Tweetstorm about prospects for Amazon now that it owns Whole Foods.
July 2017
Not sure how twitter threads work, but I think if you click the tweet below you'll get a cool branchy tweetstorm thing on productivity tools
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It's actually an unusually good way to find interesting reading: think of a good title and google it. Whois for ideaspace.
"...I mean, snuggling isn't *not* a speech act..." (from a convo with @SarahAMcManus)
@visakanv @fortelabs Pleasure, sure. But where does the *energy* come from? Whence musical dynamics -> human dynamos?
@visakanv @fortelabs Reflecting on that, quite potentially early or proto-humans used to work to rhythm, and having that be energizing was adaptive...
@visakanv @fortelabs Easier to put out lots of energy when others also doing so; your hard work won't be taken advantage of... or something like that.
One of my main deliverables for every quarter. My standards keep going up.
@deanboop @vgr Identity itself is pretty poorly defined. All improvement is necessarily a change (though not reverse) ∴ better person => different person
@fortelabs @visakanv It's not about "is adaptive", but "was". And I actually disagree. Given the tradeoffs, it wouldn't be adaptive for you to fly.
@fortelabs @visakanv I found that reading The Simple Math of Evolution on LW made me able to think WAY better about this kind of stuff lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien…
Retweeted @vishalchandra
Be more responsible for everything you do or do not do!
Retweeted @keithsmih
I wish people would question how the Dollar works like they question me how #bitcoin works.
@mistermircea I think the "it doesn't make sense to you either" is that over-explaining comes from lack of trust, which is often from lack of self-trust.
Each human has many symbiotic relationships with other humans. We are interdependent. Can be parasitic; can also be obligate mutualism.
Self-parasitism is of course unsustainable, so the only way to survive as an entire species is to learn mutualism.
Retweeted @kaleidic
Over time my focus of activism moved to reducing coercive, authoritarian attitudes in personal relationships. Activism that s…
Retweeted @kentarokaneda
TFW a new metaphor inspires an essay, but by the time you write the whole longform piece the original metaphor doesn't actually fit anymore
Retweeted @chenoehart
After coming up with one particularly powerful idea for a sentence, can feel intimidating to make rest of what you're writi…
@vgr Rick&Morty is one of only 3 shows I have sought to watch on my own in past 10yrs. The humor is good & the narratives unpredictable.
@vgr (The other two shows are Dead Like Me and Orphan Black, since of course people will be curious.)
@vgr (I grew up w/o a TV, so my reference level for TV-watching is very low. Lately getting inspired by @fortelabs tho)
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In my understanding, charity is assuming strongest interpretation, steelmanning is actively strengthening their argumen…
Replying to @taylorgrayson
@taylorgrayson @ChanaMessinger Charity is like, assuming that the thing they said is a true thing, and attempting to respond to what sort of true thing they would mean.
@taylorgrayson @ChanaMessinger (true in their ontology) = step 1 of steelmanning Step 2 is creating a version of their argument/position that they prefer over their own
@taylorgrayson @ChanaMessinger Strawman ➔ "that's not what I meant at all" [Tinman?] ➔ "yep, that's what I meant" Steelman ➔ "that is actually what I *meant* to mean"
@chenoehart I would be super into this except for the fact that I have a lot of other priorities... Oh—burning man costumes are like this for some ppl!
Retweeted @naval
"Nutrition has made no progress. It has discovered no stable facts. ... They [nutritionists] literally know nothing." https://t.…
Retweeted @michaelbyrne
Whatever you are doing right now, you are paying for it with your life.
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1983
@fortelabs @visakanv Ultimately glucose or some other chemical fuel is getting burned, but not much more than your basal metabolic rate necessarily.
@fortelabs @visakanv Regarding the "is it free?" Q: I suspect often the energy is in a sense released from an internal hold (related to "music → tension" idea)
@fortelabs @visakanv But holding that energy in internally can still mean it's getting burned; just cancelled out by some other part. See malcolmocean.com/2017/06/toward…
@fortelabs @visakanv Music: dancing energetically w/o a beat feels awkward, ∴ hard to get energy to do it. But w/ a beat, I'd feel uncomfortable if *not* dancing
@fortelabs @visakanv So a drop releases any tension/question I might have of whether now's the moment to move energetically. Like with:
Be the world you wish to change
@visakanv @fortelabs Yeah I sometimes get a huge burst of energy, prompting handstands or dancing, when I solve a satisfying technical problem. cf "happy dance"
@fortelabs @visakanv Thanks! Finally closing the loop on when I recommended B:CP / PCT to you months ago and you asked about takeaways...
@fortelabs @visakanv (I have lots more writing/thinking/modeling/learning on the subject that is still in the process of being written up. Excited to share!)
