Retweeted @Moochava
Yearly reminder: unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia.…
May 2014
This is hilarious. Living with Lag - an Oculus Rift Experiment. youtu.be/_fNp37zFn9Q
@SimonKnowz @FemButtplug Some... put... outs...? (I'm not even sure where I'm going with that)
Just got malcolmocean.com moved over to @WPEngine. Uhhmazing—My site actually loads before noon. Goodbye @GoDaddy. Please don't call.
@cnvandev I see what you're saying. But really, no, my problem was GoDaddy. So baffled why I was paying for such terrible service.
You know a name is hard to spell when for their email you open a node console & "Ctrl+V".split(" ").join(".").toLowerCase() + "@gmail.com"
Replying to @pmarca
.@pmarca 1/ I think it's fascinating that there are basically datapoints of people off the roads/paths, even running, in parks.
.@pmarca 2/ I mean, I wouldn't expect there to be *many*, but at least *some*.
@WPEngine I'm trying to add a redirect plugin and I keep getting "Unpacking the package… Could not create directory." Halp?
@wpengine Just remembered that you guys have a sophisticated support system. Filed a ticket there :P Hi, whoever wields the twitter acct :)
Just signed up for anynewbooks.com Because what I most need right now is more stuff to read. Totally.
@mijustin Your subscription form seems to be borked, fyi!
Retweeted @KaiUmezawa
I'm tired of hearing that music these days is crap and the golden years are long gone. Music today is awesome!
Replying to @mijustin
@mijustin Oho! I just realized that the url I got redirected to is: justinjackson.ca/email-failure.…. Might want to make the page itself reflect that
.@rem I read your "All about CSS sizing units" blurb and thought "Re: em". Is that the joke? Or...
"Everything worthwhile has an origin, but those origins aren't the reason that they are worthwhile."—@ThisIsSethsBlog sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/201…
Pretty sure regex is actually a super power.
Retweeted @simplic10
Ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough Ain't no signal costly enough
Retweeted @MIRIBerkeley
@siliconvalleycf Our secret is: 70+ person-hours of planning and donor coordination, 10+ energy drinks, and many enthusia…
Retweeted @widdikombe
You heard it here last: Could Soylent Replace Food? nyr.kr/1kSzra2 Photo by @henry_photo
@widdikombe @henry_photo Not just the food of the future—the article of the future too. I love getting news early!
@widdikombe Also I appreciate the depth of your look into @soylent and the mix of adventures with @robrhinehart and personal experiments.
Retweeted @MIRIBerkeley
MIRI might win Total Unique Donors, so even if you can only give $10, it'll help us win $250k of in-kind donations from M…
Retweeted @pomeranian99
The first time I saw the moons of Jupiter, or, "Can evidence really change your mind?" My new piece at "The Message" http…
I really appreciate how @pomeranian99's article explores how evidence *feels*. What does it *feel* like when it changes your mind?
I just found fallingfalling.com and now I want an electronica song that features a shepard tone. ...@BT, you looking for ideas?
#TIL if you do a vertical two finger scroll on the android kindle app, it'll adjust the brightness. #thischangeseverything
@pomeranian99 Mmm! And it's like, because of hindsight bias or illusion or transparency or whatever, it's often hard to remember the change
@pomeranian99 which means it's hard to really get the sense that you're learning.
@sailsjs Your four Next Steps links on the :1337 demo app all just point to sailsjs.org...
Replying to @suchnerve
@VanguardVivian Psht, no. Radiation comes from CHEMICALS.
@MattPRD Adding an actual user login/signup system to my hitherto-email-based-and-manual-signup goals tracking system :)
@iaboyeji I'm really curious in hearing more about what you've been learning. Want to hop on a chat sometime later this week?
@iaboyeji Next week I've got eCoop launch week during the day, but potentially some evening. Where are you? :P
Retweeted @strohl89
It's the international Schelling point for crush confession! It is almost always better to tell than not to tell.... http://t…
@pomeranian99 Mhm! Just like how once you've done something you can easily forget how utterly impossible it seemed before you did it.
@pomeranian99 I actually had to go back and edit a blog post once (malcolmocean.com/2014/04/mft-pa…) because I totally failed to convey that.
@ElleeDuke It's International Tell Your Crush Day! getyourcrushon.wordpress.com
@pomeranian99 Yeah! Except that he bailed :-/ I've kept up my end of things, though. Know anyone who might make a good new partner?
