@psobot My Nexus 5X has been weirdly slow the last few days. Dunno why. Probably fixable (my situ) with a factory reset or something.
October 2017
Retweeted @ctbeiser
Paradoxically, the refrain of “This is not normal” is a means to maintain a veneer that we’re not in the midst of structural…
@ESYudkowsky @robinhanson Seems related to this somehow: (they showed up adjacently in my feed)
Replying to @GKhuyen
@GKhuyen @Meaningness Hm, these mostly feel like false dichotomies or something. Like OODA loop includes both Observe & Act. Purpose gives Meaning, etc.
Retweeted @fortelabs
1) This is how the mechanics of personal growth works, as far as I can tell
@fortelabs @garybasin Ha, was about to say "sounds like samskaras" :P Also: a good book, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationship, uses "grievance" to point at this.
@fortelabs @garybasin Also cool, b/c connected with the concept of grief: a grievance is essentially a grief that wasn't digested and has fermented and festered.
Replying to @sehurlburt
@sehurlburt I would be into that if it still had haptic feedback somehow (and not just vibration, which incidentally is *not* silent)
@nevolution @fortelabs Weird tip: instead of hard line breaks, use <span style="display: inline-block">. It'll break around that phrase first, then with if necessy
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin Photos were a bit weird on mobile... Just one after another with very little context.
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin I would also put another newsletter subscribe button before them, maybe with a testimonial from someone about how much they like it
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin But you wanted copy fdbk!
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin Opening line feels accurate but bland & abstract. That's a very large category, even if others in it brand differently. What's your flavor?
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 1/ Something more concrete might be sthg like "Taylorism was a philosophy of work that revolutionized physical labor. But now it's outdated.
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 2/ ...hell, it's automated. Forte Labs has a new philosophy that is revolutionizing knowledge work"
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 3/ Then have a link to your (awesome) Manifesto. Don't be afraid to lead people away from the homepage if it means them getting to know you!
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 4/ You only want people to click it if they're the kind of people who like manifestos though. Hopefully people will self-select?
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 5/ Obviously you want "knowledge work(er)" there somewhere. Can you be more specific about which KWs you're targeting? It's a big category!
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 6/ For instance, maybe "KWs who are fed up w current info-mgmt systems", or "KWs who believe in human-centered work" etc etc.
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 7/ If you're not sure, think about which kinds of knowledge workers you feel are *not* receptive to your message. What do they lack already?
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin new thread! B1/ Services section feels a little oddly placed. If such sales are a main goal, it's maybe low. If not, try a diff CTA there
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin B2/ Important Q of how people go about hiring you. What causes them to know what you offer? What convinces them to buy? Ask past clients :)
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin B3/ I suspect almost everybody who buys services has first experienced your work in some other form--writing, course, podcast.
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin B4/ Not totally sure what the implications are of that though. Tried to say "if that's true..." then realized my arg could go either way.
Retweeted @fortelabs
@Malcolm_Ocean @alexbaldwin "You know Taylorism. Now get ready for Tiagoism!"
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin True. At any rate, while I like the alternative I wrote, it also feels too abstract to me. Ah, but importantly says "we are new paradigm"
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin That's the key. Otherwise your opener (w img) seems more apropos for DavidSeah's Printable CEO: ie maybe you mostly design paper-based tools
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin But when I read your stuff I was like "This guy could be the next @gtdguy." (which is sthg coming from me, who has thought so of myself 😝)
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin @gtdguy I think that's how you want to position yourself. Maybe you don't even want to use the royal "we" on your homepage. Struck me as odd, tbh
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin Huh, say more? Patronized in what sense?
@KevinSimler @ciphergoth Yep. I make a class for it, called "unwrap", so semantics are clear. Video demo!
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin 8/ Oh, and note that it's possible to be very confused about this! With @CompliceGoals, we thought to target ppl who were sick of GTD, but
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin @CompliceGoals 9/ when we looked at user survey data, almost all ppl who mentioned GTD were enthusiastic about it and said it was synergistic w/ Complice.
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin @CompliceGoals 10/ Good thing we checked! We then scrapped our plan for the day and set out to come up with a totally different persona.
@KevinSimler @ciphergoth Ahh, yeah, it would :-/ So one needs to be careful. I think I once had a title divided into four, so it would go ABCD ↓ AB CD ↓ A B C D
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin On mobile it's just a wall of photos for like 10 scrolls. Doesn't gallerify ∴ feels weird. Not sure what to do, given squarespace.
@visakanv @fortelabs @alexbaldwin @gtdguy Ahh, pros n cons. Also the possibility of doing both brands in parallel. I'm now thinking of musicians/bands, eg "Paul McCartney and Wings"
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin Ahh. Also "Top 30" lists. Ridiculous. What you need is 1. Ask me, it's the pomodoro technique. Best combo of simple and maybe-high-impact.
