you that it MUST be right. Alphailic thinking is very rational, and part of rational thinking is giving consideration to other possibilities, and not just going with the first thing that makes sense. Part of the reason for this comes from, for instance, the observation that every political party in the world has some angle of approach from which it can be seen as making full sense… and yet we know that not every political party can be correct. Hence we make sure we aren’t signing up for merely the FIRST one that gets our attention, before we’ve considered others, or discarded “parties” altogether. (so, it’s like this: if a treasure map shows three X’s, and you find the treasure on the first, you still dig up the other two.)
Who is Dario D.?
Me, the clown that runs this site. <that link goes to my personal site.
Did one of the articles change from last time I saw it?
Could be! My articles are more like projects – never with any deadline or “done” point – so, whenever I think something could use an update, I update it.
How can I help out?
By submitting tips, ideas, new research studies, etc, via this page.
Can I advertise on this site?
Nope. :)
Can I advertise on this site if it makes you very rich?
Nope. :)
Can I post your articles and content around?
Yeah. You can redistribute and re-post any of my articles/images/etc freely, without asking. Yes, this means you can do full article re-posts on your blog/site, and you don’t need to get permission. Please just link back in some way (if even almost hidden), so that my search-engine pagerank can increase, allowing more people to find my stuff.
If you reuse text/images, I only ask that you keep them unchanged (except when translated, of course, or just edited for typos)… and, if it’s a public re-post/re-print, please make sure the actual author is mentioned somewhere: “Dario D.” (my actual last name is Dinatale, but I don’t go by it – pronunciation is a hassle – so, only use it if needed)…