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@Malcolm_Ocean @visakanv Good stuff. Resolving these sorts of internal conflicts is the future of productivity. I've found s…
@visakanv @fortelabs Thanks @visakanv, I'll check it out! And yeah, you might dig the Perceptual Control Theory books too! They talk about blame dysfunctionality
@visakanv @fortelabs Two main 📖s: Long & technical: amazon.com/Behavior-Perce… Short & sweet: amazon.com/Making-Sense-B… Both are great introductions to the theory :)
Hoisting this tweet, as it links to two of the coolest books I've read in the last few years. See also the original thread for context.
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There's a road to hell paved with good intentions, and many shorter roads paved with bad intentions. Following good intent…
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At times nutrition feels more like an ideology than a science. All these diets. All these beliefs. Which one will lea…
@zooko @dianacbiggs @Eisenberg Absolutely! Tumblr is like a blog. Your stream is at zooko-or-whatever.tumblr.com
@ryan_nayr_ Yeah I have, but as he says he didn't grok the book; in particular he doesn't say *anything* about the last chapter, which is on Conflict
@ryan_nayr_ The parts about conflict are the most important aspects of the theory, and they would mostly apply even if the rest were found incoherent.
@ryan_nayr_ (This, b/c of the extent to which PCT *does* accurately describe behavior ∴ whether/not it's true, these other dynamics are also entailed)
@ryan_nayr_ Not necessarily! You might wish to change [the world you think you are] but that may not be who you actually are 😉
@chenoehart Wait, it isn't? I certainly want a Twitter to be confusion-work-friendly. Here's a playful recent example:
= why I'm an entrepreneur, not a politician.
Thread is cool but this tweet also just stands on its own.
Retweeted @suchaone
@amelapay This is super normal! Online learning is very much bottlenecked on engagement, not content. Making it sticky represents a huge opportunity.
Meta: Is it possible to reply to a tweet and have one's reply be a top-lvl tweet too? We used to put a . in front of the @, but now...
Retweeted @emareaf
Any words used often together develop a connotation and every connotation eventually becomes the denotation.
Thread · Designing moods into your work: duration calibration and method acting · 1 of 9 tweets
I'm getting more and more excited about this as I read what @fortelabs is writing.
@RyanHoliday This relates to an article by @fortelabs I'm halfway thru reading, which talks about conscious mood-generation: praxis.fortelabs.co/mood-as-extrap…
@tw Ahh, and I can retweet myself now without having to say anything extra. Riiiight. Okay great, this is super helpful, thanks!
Thread · Designing moods into your work: duration calibration and method acting · 6 of 9 tweets
@fortelabs Right now reading this article, which is sparking all sorts of interesting thoughts. It's about the power of moods: praxis.fortelabs.co/mood-as-extrap…
@fortelabs 3/ I've used strategies that were aligned with what he's talking about, but more on really abstract levels. (I guess this is a tweetstorm)
@fortelabs 4/ One abstract mood-enhancer: "Duration Calibration" spreddy. I time myself on subtasks (often <15min) Try it here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
@fortelabs 5/ Another: create names for your moods and try method-acting them. Inspired by @byudkowsky, here's mine: malcolmocean.com/2016/04/introd…
@fortelabs @byudkowsky 6/ What I'm digging about @fortelabs' approach is that he's building mood-consciousness into the work itself, so it's intrinsic.
@fortelabs @byudkowsky Moods article ↑ talks about doing it with note-taking Seems this tweet ↓ is about doing it with arbitrary projects
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9/ Here's an illustration of how we focus on results, while Toyota-style mgmt focuses on means
Replying to @jonnysweetfeet
@jonnysweetfeet I use a really garish color scheme (github.com/Benvie/JavaScr…) which was intended to just show off the syntax highlighter
@jonnysweetfeet They later removed it in favor of something prettier, but the same tech that shows off complex syntax detection ALSO reduces cog load
Thread · Designing moods into your work: duration calibration and method acting · 2 of 9 tweets
@fortelabs @byudkowsky article: "what other mood accelerators have you discovered in your own work?" Super simple: just sitting still until I feel excited to work
@fortelabs @byudkowsky b/c whatever I feel excited to work on is usually a thing I have lots of latent energy for. This ~= looking for fault lines for self-quakes!
@iangilman @CompliceGoals If you wanted to make this site even more slow web, you might remove the ability to load a new one by clicking, & slow the auto-refresh freq
@iangilman @CompliceGoals I've been keeping it open in a non-active workspace (linux) so I just happen upon it a few times/day. Loving your thotsam.
@fortelabs Agree, but at a certain point it might make sense to start calling them transhumans or posthumans.
