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Yes of course the opposite of Gladwell is Sadbadly, but have you considered the opposite of Malcolm is Bongo
September 2018
Retweeted @SteveStuWill
"Uh" and "um" are not errors; they're distinct English words, which play different roles in speech …
Got a spam email with the subject line: *****SPAM***** 36-this is brain ...what level are they playing at?
Retweeted @jplur_
The recursive centaur: half horse, half recursive centaur
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I want to start an anti-affiliate program, where I tell ppl why not to buy something and they give me a percentage of the mo…
Retweeted @visakanv
@djmicrobeads @backus @Malcolm_Ocean if I ever had a big crash of some kind I'll probably start over with a mix of malcolm's…
Retweeted @webdevMason
I don’t think I’ve read anything as slowly as I’m reading Beginning of Infinity... I think only ~5% of the books I own wer…
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A lot of our problems with trust - in relationships, politics, and consensus protocols come from conceptualising it as…
@autotrnslucence Nice! Next I'd add stuff about context. See also @bonnittaroy's excellent interview on @dthorson's podcast: A Source Code Analysis of Trust (CC @mimercha) anchor.fm/emerge/episode…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Ooh! Bay area friends, this event sounds amazing, and I'd definitely go if I was still in town! There's also an evening…
Retweeted @webdevMason
I’m unexpectedly bonding easily with the Stoics — “to such a person, glasses are amazing; to everyone else, a glass is jus…
My current main project is kernel development for the new OS. twitter.com/MimeticValue/s…
Retweeted @naval
Knowledge is discovered by all of us, each adding to the whole. Wisdom is rediscovered by each of us, one at a time.
@EvanSandhoefner Have been to yearly EA gatherings since 2014 and am dedicating my life to doing the highest-leverage things I can find towards humanity's survival and thrival. I don't tweet about "EA" though because it's not the right level of abstraction for twitter discussion for me.
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
In times of stress, some groups *flock* -- fluid and functional collective motion emerges from individual actions. Other…
Retweeted @visakanv
Another essay I've been procrastinating on: clocks and calendars are tools imposed by rulers (consider what "to rule" really…
@visakanv Oh fuck yeah! I'm really curious to know what (if anything in particular) you're oriented towards purposewise. Or if this space is designed to also give you the chance to figure that out.
@webdevMason I think the answer here is "yes". With incredibly brilliant people and terrible terrible puns, it is "what the fuck".
PSA: If you don't want your modern physics shattered by these particles, don't keep them in Antarctica.
@visakanv Oh cool! Looking forward to reading your new stuff. Lmk if you publish (or draft!) something you think I'd be particularly into
@visakanv This is also one the amazing things about Black Rock City (ie Burning Man). The decommodified culture means that there's a ton of interesting stuff to explore without that whole thingy looming over. Space to orient by desire, including "do I _want_ to give a gift to this person?"