@visakanv @ryan_nayr_ Ah. Well, lemme rephrase my question then: If being productive feels so good, why haven't we solved the general productivity problem yet?
August 2017
@visakanv @ryan_nayr_ For some defns of "feels gd" Anyway, yes, general productivity problem is intertwingled with other things, but still important open question
Replying to @phonologist
@shapkaa @GretchenAMcC I would follow a "Linguists Utter Weird Sentences" twitter account, just sayin' 😜
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There's a White House payroll employee right now battling with a "termination date value cannot be smaller than start date…
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How can you stand living in a society where prisoners who escape using peanut butter are re-imprisoned when caught? https:…
each word is at least one mental move
How do you show yourself love? Me, I crossfade when switching music playlists.
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Here's the only productivity tip you'll ever need: do the most important thing first each day. Sounds simple. No one does…
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
@james_clear Totally agreed. Here's an article I wrote on how to actually make it happen: blog.complice.co/post/121559734…
@juliagalef @meganlabrecque @jryangolden @fffjayare Facebook caches share titles/imgs, so unless they pushed a button to cause it to refresh, it might just be the old thing. But I'm not sure!
TFW you push a button and your phone screen changes at exactly the moment your eyes saccade, and you think nothing changed.
Me: Ugh, kinda tired, probably time for bed. I wanna check a thing on my phone tho. Ok, fine, I'll just open the oblique strategies app. Oic
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@GKhuyen @vgr @Malcolm_Ocean Some people are doing great stuff under the rubric “metamodernism.” @SethAbramson has a good…
@Meaningness @GKhuyen @vgr @SethAbramson Wow that article is *awesome*. I had sensed a bunch of the pieces therein, but hadn't noticed others nor put them together like that! Thanks
The challenge of being in conflict with yourself.
Currently at @ncasenmare's talk at @longnow longnow.org/seminars/02017… Talk is called "Seeing Whole Systems", and Nicky just noted "you can't"
@ncasenmare @longnow "Maps are not useful despite being simplified. They're useful *because* they're simplified."
@ncasenmare @longnow "The Dragon of Complexity is a hydra." - @ncasenmare
@ncasenmare @longnow Three kinds of feedback loops: - reinforcing (better name than positive) - balancing (negative) - chaos
@ncasenmare @longnow Prediction is intractable with even slightly complex systems, but you can still improve performance by paying attn & creating own fdbk loops
@ncasenmare @longnow Important concept of attractors: in a given landscape, with a given set of forcing functions, what states are stable?
@ncasenmare @longnow Metaphor: ball on surface, affected by force of gravity. "Change the hills, by fighting loops with loops."
@ncasenmare @longnow "Peace is not the mere absence of war. Health is not mere absence of disease." Meditate on relationship between this and system stability.
@ncasenmare @longnow "When a bunch of diff parts come together to form something unexpected, that's emergence. Which is jargon. Words are terrible." @ncasenmare
@ncasenmare @longnow Emergence requires: 1. reinforcing loops 2. balancing loops 3. chaos 4. dense networks 1 & 2 = selection 3 & 4 = variation = evolution
@ncasenmare @longnow ~"Think of chaos as fuel. If we're not careful, it can burn us up, but if we harness it..."
@ncasenmare @longnow "Can we slay the dragon of complexity? No, but we can see the dragon, and then we can learn to play with the dragon."
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@ncasenmare @longnow "Can we slay the dragon of complexity? No, but we can see the dragon, and then we can learn to play…
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The reality is, a vanilla soy latte is a type of three-bean soup.
@fortelabs No you (can)^t
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1/ Our minds are good at finding paths to a goal once we have a goal in mind
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I hear @mealsquares are perfect for dipping in in a tall room-temp glass of @soylent, @ibogost
Filling out profile for EA Global... What's my "industry"? ... I see a dozen barely-relevant options. Wait, I can choose "think tank"?! 🤔🛢
Retweeted @juliagalef
Sometimes Ben Franklin really resented being asked to write letters of introduction:
Retweeted @vgr
Whenever you see the phrase "science says..." substitute "p-value fisherman says..."
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New post by @Malcolm_Ocean Questions are Not Just For Asking ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/10/que…
Replying to @os_viraj
@VirajSinha eh, cranium ~= vat
<recent 🧠→🎆> Behavior: The Control of Perception @Meaningness Intro to General Systems Thinking Rationality A-Z In Over Our Heads by Kegan twitter.com/miss_print/sta…
@isisAnchalee Caffeine is totally a drug! An awesome drug. Well, with reinforcing usage, not antagonistic usage. See more here: arvindn.livejournal.com/57651.html
@isisAnchalee I might recommend supplementing some L-theanine to help your system stabilize though :)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@isisAnchalee Caffeine is totally a drug! An awesome drug. Well, with reinforcing usage, not antagonistic usage. See m…
#DesignFails Interfaces that let you input multi-line text... ...but then display it without line breaks. CSS fix: white-space: pre-wrap
Replying to @stefanobernardi
@stefanobernardi @StefanoZorzi Nah, effective acting without believing is remarkably possible!
@KevinSimler @stefanobernardi @StefanoZorzi I haven't written up a coherent explanation, but it's a mix of stuff from Complexity Thinking and stuff from Perceptual Control Theory.