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@fortelabs @byudkowsky article: "what other mood accelerators have you discovered in your own work?" Super simple: just…
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@fortelabs @byudkowsky b/c whatever I feel excited to work on is usually a thing I have lots of latent energy for. This…
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@Malcolm_Ocean @byudkowsky 👆this guy gets it
@vgr This seems kind of like a micro version of @fortelabs'
@vgr @fortelabs Relatedly, I've lately been experimenting w/ a "Captain's Log" = a running document, fresh each day, where I observe & decide out loud.
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@vgr @fortelabs Relatedly, I've lately been experimenting w/ a "Captain's Log" = a running document, fresh each day, whe…
Another gem from this ambient website iangilman.com/quotes/play/ @iangilman, if we're ever in the same city, can we float thoughts over lunch?
@iangilman (Was originally going to be "can I buy you coffee?", but I'm already sub'd on your patreon! Would still gladly pay for lunch though 😋)
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My latest ambient website plays random quotes for your contemplation: patreon.com/posts/11262632
@haideralmosawi Yeah! Kind of like self-coaching. Facilitates entering the state that @sebastmarsh calls "Reflective Control" (amazon.com/Gateless-Sebas…)
@Meaningness My pleasure! Gotcha. I would be happy to pass on any replies you want to make, in service of facilitating discussion about this 😀
@Meaningness (Many of the commenters may also be reachable via twitter or email if you want to talk with them directly, too.)
Retweeted @suchaone
@arvinja what if the point of learning things isn't to be correct but to form relationships
@iangilman Wow! Have just been enjoying your thoughts so far, but just tried it with kindle highlights and I'm very excited 😮
@iangilman Can I add a json that is an array of multiple books? Or other arbitrary sources? Prelim testing suggests not while keeping sources clear...
@ChielMuurling You mean u+1F3A7? 🎧 (I have the code memorized because I insert it in personal notes/todos as shorthand for "listen to")
@ChielMuurling I, on the other foot, dislike commuting anywhere, including on foot (commuting = "there&back"). But have been getting really into strolls!
@ChielMuurling Hmm, for me it's a toss-up between that and showers...
@ChielMuurling Re: productivity tools... I run one for a living, and we're in the process of launching a new landing page. Suggestions on places to launch?
@chenoehart @CompliceGoals @tferriss Just found this article, which reminded me of this conversation we were having. entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com/3-money-concep…
@djmicrobeads @sonyaellenmann @vgr Me too! It's very close to @CompliceGoals purple! Here's a CTA from complice.co
@ChielMuurling (Seems like you do stuff like this professionally? I won't ask you to do your job for free! Open to being pointed elsewhere or talking $)
@JoyIsWhat Great to e-meet you! Does SuccessIsWhat do interviews? I'd love to share my experience bootstrapping complice.co
@Chris_M_Harris Nice to e-meet you! Would EH be interested in interviewing me about my experience bootstrapping w/ complice.co ?
@Chris_M_Harris (It's kind of a neat story, because the business is a goal-tracking/productivity app, so I used it while I was building/marketing it)
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My 10-point plan for community action against systemic sexual abuse and harassment by VCs. Please RT. …
Replying to @sehurlburt
@sehurlburt I'm an exception haha: I don't like covering my whole face with stuff, but do quite enjoy putting on eyeliner or eyeshadow for parties etc
@fortelabs @ryan_nayr_ @byudkowsky Haha not yet! Definitely coming, but trying to find two friends to sign up with me so we can get the 3-for-$1200 price :P
Why haven't you solved the problem yet?
@zooko That's a really good point. I spent the last few years ignoring twitter, but now I'm back because there are people here I want to talk to!
@zooko Unfortunately many people on twitter seem to be mostly trying to make their follower count go up. Keeping my eye out for those who reply.
@ChielMuurling Sent... via which medium? Not seeing anything on twitter or in my email...
Retweeted @paulg
Idea: Divide old news stories into ones that mattered and didn't, and then use that to train a filter to use on current stories.
Retweeted @literalbanana
Having a fantastic conversation with @LucasCohen12 and he's like "So let's assume for the sake of discussion that the self exists..." 👌
You can turn almost anything into practice. And I'm not sure about the "almost".
@6nneore Well, I hope it's also worthwhile! Most worthwhile problems are difficult, but all many difficult problems aren't worthwhile :P
I put in contacts for the first time in awhile and HOLYSHIT the world is beautiful.
Me: "Hmm... I really could use a small cardboard box... like the ones Amazon sends. But I've thrown them out. What could I order that..."
@vgr Hmm... maybe you could use blockchain tech to sign certain essays as being part of the ribbonfarm network?
@atroche Ha, totally!