Retweeted @bjfogg
Just met Pitbull. I asked: What advice do you have for my students? He said "Biggest room in the world is room for improvement"
I wonder how much of compulsive facebook-checking can be attributed to the location of the F key on a QWERTY keyboard...
Retweeted @LettersOfNote
It's exactly 2 years since Maurice Sendak died. One of his illustrated envelopes, and a perfect anecdote: …
Kept trying to code instead of working on my pitch. So eventually I threw this into my IDE: patorjk.com/software/taag/…
@Malcolm_Ocean And then, naturally, I had to tweet about it. But I'm going to work now, f'reals.
Replying to @chrisburnor
@chrisburnor Uhhhh.... I picked that font from the generator because it was the most legible.
Retweeted @actionablebooks
Brand new summary on @Frans_Johansson's THE CLICK MOMENT by @Malcolm_Ocean >> ow.ly/wDAJf
Retweeted @sondosia
To paraphrase something @CAwkward often says, they're not succeeding "at" you. They just are. Your feelings about it are vali…
TFW you check the spec & you're like "I don't understand why it's not working" then you finally check your own code and it's not the spec
Replying to @Moochava
@Moochava I liked the barrel scene. ...I think it would have been awesome in a Looney Tunes movie.
@notman I'm going to be à Montréal in late May... can I come hang out in your space while working on my startup? :D
Retweeted @tapfiliate
For the geeks: Don’t you just love how Git makes you feel extra special as a startup founder sometimes? …
@tapfiliate My business is... not quite ready for this yet. Ping me again in mid-June and I'll give it a try then :) It's web-based, yeah?
Has anyone else evolved an intuitive sense of what they're holding on their computer's clipboard?
And like, you feel like you have to be careful as you move around (tabs/windows) so that you don't accidentally drop it / pick up smthg else
This feeling is separate from your actual knowledge of what's *on* your clipboard. You just have an intuitive sense of it having importance.
Retweeted @KudosBot
@Malcolm_Ocean You are the epitome of style.
Retweeted @polemitis
Now hook to Oculus MT @MeredithFrost You can now watch a live stream of Earth from the ISS: m.ustream.tv/recorded/47386… … http://…
One of those days when I'm mostly working but @tagtm keeps pinging me while I'm dancing.
Gaming startups are all "Flappy Bird went viral... We could do that!" That's like "This person won the lottery... I could do that!"
Last day to watch @Cmdr_Hadfield's Space Oddity cover! youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9d… :')
@buster a thought just popped into my head: what if you had google glass and a script that would auto take & post a photo at 8:36pm?
Retweeted @jteberhard
Dan Fincke creates class on "God Is Not Dead", challenges Christians to take it. bit.ly/1liAuO7
@robrhinehart Huh, was skeptical at first but it looks like they looked into the whole correlation/causation thing :)
@buster what would be even more interesting is if it had a constant time but you didn't know what the time was
@buster and it just stored them for a year or something. That way it would be even more unfiltered.
Retweeted @davemorin
Banksy with an hauntingly prescient comment on our time.
Retweeted @jack
We're opening an office in Canada! Hello, Kitchener-Waterloo! squareup.com/ca/news/releas…
'Congrats! Three years ago, you could all honestly answer any legal question with "I don't know." Now you can honestly answer "it depends."'
So tired of blog posts that spend the first third trying to convince you to have a growth mindset.
.@ben_r_hoffman Well, not wasted on me. But since the first third is unlikely to work...
.@ben_r_hoffman although actually I guess it's possible GrowthM is easier to learn for some domain-specific thing than in general...?
Retweeted @ben_r_hoffman
@Malcolm_Ocean Fair enough. They should spend 2/3 trying to convince you to FAKE a growth mindset, to sneak past imposto…
.@ben_r_hoffman Huh, you think people don't get growthy because they don't feel worthy? Hadn't considered that.
@ben_r_hoffman Ohhh, okay yeah. And then I can totally see how telling someone to fake it could actually be decent advice.
.@ben_r_hoffman I think my main qualm= "why would some1 be reading an article on networkng better if they didnt think it possible to learn?"
The article, fwiw: “9 Simple Ways To Become An Expert Networker — Even If You’re An Introvert” by @Aboundlessworld medium.com/@Aboundlesswor…
Once I got past the intro, @Aboundlessworld did have some good tips :P I guess I'm not really the target audience (introvert) too... :P
@Aboundlessworld also we need to be friends. Look at my freaking Twitter bio.