@KevinSimler @stefanobernardi @StefanoZorzi The basic jist is ~ "instead of having beliefs *about* things, pay really close attention to how the system responds to perturbations"
@KevinSimler @stefanobernardi @StefanoZorzi On reflection, this may be much harder to do as a VC than an entrepreneur, say, so SB's specific point above may still stand.
My pomodoro beeminder no longer enforces a rate, but seems I go thru distinct phases of very consistent pomo rates! beeminder.com/m/pomodoro
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28/ If you’re like me, you usually walk out of buffets feeling a combination of stomach aches and self-loathing...
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5/ I’d like to write a lot about whatever I find interesting but I’d also like for my blog to grow fast.
Tweetstorm of the week: (on optionality, choices, uncertainty, tradeoffs)
BART ad for @Qualcomm (they make smartphone network tech) Unsure what the goal of the ad is... new employees? Investors? Biz partnerships?
@Qualcomm And like, here I am tweeting about it, so they're getting more exposure, but still: to what end?
@Meaningness @ribbonfarm Heh, yeah, it's kind of a subtle thing. I'm curious if this bit resonates for you / seems relevant, now that you've read the post:
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Frequently v imp to seek other perespectives and overcome your blind spots
Would be nice if internet radio services had an explicit button for "I like this song but it doesn't belong in this radio". Beyond just ⏭
@tristanharris Dan Greene and I came up with came up with a term for the cause we were talking about today: "environMentalism"
#songidea: parody of @amandapalmer's Map of Tasmania that's about the sun eclipsing, and she's all "Showing off my path of totality"
@ryan_nayr_ Thanks Ryan! What stood out to you? Or what stuck around, is maybe the question :P
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Serious spirituality is basically working through deferred pain to-do list so you are free to give up coupled blindnesses you're a…
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You become a product of the pressures you allow to shape you.
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@ryan_nayr_ @Malcolm_Ocean A good question to hold:
@ryan_nayr_ Cool! I had a great conversation with @hyponymous at #EAGlobalSF17 this weekend about the value of holding questions in our interactions :)
@visakanv @ryan_nayr_ Another great related one: "Assuming that right now I'm practicing a skill: what am I practicing?"
@visakanv Aww yeah I love this. I use ubuntu with 4 spaces in a 2x2 grid and a second monitor mounted above my laptop. I have so many position hotkeys
@visakanv My window movements are actually isomorphic to this 4D version of 2048 (warning: GAME THAT MAY TAKE SEVERAL HOURS) huonw.github.io/2048-4D/
@fchollet Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it doesn't make sense ;) If it did make sense, what sort of sense would it make?
TIL if you don't have the Lyft app you can still flag down a driver by putting your finger and thumb in an L shape on your forehead
@KevinSimler @ctbeiser I'd love to integrate this with @CompliceGoals! We have an API that lets you fetch next action as json! I don't have a mac though...
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@visakanv @ryan_nayr_ Another great related one: "Assuming that right now I'm practicing a skill: what am I practicing?"
@garybasin Damnit Gary, ruining my trolling :P Maybe delivery would have been better with "protip" instead of "TILL" though
Retweeted @ctbeiser
any question of form “If X, should you do Y or Z” is better as “Given X, when should you do Y vs Z?” “If X, does Y?” → “If X…
Retweeted @vgr
Free speech, social justice... these are questions to hodl (🙂), not "answer" ht @Malcolm_Ocean ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/10/que…
Retweeted @ESYudkowsky
Let's face it: the past was a terrible, awful, immoral place. Maybe we should only have statues in honor of the future.
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There are few things that are more disheartening. If you think even technology can't permanently improve the human condition,…
@vgr I think more holding of these Qs would mean more coherent pragmatic philosophies b/c people wouldn't forget to point the Qs at own behavior
Replying to @sehurlburt
@sehurlburt Content-level: @CompliceGoals is a productivity system that's based on goals instead of tasks & freshness instead of exhaustiveness.
@DellAnnaLuca @garybasin Yeah, @ncasenmare recently pointed out that in complex systems many things are both cause and effect.
@sehurlburt @CompliceGoals Meta-level: For something like this, pick a concept people already have, then apply a short diff. Common form is X for Y, eg "Uber for dogs"
@timescanner @raelifin & @byudkowsky, this reminded me of part of our conversation on Tuesday.
@DellAnnaLuca @garybasin Have you checked out Perceptual Control Theory? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptua… Has a lot to say about how cognitive systems hold things constant.
@sehurlburt @CompliceGoals Seeing @cullophid's, I'm noticing I left out a bit of "value". New take: Complice helps you achieve your goals instead of just doing tasks.
Replying to @cullophid
@cullophid @sehurlburt @CompliceGoals Yeah, our team (of two) spent a ton of time on this the past few months and created a new landing page: complice.co
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That which can be destroyed by the truth will sooner or later blow up in your face. Often wiser to do it under controlled…
Not *after* you keep scrolling through your feed. Right now. You don't have to, but consider yourself invited :P
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14/ Whatever your coping strategy as a historically situated ape looking for meaning in aging rivers of blood flowing past scabs/w…
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