@ciphergoth Thiiiis. I just got back into twitter a few weeks ago, and the first thing I did was unfollow literally half of who I was following 1/
@ciphergoth My single criterion for who to follow: do I want to have conversations with this person? Noticed a few interesting things about that 2/
@ciphergoth One: many people with lots of followers get tons of ❤️s and 🔃s, but often zero 💬s. Seems like a chance to connect with interesting people 3/
@ciphergoth Two: some ppl *only* respond! Recent exp of ppl responding to me interestingly, but I didn't follow them back b/c they don't tweet toplvl 4/
@ciphergoth And three: Some ppl totally worth connecting with, but as @ciphergoth says, they mostly seem to tweet/follow to increase follower count 5/5
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@ciphergoth Thiiiis. I just got back into twitter a few weeks ago, and the first thing I did was unfollow literally half…
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@ciphergoth My single criterion for who to follow: do I want to have conversations with this person? Noticed a few inte…
Retweeted @ZackKorman
There are so many accounts on twitter that aren't bots but might as well be. It's stunning.
@alex_guzey Best part: the whole wreath scene probably took place naked.
@chenoehart Those new ones look gorgeous. Most brutalist architecture I know (eg on @UWaterloo campus) makes me think of smbc-comics.com/?id=3545
If you get paid $100/h to do a thing, but only do it 2-5 hours/month, are you a professional <thing-doer>? (RT if curious what ppl think)
@visakanv Yeah, if you're answering "depends", hit us up with a dependency that matters to you! For context, it could could be casual vs resume
categories twitter.com/sonyaellenmann…
Retweeted @byudkowsky
i'm making a visual morning schedule and this is my symbol for "upload daylies" #complice
@arundelo Yeah! Roughly matches how I think about it. "Professional-level" is a great term for the thing. Can provide $X value, may lack sales skills
Retweeted @1nceagain2zelda
My dad has kept this instruction from the Strawberry Shortcake dollhouse he built me since 1984
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That wholesome feeling when you think you are contributing but you really have no idea what you are doing. …
@raelifin @byudkowsky cf Juergen Schmidhuber's "Driven by Compression Progress, which suggests that interestingness is 1st deriv of beauty arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
Thread · Why editorial feedback triggers shame instead of useful revision
1/ It's not news to me that perception of feedback as criticism or judgment gets in the way of actually working with it effectively, but
2/ I'm getting a fantastic live example in my own mental system tonight. I'm reading comments from @vgr on my ribbonfarm longform essay, and
@vgr 3/ the valence of the feedback is swinging my mood/perceptions of the post way more than is reasonable: "I'm a genius" ↔ "I'm a fool"
@vgr 4/ These self-judgmental thoughts are clearly failing to parse useful meaning from the comments. They're a sort of fearful flinch response.
@vgr 5/ Could be an identity thing, about how much I'm identified with the post? →solution = keep my identity small? I think it's something else.
@vgr 6/ Another model is like... that parts of me think negative feedback is being said for the purpose of making me feel bad? Feels circular...
@vgr 7/ There's a quote in Passionate Marriage: "Why do you think you shouldn't be having the problems that you're having?" That feels relevant.
@vgr 8/ ie the self-judging part of me seems to think that the correct world state is for my essay to already be perfect, and otherwise = problem
@vgr 9/ but not just "problem"→"problem I shouldnt have" ie "problem that is a problem" Again circular. Not surprising for a kind of insanity tho
@vgr 10/ I think the problem {thing} involves some sort of fixation on the past. Problemy problem is not fixable because it's too late somehow.
@vgr 11/ So this stuck kind of problem isn't a problem-to-solve. It's a problem-to-feel-bad about. Hence shame response.
@vgr 12/ @visakanv has written about how the shame response gets in the way of actually seeing the situation clearly: medium.com/@visakanv/the-…
@vgr @visakanv 13/ Anyway, pragmatically speaking, what cognitive shift do I need to do in order to be able to effectively edit my essay?
@vgr @visakanv 14/ Seems main thing is to focus on: "you have an editor because it was *part of the plan* for the essay to not be perfect yet"
@vgr @visakanv 15/ ofc usually your problem isn't literally part of plan. but it seems a problem-unproblemifying mindset still outperfs a problemifying one
@vgr @visakanv Yeah, that's the plan now 😉 This demon just needed exorcising first.🐙
@vgr @visakanv (After some work) One thing that's working is staying focused on really feeling my desire for the ultimate essay; whetting appetite to write
Just completed a 4.11 km run with @Runkeeper. Check it out! rnkpr.com/agrbwos #Runkeeper
Great answers to this poll so far, keep 'em coming. We're gonna finally solve this thing.
@ryan_nayr_ Reading more about Perceptual Control Theory will help with this. Negative feedback = a gap to close / a diff between desire & perception
@ryan_nayr_ Negative feedback is necessary to get *closer* to something on purpose. Positive feedback just says "more of X" but can't adjust its aim.