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin (To be clear, what I mean is that such lists cause inaction. One tip until you've given it a serious shot. *Then* tip #2.)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@fortelabs @alexbaldwin Ahh. Also "Top 30" lists. Ridiculous. What you need is 1. Ask me, it's the pomodoro technique.…
This is a good tweetstorm: ~"not checking @snopes before retweeting is like not washing our hands. Not professional misconduct, just gross."
Retweeted @Grognor
smh if you measure your "productivity" with anything other than how much less doomed the human race is after you've put in you…
Retweeted @garybasin
1/ Curiosity is a trait that I value and aspire to embody. And yet I rarely hear about how to do so
@BiomedBrat @JennaMarcusson I think they used to feature discussions on each video. Which they still have, but it would be nice if *that* were emphasized post-watch.
Retweeted @FPallopides
One long In Soviet Russia joke, by @Malcolm_Ocean: ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/10/que…
Retweeted @slatestarcodex
Culture ship names for hurricanes. Somebody make this happen.
@fortelabs @AnkurRSharma Oh man, intermittent, reinforcing use of caffeine is freaking awesome. I wrote up some of my experience with it at malcolmocean.com/experiments/
@AnkurRSharma @fortelabs Well pick a thing and come work with me here and before you get lost into endless scrolling! complice.co/room/caffeine
Replying to @wgalyean
@wgalyean I asked on fb "What's a song that you've really enjoyed having stuck in your head?" Replace yours with one of these? facebook.com/malcolmocean/p…
Replying to @wgalyean
@wgalyean Umm... list is long and not dense, but I'll paste a handful: 1812 Overture, finale. Yes - Roundabout "Good to Be Alive" by Andy Grammer
@wgalyean Africa by Toto Starmachine2000 "Soul with a Capital S" by Tower of Power Black Tables - Other Lives kiss from a rose Creo - Sphere
@AnkurRSharma @fortelabs Uhhh... I don't think you can check it out via pocket. It's an interactive coworking room. But yeah, would love to work together sometime!
dreams - not even once
@Evolving_Ego @fortelabs @AnkurRSharma It's an embedded workflowy tree.
@djmicrobeads I went to a @trulearning tantra/yoga/meditation retreat in Sept and they were all over this. "All there is is consciousness & its contents"
Retweeted @ncasenmare
Making a tool for "programming with plain words"! Here's me "programming" a line-drawing turtle: #ScreenshotSaturday https:…
@alexeyguzey Totally. See this video about David Foster Wallace: youtube.com/watch?v=2doZRO… & this article on meta-modernism: bit.ly/2gkuiQu
Retweeted @worrydream
.@glench has made many wonderful things, but Laser Socks is certainly the sweatiest. glench.com/LaserSocks/
Retweeted @deewhock
None are more useless than superiors without subordinates, and none more useful than subordinates without superiors.
Retweeted @KevinSimler
My favorite people are those who can disagree — and teach me something — without being disagreeable. …
I just published “We All Live In EPCOT Now” medium.com/p/we-all-live-…
"Ethereum is just like fax machines." - me right now, talking about Melcalfe's law.
@paranaturalzack Rectangles: ribbonfarm.com/2017/10/05/rec…
Also collaboration. (I suspect this remark of @fortelabs' was inspired by a conversation we had last Friday. Or funny coincidence!)
@fortelabs @hrishio [Disclaimer: I don't work at companies w meetings] I would guess that a lot of actual influence comes via side-channels, not formal meetings
Full inbox zero for the first time in months. Including a backlog that I beeminded down. Feels so good. Now to go back to important work.
About to disappear from the internet for a week, to code for 100+ hours on @CompliceGoals. Timelapse after. malcolmocean.com/2014/07/maniac…
Retweeted @manisha72617183
It's really amazing how in Star Trek, every species has instant perfect video chat that works perfectly well with ever…
Retweeted @gmws82
FYI y'all, @CompliceGoals has been huge for me—it is uniquely excellent at connecting long-term goals to daily actions. Highly…
Retweeted @BrendanNyhan
why we need preaccepted articles! stops p-hacking,prevents conditioning publication on surprising results in new findings…
@fortelabs Totally know this feel. Not quite as early for me but delightful when it happens. Feels therapeutic for unlearning years of "have-tos".
+1 for "shamans of twitter"
@garybasin Oh totally. I have noticed that sometimes when coding or similar, I basically entirely forget that my body exists as a thing made of stuff.
@garybasin From Perceptual Control Theory perspective, it's a almost as if I'm only seeing & acting on the conceptual level (though my body enacts it)
@journeyofray Rushing is a mood.
Replying to @EvanBThomas
@EvanBThomas @garybasin I'm very into PCT! Read several books by Powers earlier this year, and have also picked up various other resources. How about you?
Retweeted @simplic10
@vandeRede @literalbanana If you're not annihilating everything that exists, you're part of everything that exists
@RhysLindmark @KevinSimler An app called FeedHero recently got shut down. I'm attracted to building sthg similar, to facilitate tw-conversations rather than scrolling.