@Aboundlessworld I'd be curious to see a study on what the impact is of including such a section in an advice/howto piece (by mindset, even)
.@Aboundlessworld I'm also tired of being reminded that networking isn't evil. But I realize some people haven't gotten the message there :P
1/ This reminds me! Today I saw "what does the word sales make you think of?" My answer was "communicating value, but..." @Aboundlessworld
2/ "...but that question makes me think of people insisting it doesn't have to be slimy" @Aboundlessworld
Toca Rivera's laugh though. (Listening to I Never Knew You (Live) by @JasonMraz rd.io/x/QX55-zdeUjby/ )
A great practical example of simple agency in "Get unstuck creatively" by @kadavy us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=836dc9c6486…
@pcvincent protip: my chrome CPU spikes to 50% when I leave neuranet.com/parallax/ open for more than a few secs. I noticed my fan turn on.
Retweeted @pcvincent
The Gravity Light - $5-10 light for areas of the developing world that are off the electric grid. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QX32yQ…
#stevelightstone #ecoop #uwaterloo I win
"The people that love you will be loyal clients. The people that hate you will talk about you because they hate you." — @stevelightstone
@rrhoover My home screen, including a shortcut to the webapp of my nascent productivity startup, @CompliceGoals
Feature suggestion for @Unrollme: sort the list by how many emails they've sent in the last month!
@joelrunyon I̶M̶P̶O̶S̶S̶I̶B̶L̶E̶ unicode: adamvarga.com/strike/
Mashups are so freaking efficient. I'm listening to 56 songs at once right now. mashupsmashupsmashups.tumblr.com/post/723958796…
Retweeted @LivingRmContext
I don't think you owe me "unconditional love". AND, I don't want conditional love either. So clearly that model isn't…
@Uequals1 I think it would probably be better to have a more dedicated blog so that things can be more in context... the @LivingRmContext :P
#kwawesome can we do this? ctvnews.ca/canada/penny-f…
Retweeted @stevenkaas
You are not the king of your brain. You are the creepy guy standing next to the king going "a most judicious choice, sire".
I've learned a lot from cuddle parties, but when I bring them up in conversation, I often get "a *what* party?" Q&A: malcolmocean.com/2014/05/cuddle…
TFW your swipe keyboard gives you a word that you like more than the one you were going for. ...but it doesn't fit grammatically.
FB messenger is getting silly. I have to hide the keyboard to read anything at all. Plz hide smiley bar instead.
iiiit's time for bed. youtube.com/watch?v=BW-tzE…
Retweeted @k_arin
"Imagine how our culture will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as go-getters" @ariannahuff #socialentrepreneurshi…
Retweeted @patrickc
On Being The Right Size: phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy322…
@rrhoover ... @OHintheTL is already a thing, since just 3 weeks ago!
16 minutes of REM in my 21 minute nap :)
@ben_r_hoffman About 15 days (not consecutive) of uberman / nap-only sleep, plus hundreds of other naps on saner schedules.
Retweeted @ramez
Go orange! MT @noahi: State Same-Sex Marriage Laws map updated after Oregon. bit.ly/1hYlELA
Yeeaaah, my inbox is not getting zeroed tonight.
.@RaveNectar If you had a longsleeve shirt like this I would wear it so hard.
@heinousdealings Everyone indulges in hypocrisy! If you call out... hypocrites... but not... meta-hypocrites... Err, wait. Hmm.
@CaliCoyote Be maximally likeable to certain people—which means necessarily not-so-likeable to others. Beats having every1 think you're meh.
The Dinosaur's Tale from @NealStephenson's Diamond Age is one of the best short stories I've read. And it's in the middle of a novel.
@RaveNectar DOOOO IIIITTT :D
I'm MALCOLM on @YoAppStatus. Come say hi. Err, crap. Come say "yo". justyo.co
@Aboundlessworld I HEAR YOU. Went away for the weekend, then ignored my inbox yesterday to do REAL WORK. Good decisions, but now...
.@pomeranian99 I'm looking forward to when we can just ask computers questions like this and they'll process a million songs and tell us.
In which @maneesh explains how if you meet an important person, it's really important to remember to kiss them. hackthesystem.com/blog/the-vip-f…
Retweeted @ScottWesterfeld
You kids have it so easy. In my day, to block someone from your timeline, you had to go back a century or so and kill …
I'm on an adventure, climbing Ballmer Peak!
I think I'm going to switch to @CoffeeScript just so I stop getting burned when I forget commas in object literal.