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@ryan_nayr_ Negative feedback is necessary to get *closer* to something on purpose. Positive feedback just says "more o…
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One under-appreciated thing about progress in science & tech is it creates new metaphors which can change how we see the…
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Behold! Tools to try when stuck problem solving or ideating. Useful in physical poster form? How to improve it?https://t.co/…
@garybasin Poster could be good. Could also work well with a "see one thing at a time" system, sort of like the "oblique strategies" technique.
@garybasin Re: the latter, I've recently been playing a bunch with @iangilman's ambient quotes site. And I ported your thing! iangilman.com/quotes/play/?h…
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It's a time-stamped, geo-stamped collective record of millions of ppl's thoughts twitter.com/mims/status/88…
Delighted to have discovered @wgalyean and @coyotespike via @garybasin's timeline—particularly w/ Tribe discussion. I've read it & agree: 💯
@wgalyean @coyotespike @garybasin (To find the threads I'm talking about, click this tweet, then both scroll up & click through to @coyotespikes') twitter.com/wgalyean/statu…
@ryan_nayr_ @coyotespike @wgalyean Heh, the book is quite short. Took me only about 2h... so very doable in one day.
@garybasin @iangilman Your use of "open mode" made me suspect that you and Romeo were hanging out haha. Deck of cards is simplest MVP for one-at-a-time.
@garybasin Just saw & enjoyed your twitter bio, and it made me think you might appreciate this post of mine: malcolmocean.com/2014/11/breath…
@JustEsrafel I just followed you because of this tweet. I'm looking to learn and have high quality conversations on twitter 🙂 Mistakes are necessary🙃
I made a new personality test. Only has one question. Results speak for themselves. Ready? ❓: Free as in _____________
"y'all" is such a youseful word
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I don't think the headers for non-quantitative comment columns in my revenue planning spreadsheet are... normal …
Also shoutout to @EvanBThomas for causing me to know about corpus.byu.edu/coca/, which generated lots of "free ____" ideas
Replying to @sehurlburt
@sehurlburt "Let's talk about compression while we decompress."
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How do you couch metaphorical spinach-in-teeth sightings, applied to personalities? Translated: How do you solicit honest fee…
Retweeted @paulg
You can fool investors, but you can't fool customers.
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@Malcolm_Ocean @vgr A majority of us don't know how/when/whom to give feedback to
@iangilman Haven't so far, but it seems likely that I will at some point! I'll message you if so 🙃 (On my end, I'm mostly in Canada, sometimes ~SF)
@iangilman (Took me several days to reply because my jaw broke when it dropped when I realized you were RG's son.) Your "might appreciate" = spot on!
@iangilman Yeah, I'm part of a project whose aim is to create a scalable Planetary Era culture. That's actually one of the ways that we talk about it.
Replying to @atakanyz
@atakanyz @KevinSimler You might appreciate this article by @vgr on antifragility in the context of knowledge / epistemology / @BlueOrigin mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/gra…
Replying to @millsbaker
@millsbaker @sarahdoingthing Ugh, "Your very tools turn to bullshit in your hands" <= that.
Retweeted @TimothyChutes
A website that lets you place bets on whether or not a study gets reproduced.
@AnkurRSharma I'll be in SF for much of August!
@KevinSimler Learning to work with people (myself and others) without enacting blame/judgment/conflict: malcolmocean.com/2017/06/toward… & malcolmocean.com/2017/07/transc…
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@KevinSimler Learning to work with people (myself and others) without enacting blame/judgment/conflict: …
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@literalbanana GOD: "Why are your atheist kids in heaven? Haha well that's a funny story, I'd explain it to you but it…
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@rdoddala @vgr True. In many ways, Nuzzel seems the only thing Twitter is good at...shame though...
Replying to @EvanBThomas
@EvanBThomas Most of the people I interact with on twitter seem to be #ribbonfarm-adjacent. There seems to be a little community of practice.
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T- vs semicolon-shaped people: am I unusual in working both ways? T- academic & biz work; Meaningness is a semicolon https…
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This Amazon bot is generating thousands of phone cases from random photos, and it's amazing. (via @rjurney) …
Internal Conflict Knot Awareness Committee
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Is there a finance term meaning "opposite of leverage"? Insurance maybe? (in sense that you own an asset "more" than 100% by insur…
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I wonder how many happiness techniques would work but are never tested bc they're not virtuous (eg “List ways you're better…
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Optionality is addictive (Ht @BrentBeshore ) thecrimson.com/article/2017/5…
Resonates a bunch with @KevinSimler's essay on identity, "prickles and goo" (a phrase from Alan Watts) meltingasphalt.com/prickles-and-g…
@visakanv I've got something kinda similar going on! Thinking I'll try being still for a little bit and seeing what attracts me :)
@chenoehart @FakePaperclips @vgr Even though only partially-integrated human superorganisms are possible atm, I have to say that from experience they're pretty great!
