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Open question of the day: What are some examples of common tools that don't work very well? Examples I can think of: 1. m…
June 2018
@Noahpinion The main one that comes to mind for me is fridges -- as a place to organize food. But also there are many categories of thing where there *exists* great ones but where the vast majority of such objects are terribly designed (if they can be said to be "designed" at all).
@Noahpinion The main one that comes to mind for me is fridges -- as a place to organize food. But also there are many categories of thing where there *exists* great ones but where the vast majority of such objects are terribly designed (if they can be said to be "designed" at all).
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@BenMosior @daveeed - "What should we call them?" - is this a name, or a word like "Passengers"? - I would swap the order of the contextual explanations and the questions - it would be great to be able to cancel my previous answer, because I did it at the wrong level of abstraction
List of things that use foot-pedals: - cars - sewing machines - pianos - some garbage cans - some drinking fountains - bikes, trikes, etc ...
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A dead fish can swim upstream. Fluid dynamics is metal. twitter.com/chubicki/statu…
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In which of these eras would you say our world changed most dramatically? Each era spans ~100 billion years of human l…
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Congratulations Apple, a 942.8 billion dollar company, for building on the work of @tristanharris and @edelwax, who have de…
Thumbs and this Glorious Forebrain: a novel
I'll have my software call your software.
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China Is Building Its Own Version Of CERN: Twice The Size And 7 Times More Powerful And they built 100 airports while the UK h…
Be the Google search result you want to see in the world.
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Most people will take the path of least resistance to having their needs met & their desires *sufficiently* satisfied (eve…
Open the door Wait--close the door You... didn't... see a dinosaur
Serotonin vs dopamine. twitter.com/chaosprime/sta…
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This probably means we can make the elephant dance with only 2 parameters marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… @ZakDavid
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@Malcolm_Ocean At the risk of excessive pedantry, this is an innacurate representation of the role of neurotransmitter…
@voyageur_techno Terminological precision appreciated. I wish there were more clear categories for the difference between the good feeling of striving and the good feeling of satisfaction. Seems that @algekalipso's work is relevant... qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wir…
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@voyageur_techno Terminological precision appreciated. I wish there were more clear categories for the difference betwe…
Replying to @BenMillford
@BenMillford Finding myself wondering if it mightn't've been easier to have made the letters out of some physical material and just stuck them on the wall in the background. But maybe the stylizing you're talking about will illustrate why that won't work.
Someone once asked: "So at the culture-building project you're part of, you have different norms?" ...and I said "it's less about 'different norms' and more about 'a different understanding of how norms work'" This shifted understanding dramatically reduces both kinds of costs.
The basic, somewhat counter-intuitive explanation of this shift is that norms become non-normative, simply descriptive. If a group has a shared understanding that behavior X → outcome Y, and knows they prefer outcome Z, they can reasonably trust each other not to do X.
For broad "norms", this of course only works for things that everyone can agree on, which tend to be basically at the mindset level. Although within a small team, you could also have a shared understanding that "if we do X, the plane (/project) will crash and burn"
One significant aspect of this shift, also, is that the negative costs of not following these "norms" isn't enacted by punishment, but just by the natural consequence of "things don't work as well when you put sand in the gears".
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At some point a friend of mine was feeling stressed about a uni exam so I decided to write a point-by-point comparison…
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New #podcast is up! hubs.ly/H0cMdFJ0 This episode is jam-packed with helpful stuff thanks to @Malcolm_Ocean's cont…
Libratory
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Pre-modernism: each tribe has an independent master narrative Modernism: hope for a single globally unified master narrat…
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I like the way Margaret Atwood says “the presiding god of the Internet is Hermes”.
@dthorson Mmmm yeah. Recently had an acute experience of this -- the insight into what I was unwilling to compromise on actually came from an experience of realizing I'd compromised on it.
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Imagine a life where you're never sad and you're never wrong what a hollow, vacant life that would be yet some people actua…
@visakanv And why does this happen? I kind of get why the wrongness thing - punishment. But why have I developed a habit of feeling angry/frustrated instead of feeling the underlying grief? It *consistently* feels better to grieve than to seethe.
@visakanv And I guess... the boring answer is that I'm a man and boys are taught not to cry or something. But I grew up in a pretty chill household as far as that stuff was concerned, so there's gotta be something else to it. Incentive structures? Did I get my way by getting mad? Hmmm...
@visakanv But then there are of course lots of people for whom anger is very much not an option, whereas crying is easier. But this crying still isn't what I'm calling "grief", above, *I think*. Not certain, but it seems it's different.
I got okay sleep on my SFO-YYZ red-eye, but could tell it didn't count as a full night because yesterday still felt like this morning. Then napped noon-3pm and now this morning feels like yesterday. Hm.
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a chatroom called "comfortable silence" in which nobody is allowed to chat, all you see are online/offline status indicators
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@simpolism @Malcolm_Ocean A chatroom where you're only allowed to chat during pomodoro breaks, and the timer is displaye…
@autotrnslucence @fortelabs Baha yeah "does mania count as easy?"
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I need a existing word or neologism X meaning something like "robustness of appetite for life". Kinda like how:productivity::why:…
@visakanv @vgr Hmm I should probably A/B test some taglines like this for complice.co . Not sure what the right ingeoup is exactly though. "The to-do list app for goal-directed people." (a bit long) "...for visionaries" (a bit... something) "...for interesting people" (maybe?)
@visakanv @vgr Do people identify (/want to identify) as quacks? Regarding 2 & 3, Complice helps by *stopping* people from overthinking things... do you think that's appropriate? "optimizers"... hmm... worth trying!
@Meaningness @autotrnslucence The meta-systematicity project I'm part of here in Waterloo has long had a close relationship with the local contact improv dance scene, and has long known that this was not a coincidence.
@autotrnslucence Books. Jean brought back a pile of books just yesterday that included lots of deep history, eg: - A Little History of Economics amzn.to/2lHtEeE (part of a series of such books) - Talking to My Daughter About the Economy amzn.to/2tJGmgC (by Greek Fin. minister)
@autotrnslucence Seems Yanis Varoufakis, the second author, has a blog that might include most of the writing found in his books: yanisvaroufakis.eu
@anielsen108 @justchap Pre-modern norms: "that's just the way things are done" Modern norms: "this way is correct because..." Postmodern norms: ҉҉҉͌͌͌҉͎ͦ͞͝҉͟҈ͦ͞͡҉̅҈͠҉͞҈̲ͬ͟҈ Metamodern norms: "we have common knowledge that X→Y, & we all don't like Y, so we don't do X" ⬅️not actually normative!
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I just had a heart attack. I forgot I was following the world war 2 in real time account, and this was from 1940. http…
Replying to @coyotespike
@coyotespike Wow, this is one of the most fascinating pieces of writing I've read in some time.
@gofundme protip: in case people accidentally promote the manage link instead of the campaign link, you should have it just redirect to the campaign page if someone is logged out or doesn't have access to manage that campaign.
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Confidence is a product of action, not the other way around.
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@justingough @sarthakgh I built something like this at a hackathon once. I still think it's a good idea but we never really promoted it or went a anywhere with it.