I hear about @circlebits. I'm like, another startup called Circle? Seriously? Then I realize they've got the dotcom. Oh, snap.
Retweeted @ideoforms
cannot stop laughing at the accidental surrealist algo-genius of @SummaryBug (h/t @moleitau)
The @GoNovoEd #DQ101 course has True/False questions that alternate the order of the true and false options. Wat. #HumanFactors #NotHelping
@donovanable Seems the link has broken since when you put it in your buffer and now... :-/
Montreal I am in you.
Retweeted @sondosia
@donovanable @Malcolm_Ocean Dammit! I was planning on reading that.
Guy yells at me for being dressed "comme une fille". Definitely the first time I've had l'esprit d'escalier actually in French.
@luminousalicorn Well I thought of "oui, et vous êtes habillé comme une homme" but then I realized that hinges on other nasty gender shit.
@luminousalicorn Then I thought of saying something simpler like "ne dire à ta petite amie que vous detestez des filles" (he wasn't alone)
@nealstephenson 1/ Wanted to tell you that I had a fit of laughter for several mins during the scene in DiamondAge when Hackworth is so
@nealstephenson 2/ freaked out about having to explain stuff to Finkle-McGraw etc that he gets completely distracted by the sauce ingreds.
@nealstephenson 3/ &sure, the book could've just relayed that. But instead *the very narrative* is distracted by the ingredients. Fantastic.
Oh wow, BTC is back above $500 for the first time in a month.
Weird that there are @BMO branches all across the nation, but I've only ever seen Banque Nationale in Montréal.
Retweeted @VanJones68
Black guy shoots folks= thug. Brown guy shoots folks= terrorist. White guy guns down women = "nice kid with mental health i…
Retweeted @albinwonderland
claims that feminists are using this event for their own agenda are ABSOLUTELY TRUE. their agenda is: they want women …
Retweeted @cmclymer
Fellow men: when reading these tweets, don't take them personally. This is an amazing chance to learn about everyday sexism. …
Wow, and here I thought I didn't have any respect for @RogersHelps left to lose!
.@RogersHelps I just went into a store. They told me to call Support. I did. They said no, they couldn't help me. System upgrade or smthg?
@RogersHelps I bought a prepaid deal for my trip to Montréal because Wind roaming is crazy. But the data just stopped working. #noideawhy
@RogersHelps Will do. But FYI, calling that number has been aversive because it takes forever for me to get to an agent.
@julien If you like coop boardgames, I found Sentinels of the Multiverse really fun. It's like MtG but all players against a supervillain.
Replying to @SchreckReports
.@SchreckReports is there any particular meaning behind the new-June diagram? Is it just a visual proposal for [3on 1off 3on 3off]? @Slate
Another great piece by @SchreckReports: "Our bars are too loud, our cafés too quiet" ∴ no revolutions slate.com/articles/life/… CC @Balzacs
@ben_r_hoffman @SchreckReports @Balzacs I mean, awful. But arguably better than needing a revolution and not getting one...
Retweeted @codinghorror
"Not All *" is just a dumb pattern of argument in general. Of course not all. But enough to be a problem.
Retweeted @cnvandev
petarded - n. Characterized by excruciating damage from a small flaw of hubris.
Saying "hey" without telling someone what you want to talk about is like saying "will you do me a favour?" without telling them what it is.
@ben_r_hoffman I think the point @codinghorror was making is that the original person never *claims* all in the first place. But enough...
...It requires some trust & familiarity, and if that trust isn't there, it may reasonably be frustrating for the other person.
The vibrato in @hocpoc's Vocab! Never thought I'd enjoy someone saying the word "suckaah" so much. Uhh...go listen: youtube.com/watch?v=qZ4XUD…
Replying to @tanayj
Does This Headline Fall Victim To Betteridge's Eponymous Law? cc @tanayj @pmarca @YourTitleSucks
Retweeted @BetteridgesLaw
@Malcolm_Ocean @tanayj @pmarca No, for the same reason that intentionally invoking Godwin's Law is disallowed.
@james_clear YES. I'm excited :P Also maybe let's snag a twitter hashtag, like #100subsday
.@james_clear I would be interested in hearing less Why and more How. I have the why — that's why I'm at your webinar :P #100subsday
Not getting what you want feels immensely worse if you can’t pretend you didn’t want it. malcolmocean.com/2014/05/self-a…
#ifinamedthings EDM would be EBM — Electronic Bounce Music. It's not really that dancey.