Article on how Amazon seems to be ignoring scammers hacking their charts, to the detriment of... basically everyone davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/sca…
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18/ Branding is a promise that you have skin in the game.
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44 / If you try to conform to each person you meet, you gather a large fixed cost of mixed identities.
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@csallen your css/js isn't loading
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This tome of 1800 pages is life altering. If you read a single #book this year, let this be the one. Thanks for writing it…
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Politics is so confrontational now. I miss the old days, when we settled our differences with *raises glasses to look at…
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A basic flowchart of how fear creates more violence around you
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Outrage is society’s immune system protecting shared values. Social media uniquely promotes outrage. We have a social autoimm…
Having trouble signing up for @fortelabs course on @teachable. Have tried to pay 3 times and keep getting redirected to this non-url:
@fortelabs @teachable (Twice with credit card, once with Paypal. I'm a bit worried about possibly having triple-paid at this point.)
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Stochastic deadline: Sense of a looming deadline but you don't actually have one, just an "unsustainable, something's gotta give"…
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17/ Nap Drink coffee Schedule every 10 minute increment Make no appointments Think big Pay attention to small details. Avoi…
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This is how 1=2. How the same, is seen differently How life makes markets, makes war. *(an optimist might see...a reunion)…
@wolfejosh @jhreha ONLY THE TRUE MESSIAH would deny his divinity!
@teachable I tried opening a ticket on the site, but all Open A Ticket links just took me back to Knowledge Base search. Pretty frustrating 😒
@teachable Seems like Tiago's team is in touch with you now though, so I'm coordinating with them.
@ciphergoth @ptraughber @michaelblume Really great cover of that song: youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs…
Retweeted @superlativeish
One man's modus pwnens is another man's modus trollens.
Currently finding it easier to edit an essay on my phone than computer. Seems lower stakes somehow, and it's easier to focus on each section
"If you wake up every day with the same damn list, that's a recipe for killing your motivation." — @fortelabs on BASB course
Retweeted @zwsexton
"A project without a goal hobby. A goal without a project is a dream." - @fortelabs
Overheard: "I don't know how to formulate a self so that it's transcendent..." (This is something I overheard myself say 😉)
Also the only lists that merit having 50 items in them are music playlists. Anything else and it needs more organization.
@TaylorPearsonMe Not sure what to recommend on genetic algorithms, but for thinking about evolution more generally, this LW Seq is 💯 lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien…
@TaylorPearsonMe It really makes clear the diff betw evolution as purposeful vs "the fact that you'll tend to find more of things that survive & reproduce"
Retweeted @GretchenAMcC
Today in surprisingly effective #amwriting techniques: unblock your serious nonfiction manuscript by drafting it as a fre…
51% on yes. That's a majority, folks! But it seems my uncertainty on this was pretty warranted. (63 votes)
Replying to @jtth
@jtth @paraschopra Hm? No koolaid involved, just a ton of powerful thinking tools.
Peak fidget spinner: they're being sold at a lingerie store.
@juliagalef I made a simulation of this because I wanted to play with it. My intuitions mostly predicted the behavior, except for the reshuffling.
@juliagalef Based on the article, I added better tracking for who has been broke. You can watch them get back above 100 & beyond codepen.io/MalcolmOcean/p…
@juliagalef Interesting possible psychological effects of this being "people/dollars", rather than say "machines/tokens". Taps into fairness notions
@juliagalef Now several of wealthiest "people" were once completely broke! (black outline) (This doesn't mean anything; it's a contrived game 😛)
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A math puzzle with a counterintuitive result (but simple explanation): quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/whe…
@michael_nielsen @KevinSimler @fortelabs @unfinishthought Aha, excellent. This was helpful fodder for the ribbonfarm longform essay I'm working on for the course right now! tyty :)
I'm finding Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon very familiar after reading @Meaningness's work. Yet also fresh and insightful :)
@Meaningness I vaguely knew this & have come to appreciate it much more now! Fascinating to begin to see meaningness.com as a translation piece
@Meaningness I would be interested to hear now more precisely what you're attempting to do differently. One piece seems STEM-accessibility. What else?
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Watch this police officer accidentally record himself in the midst of faking a crime scene
@robinhanson Seems it also has things to do with antenna length and possibly also the radio-band used: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_fiel… But there's this:
@ChanaMessinger @huffakingit Or maybe you're post-post-rat ;)
Ooh, I know this one! Can show up with content-level obstacles or just process-level things like "I can't write until I clean my desk first"
@Meaningness Gotcha. Yeah, I've found your coverage of countercultures, subcultures, atomism etc to be very helpful context-setting for where we are now.
