Participants or collaborators, what's the difference?

One’s level of participation is dependent on how one defines his own role.

I thought of the people coming on board as collaborator, but an exchange with Ahdini reminded me that they may think of themselves as participants, and then again maybe neither, none, of us defined either properly and the interpretation is vague.

I thought I was pretty clear that everyone should have some sense of ownership, and discretion to affect anything and they can exercise their freewill. But in the end, I just had someone conclude with me that everyone’s a participant, and I think maybe the distinction is arbitrary and not up to me to define, but rather, up to oneself to own.

One draws ones own internal loci of control. I don’t think anything is good or bad per se, but it’ll be better for everyone to be clear that we each draw a comfortable whatever and don’t blame whatever because that’s very neg and tiresome.

I was telling somebody last week that I have a very indie garage band artist-initiated kind of vibe but I think that’s like because of my somewhat upbringing by entrepreneur parents, and then also because of growing up in the 80s, 90s, surrounded by heros like the dudes who created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and then watching my teachers in my secondary school arranging for a bunch of us naughty girls into staging proper drama and dance production at the victoria and kallang theatre. so in uni, i had access to the Pro-audio technology and equipment and we recorded songs for people, and the band was like wanting to record like 12 or something songs and I was like, okay let’s cut an album la we have CD burners right, just do it, and then okay let’s have an outdoor music festival because the acoustics are better if it doesn’t rain. okay what. that’s what I did growing up so, let’s just put the factors together and then something can happen no problem.

my problem is, i don’t know how to ask for money. so i’m always playing around at the indie do it and move on to the next thing scale. which is find, but it just doesn’t get easier, because i have less money as time goes by. How to ask for money? so that it gets easier. get a job or hustle properly. which is what I mean about how I don’t know how to ask for money.

But I digress, my point is, i must know that not everybody grew up with with my kind of sense and the opportunities to practice drawing these loci of control. and I also learnt about loci of control at a pretty youngish age. alright.