@GretchenAMcC this is exactly in your wheelhouse: blog.conceptnet.io/2016/05/25/con…
February 2018
@fortelabs Ummm... unclear what to do if I find a paper document I want to review later. Can I instapaper that?
@adrien It doesn't yet store the app itself offline, but it does store data while offline. Haven't tested this on iOS homescreen; it does all sorts of nonstandard stuff. Planning to add offline-app-load and/or native app wrappers soon!
I feel a tension for attention so my intention is in tension #micropoem
@chenoehart I try to have a habit of only following people that I actually want to say things to. If someone's tweets are interesting but don't give me the urge to respond to them, I might unfollow them. Then of course actually making the effort to reply, instead of just RTing & scrolling.
@farnamstreet Thanks for your writing! Wanted to let you know, the site layout has a glitch in the header if the browser viewport is about 1000px wide.
The new @skype call sound is an awesome groovy remix of their old call sound, but they didn't make the beats line up when it repeats! Even still, I am rocking out while I wait for you to pick up.
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I could start by revisiting & flipping my ideals: Men are in crisis b/c so many of us are weak, insensitive, stupid. Instead…
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Top request is "masculinity". My $0.02: I think most thoughtful people in modern civilization would generally agree that masc…
@visakanv My parents ran a coming of age ceremony for me at age 13, and it was a really cool experience... ...but it lacked the kind of cultural weight (and perhaps real danger/challenge) needed for it to actually be a seachange in my self-perception.
@visakanv Reflecting on it in this conversation, I'm noticing something: the ceremony involved me spending the day with a bunch of men in my life (family, a close friend, and my trumpet instructor and karate sensei) and going through a series of ordeals that followed an explicit story arc
@visakanv And the story was a fictional one, that they turned into a bunch of real challenges. (Similar to typical team-building-exercise / summer camp type things). Reading this story aloud, at the end, the boy unites the four corners of the earth and saves everyone... and gets the girl.
@visakanv And I remember asking out loud "wait, where's my girl?" So... even in the context of this world-saving narrative of finding oneself (I now think it was adapted from Campbell/HeroJourney) there was still (a) a very external rewards and (b) it was (implicitly) of a sexual nature
@KevinSimler Hm, not true for me. Lots of fb friends whose numbers/emails I don't know, although we hang out in person regularly. Also lots of fb connections that I have no cxn with elsewhere and wouldn't easily be able to make one.
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Today's lesson about asking the right question to get meaningful data, brought to you by a 4 year old: Me: Should I p…
Replying to @stickermule
@stickermule In case you (or others) are curious: this totally worked! USPS was happy to send single magnets in an envelope as normal letter-mail, and with a little extra postage (but nothing fancy) they shipped like 6 magnets + 10 stickers to one of my customers in Russia.
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@ncasenmare @Dynamicland1 Remixed your fractal hands... I call it..... CYRIAK FRACTAL HANDS! 🖐🙀 (thanks for the nail polish…
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"It is not difficult to wield a sword in one hand; the Way to learn this is to train with two long swords, one in each hand.…
@garybasin I think I want to stick this bit at the end of every blog post I write. "It will seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first"
If being wrong is right, I don't wanna be... ... ...dualistic?
What Color Is The Hole In Your Parachute?
@ryan_nayr_ I have some phrases that fill unique roles, in particular "Thank god" (ironic appreciation) and "Jesus!" (a particular flavor of incredulity) that feel weird because of my lack of religiosity. But I think no other terms would express the precise thing I want, so I'm stuck with em
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@ryan_nayr_ I have some phrases that fill unique roles, in particular "Thank god" (ironic appreciation) and "Jesus!" (a…
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I seriously want to know where she learned that because not only was I not born with that hardware I don't think I would have…
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I've been forcing myself to use the words 'intellectual' and 'intellectualism' as simple, non-pejorative descriptions of a sincere…
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Keen for the @CompliceGoals Intensive because I never got around to setting resolutions and external accountability means I…
I like big picture perspectives and I cannot lie
@fortelabs @KevinSimler Certainly matches how I think of pricing for my app @CompliceGoals. Here's a snippet from an email to someone who had asked for a link to a place where people had publicly exclaimed that it's worth the $.
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@KevinSimler The scarcity of time/attention reaching an inflection point wherein freemium models broadly construed are no lo…
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@fortelabs @KevinSimler Certainly matches how I think of pricing for my app @CompliceGoals. Here's a snippet from an ema…
@fortelabs @KevinSimler @CompliceGoals I think the time/attention scarcity thing goes the other way too! If we offered a freemium model, we'd be getting support requests from people who don't think the app is worth any $. If we tried to accommodate those, it would dilute the coherency of the system.
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/r/highqualitygifs does it again
@KevinSimler @fortelabs @CompliceGoals And we do offer some discounts for people who are like "this is amazing but I really just don't have any spare cash at all". But that's different—it's hard for something to be worth money you don't have.
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Cultural constructs are as real as the US Government. Cultural constructs are not inherently arbitrary. Cultural con…
@kintrospectapp I was excited about this but kind of disappointed that I had to put in my email just to find out the app isn't available on Linux. Also why not make a web-app?
@kintrospectapp Huh? Why would that be the case? If you need access to files, couldn't I just upload them?
@UserCompas I tried emailing hello@usercompass.com and I get this issue. This is via clicking LetUsKnow in "Don't want to be notified of every response? Let us know." Also forwarded that to Fred a month ago and nothing happened. Are y'all on holiday?
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every work day is part defense, part offense. responding to needs (email, errands) is defense. articulating new ideas (code…
@visakanv I lost the tweet where you asked people to fav if they wanted random DMs (timeline reloaded out from under me). But anyway, hmu :)
@visakanv Totally. People don't monitor it for their image as much too, I think. The key (as with all conversation, really) is to infer "what sort of belief would cause someone to say this?" what's the generator? Related: malcolmocean.com/2017/04/acts-o…
But daddy *I* want the present moment *now!*
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By looking at this image, you can see how sensitive your own eyes are to contrast at different frequencies (taller appa…
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@ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan I've seen a lot of the scholastic equivalent to "without religion I'd surely be out there murde…
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Can people not just blink and see the absurdity? The replies to @bryan_caplan's _The Case Against Education_ read like ar…