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I read this brilliance on race and couldnt help thinking the world could really use Fran Lebowitz blogging or tweeting or so…
Just found an infidelity support group on fb. Wondering how many people have found their spouses in there...
I spend more time focused on whether or not there'll be a future at all. P(me in books | future) ~= 5% ? P(future) = 20% ? Hard to say.
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a reminder: if inexperienced creators are using your tool to churn out loads of half-baked garbage, your tool is a phenom…
Whew, I was worried. This is very reassuring to hear.
@visakanv "break free from the affair" ...I don't think so. It's for people who are already cheating and want to stop.
@StefanoZorzi + a vague sense of "finally I can invest in cool new companies, not just big name stocks". Not wise, per se, but newly possible.
Come work with me in this virtual #pomodoro 🍅 #coworking room: complice.co/room/open (I'll be there for the next several hours 😀)
@actionablebooks Huh, reminds me of Perceptual Control Theory, where in order to set a reference level for anything, 1st have to notice the dimension itself
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For the mind to get familiar with joy, 1st it has to notice it. So we train the mind to perceive thin slices of joy: h…
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@wgalyean Post a screenshot of what your current profile looks like though, for posterity.
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@wgalyean You might enjoy my team's self-description: complice.co/about-the-team Honesty emerges from continued same-sidedness.
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Damn. (by @natalieshapero)
Who cares if one more light goes out? Well, I do.
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You think about things by analogy to things around you, so, it's important to be surrounded by rich structures.
Sleep is good but only hacking 8h/day seems like a waste of flow. Get full sleep (even nap!) but hack the other 16h: malcolmocean.com/2014/07/maniac… twitter.com/sehurlburt/sta…
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7/ Maintaining alignment is hard bec it's like putting an orange, a baseball bat, a number, and a feeling in alphabetical or…
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1/ Tasks lead to projects, projects lead to goals, goals lead to visions. Defining these is hard though bec they are optimiz…
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@sehurlburt Yeah, I read your second tweet and noted that. It's a good point, although also... yeah. I think the world needs both.
@sehurlburt My relationship with hackathons is primarily from the productivity angle, so my thoughts tend towards maximizing flow for participants...
@sehurlburt I once cohosted an event that was basically a weeklong hackathon on personal projs. Aim: intense but sustainable. also hard w/ kids/jobs/etc
@sehurlburt I'm now imagining a version that also has a daycare on-site for the week... it's actually a pretty neat concept—could be even higher value!
@sehurlburt At any rate: very much with-you in that if hosting a competition, you need to think: what kind of playing field do you want to make? level?
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@jtth @sehurlburt Proof by construction? "All-day flow" was my experience of my maniac work weekends. I just got up and coded all day and it was glorious.
@jtth @sehurlburt (I mean I realize that my experience of that isn't proof from your perspective. I guess my point is that I certainly think it exists)
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@BenjaminMosior A friend of mine is leveraging that mindset to finding a job: "goal = apply to 100 jobs". Makes it easy to decline not-so-great-fits.
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It wants to give you a tiny shimmering rainbow hug!! twitter.com/WayneMaddison/…
singing telegram delivered by drone
@alexeyguzey There isn't a good textbook for it per se, but I highly recommend Robert Kegan's work, which extends into adult developmental psychology!
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This amazing thing came up in my Oblique Strategies.
Complice is the productivity app I run. You don't really need to know much about it to think of ideas necessarily though 😛
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@GKhuyen @danlistensto @vgr Another frame for y-axis could be extent to which you're directly controlling what's coming out: top = too much control bottom = not enough
@GKhuyen @danlistensto @vgr Extending 💩 metaphor, sometimes what feels like constipation is actually excess muscle tension. Focusing on relaxing improves "throughput".
@GKhuyen @danlistensto @vgr This is kind of what I was getting at here: ~= If my work is feeling constipated, it might be mental tension: relax
@GKhuyen @danlistensto @vgr If there's tension (force) without movement, that implies some sort of conflict: another force opposing. So try deescalation.
@GKhuyen @danlistensto @vgr Maybe your 2x2 is actually sort of a 45° rotation of this one I made:
@2centjubilee So glad you asked. Here's a spreadsheet ;) The main key differences is that it's focused on goals, not tasks, and a fresh list every day.
@2centjubilee Yeah, but the number is less about the products themselves and more about the extent to which the landing pages rmphasize those features.
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I have decided to adopt modal realism, mainly because it makes life way more entertaining if you act like it is true https://t.co/…
@vgr When I did karate (shotokan, in Canada) I think the tournament sparring had one black, one red belt. Red isn't part of the sequence.