@kdmoores Thanks! How did you feel about being linked to halfway down it? It's something new I'm experimenting with :P
@james_clear More around driving traffic, but I'm very technical to begin with so that might not be representative.
@james_clear in particular, 1 thing I'm interested in is: if a lot of my articles link to each other, does it stillwork to repost elsewhere?
@kdmoores Huh. That makes sense. And the sections of the article are quite distinct. Did you go back up and read the whole thing then, or?
@james_clear So they get republished, with a bunch of links back to your blog? Nice!
"What's the term for a person you're connected with on LinkedIn? Like FB has 'friends', Twitter has 'followers" "inmates," replies my brain
MT @rrhoover The soul of wit is beautiful
@kdmoores Gotcha. But only after I mentioned that? Or on your own when you hit the end of the post?
An ad for NLP: "it asks HOW did [...] J.K. Rowling write several best selling books?" same way R Galbraith wrote several unheard-of ones.
also I'd like to thank @Frans_Johansson & The Click Moment for making that an instant red flag for me :)
Birdly: an attempt to fly. (using #OculusRift) birdly.zhdk.ch/en/about/
You're gonna follow @anildash and ~2k other ppl. A few days later, you’re going to unfollow everyone but Anil Dash. medium.com/cool-code-pal/…
@donovanable You flirting with Boston is... pretty great.
@donovanable I mean, I've seen humans flirting with other humans/humanoids before. ...imagining you making eyes at a city is... different.
Retweeted @donovanable
@Malcolm_Ocean *breathy voice* It's just so...old and distinguished and, *sigh* worldly. *swoon*
Why does Twitter do this? Is it averse to breaking the 4th wall and telling Malcolm about Malcolm? cc @donovanable
.@PeterSokolowski @GretchenAMcC Often when I'm just thinking of a word in my head, its shape on a qwerty keyboard will come to mind.
.@PeterSokolowski @GretchenAMcC based on where I was during my first memory of this, it's been happening since I was about 13.
I commit to offering no praise, no blame, and no apologies; and to reveal, acknowledge, and appreciate instead. malcolmocean.com/2013/12/apolog…
Does the "do you mind ___?" phrasing make it easier for people to refuse by not forcing them to say "no"? #showerthoughts
I don't always chore, but when I do I terpsichore.
.@hueykwik Of course! Making it easier for someone to refuse something makes it easier for them to say yes. nirandfar.com/2013/07/why-be…
@tinomesis *dry heaves*
@tinomesis but they let you stay for another hour? ...+1
@nireyal FYI I noticed that your MEA article (which I ♥ & often link to) has been made less NewYearsy... but still says "As you start 2012"
liiike.... #NotAllMen? RT @naval Pointing out obvious exceptions implies that either the target isn't smart, or that you aren't.
Retweeted @lexiconvalley
Why do you think you're right about language? @GretchenAMcC on why you both are and aren't. slate.me/1k8Dh0P
TFW you delete an entire paragraph from your blog post. #brevity #soulofwit
Next on Rationalist Game Show™! What Would Omega Do when playing Newcomb's Problem with The Dice Man? *cue theme song*
@hueykwik Hmm. I mean, if we're talking about probability, that would necessarily follow. But if we're talking about psychological ease...
My latest blog post! Habit Models: Routines vs Defaults malcolmocean.com/2014/05/routin…
@ronlieber Today my dad was like "you're gonna want to start investing" and I'm like "yeah, index funds." Him: oh, what makes y— Me: experts
Goal intentions have been shown to be effective for behaviour change. Even more so with implementation intentions. malcolmocean.com/2013/11/intro-…
Replying to @KMSilverTweets
@KMBTweets a *hug* if you want one :-`
Retweeted @BT
Last thought of the day : now that doctors are hacking 3D printers to make simple organs, imagine someday you could torrent an organ
Retweeted @ramez
Nest, as predicted, is the beginning of the Smart Grid. This is why Google spent $3.2 Billion to buy them: …
You had to be careful what ideas you shared, not because people would laugh, but because they'd make you pursue them! kadavy.net/blog/posts/10-…
@sharplet_ED Hey! I'm a current fan&user of Anki. Why would I want to switch to Sharplet?
Retweeted @MemberOfSpecies
Half the people who are referred to by this noun phrase.
@sharplet_ED Awesome. I appreciate your honesty :) main thing I want is book flashcards that get added to deck chapter by chapter.
Was trying out @GoogleBooks. Realized it has no highlight feature. Am no longer trying out @GoogleBooks.