@journeyofray Most of us who *can* work 4h/week still don't! Tim included. Still have to spend your 168h/week somehow, & meaningful work is a good how :)
@vgr first thought was "pons asinorum"
"Can you understand what this note is, just from reading the highlights? Absolutely not. But you can see if it's relevant." @fortelabs #BaSB
"P.A.R.A: The KonMari method for your digital life," says @fortelabs, who regularly deletes @evernote notes that don't spark joy in his life
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@fortelabs Practical sense-making strategies that are productive themselves.
@robinhanson @DocMVanNostrand In particular, @KevinSimler is happy it has his name on it ;) (in all seriousness, awesome cover)
There are so many weird corners of twitter, so few steps away from (my) normal. It seems to be a kind of hyperbolic space...
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Most days tend to be similar. What would your life be like after hundreds of days like today? blog.complice.co/post/163274697… ht…
@alexeyguzey In Over Our Heads is probably the one to go for. The Evolving Self is more textbook-like, in that it's highly dense & challenging to read 😛
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Why do people google words? microsoft.com/en-us/research… Almost never for pronunciation, though that's what search-engine-resu…
I'm super excited for this.
Thread · Reliability and validity data for the Subject-Object Interview · 1 of 7 tweets
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey I think the studies quoted in Guide to the Subject Object Interview conclude good inter-rater and test-retest reliability. Will grab tmro!
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Yeah, typesetting among worst I've seen :-/ My guess is the book was created for an academic context, never really intended to be published.
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@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey First four photos on inter-rater reliability (one to come)
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Final photo on inter-rater reliability.
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Test-retest reliability.
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Inter-item consistency. (ie consistency given essentially different topics etc interviewed about)
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Validity. Final paragraphs note an in-progress longitudinal study, which should have much more progress by now. Curious about its status...
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Alexey also asked for "(2) predictive power over something interesting?" I don't know any stats, but I haven't looked. Anyone else?
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@Malcolm_Ocean @garybasin @alexeyguzey I’m frustrated by quality of science on this stuff, because I think it’s *probably*…
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Totally with you. And like, "right" not in the sense of "perfect", but in the provisional still-to-be-honed sense that science always has.
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey As opposed to an attitude where the science isn't just externally important, but critical for navigating internally as well.
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey And Kegan is sort of Kohlberg + [Subject Object ness]. It's an interesting question how one might test the SO concept itself!
Okay, Madness by @Muse and Heptapod B by @JohannJohannss *totally* have a thing going on. Mm m m m m ma wa
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey I tried to kind of abstract it out here: malcolmocean.com/2014/10/subjec…
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey Questions include: • is S-O Notation a good way to describe ppl's mental relationships? • does it apply to Kohlberg stages etc?
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey +Qs • what else does S-O notation apply to? • what factors nurture (/block) S-O shifts? • how can you tell if something has S-O structure?
@Meaningness @garybasin @alexeyguzey ...and propose experiments that others could perform, perhaps? Or is that part of how we've ended up with the current meh-quality stuff?
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It's actually good if your knowledge mgmt system has leaks, so there's constant demand for replenishment and u have to use i…
@fortelabs cf Leonard Cohen ♪ "There is a crack in everything... it's how the light gets in" ♫
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the final boss of twitter is a disgusted and disappointed tulpa of pre-twitter you
@fortelabs I'm very interested in talking about this thinking structure but not sure I've gotten a sense of the underlying question you're considering
@fortelabs Ahh, yes. Probably related to this:
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Michael & I will likely discuss meditation for STEM folks, Tantra & Dzogchen, fraying belief systems... Send him Qs! https…
@allnick Removed! Sorry about that.
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Here is how it's going to be forever. time = t: "Things are strange and bad." time = t + 1: "Hold my beer."
Am now wondering "What are the physics of stop-motion animation?"
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@wgalyean @walkerdavide I find "put the phone away from bed" strategy actually works *best* when co-sleeping, since I am way more alert to need to turn it off asap
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Problem #3: I struggle with being satisfied with my productivity. Solution: complice.co/?og=f3 …
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@MattBochneak @BenedictEvans @bcYOUNGbruh @tfadell Good points. I still find myself concerned that it won't be as fast/attentionless as physical buttons though. Rant: malcolmocean.com/2015/12/interf…
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@forewit You might resonate with this rant of mine: malcolmocean.com/2015/12/interf…
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Trust is falling. Why? And how can we fix it? My interactive guide to the game theory of trust is now OUT! 👉 https://t.co…
@AQuinn_USA Yeah, you can kind of adapt it to anything you want to track over time, really. Lmk what you come up with 😄
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Thread. Court costs as a mechanism to conduct stealth opex slavery after capex slavery was outlawed. 😐 twitter.com/yonatanzunger/…
@GretchenAMcC You need to try Person Do Thing: play.google.com/store/apps/det…