Replying to @MarkRosemaker
@MarkRosemaker @anchor I want to distinguish between a generic "wake up to a podcast etc" and a specific "there's a different recording (in a given stream) for each day and it greets you with the actual day"
September 2019
Retweeted @garyvee
Be aggressively kind! If you are really happy inside - share that shit. Cause the angry are better at expressing it and it’s t…
@knrz_ @NotionHQ My experience is that it was like a somewhat worse version of some of these, only somewhat integrated together. Can you show me a screenshot of a tree in a table? Or a table in a tree? Or rich text smoothly integrated with either of those. (Let alone ~twitter-threads)
"I know we're not voting, but my vote is..." #StuffMetamodernistsSay (it was @SarahAMcManus)
@cognazor Tiny changes to interactions → huge changes in relationship possibilities. (Click thru for more on my thinking about this)
@knrz_ @NotionHQ The first one looks dope—exactly what I'm talking about! I don't think I understand the second.
@knrz_ @NotionHQ Looks like the toggly lists in Notion don't support zooming into a node tho...? I like how you can intuitively create one by starting a line with > (though ofc most places this means "blockquote")
Retweeted @ShapesOfEmpathy
Most of the people in my bubble know about fluid thinking and metacognition, but how do you reach the people lost in t…
@ShapesOfEmpathy An introspection-oriented chatbot like @MyReplika/ replika.ai might help with this, especially if it were set up in such a way that people found themselves flirting with it. People tend to adopt thinking habits of those they want to impress. (Unsure this = good plan)
Retweeted @Meaningness
No extant moral framework lets you even formulate the Q “how moral should I be?”, much less gives a useful answer. The cu…
@danielmingram @YouTube Mmm! Have you seen this Open Letter to Greta Thunberg by @ZaidHassan? It's really potent, and gets at the "act right now" part in an even more direct way. xinx.co/an-open-letter…
@luminousalicorn Bobby McFerrin & Yo-yo Ma's rendition of Hush Little Baby is 🔥 youtu.be/GczSTQ2nv94
Retweeted @cognazor
Every persistant thought pattern has energetic correlates. Explore this relationship (a) by noticing the sensations that get…
I don't use twitter on my phone. Too easy to just scroll forever in the feed and click around and get lost. On my computer, mostly because of the keyboard, it feels a lot more downhill to reply to interesting tweets & start/continue conversations.
Replying to @brownian19
@brownian19 Yeah @visakanv has the best advice I'm aware of on the topic. The main tweak for me was simply taking the time to actually engage a little in conversations that interested me. This thing below is my main tip, though it isn't something I changed in 2017:
@brownian19 @visakanv 🤔 By contrast, for someone who is off-twitter and wanting to get (back) on, I'd actually recommend they intentionally install the twitter app on their phone so they can get hooked back into it more easily than having to go to twitter.com on their computer.
@visakanv @brownian19 "this is is life, lol, who spends that much time and effort"
iterated prisoner's dilemma, except you get to choose who you want to play with and you get to talk about it with other participants in between rounds
Replying to @brownian19
@brownian19 @visakanv ...solution: learn to love work & feel cozy doing it? 😛
@knrz_ @NotionHQ I think my current feel is like "I'm glad notion is doing what they're doing and iterating, but they're not quite in my space." I think @Conaw's roamresear.ch is gonna nail it.
@cognazor Mhm, and there's lots of instances of "same word, different things" and lots of instances of "different words, same thing". The meta-skill here is paying attention to what people are trying to say, rather than getting caught up in semantic arguments.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Most conflicts between self-and-other are frustrating largely to the extent to which they engage in a conflict between d…
Thread · When willingness to leave a relationship functions as coercion
@reasonisfun Mmm, important difference between being committed to caring for your own needs and threatening to ditch the relationship if something makes you uncomfortable. The latter structurally functions as coercion, even if not intended as such.
@reasonisfun I say this as someone who a few years ago would have resonated strongly with your original tweet, and part of my resonance was related to this coercive pattern. AND, I still resonate with a core thing in what you're saying. I'm just wanting to point out that it's complex.
@reasonisfun I think part of my situation was that there was an asymmetry in our mutual willingness to leave, and so I was able to say (implicitly) "I'd rather end the relationship than have this conversation" and that meant the convo never happened. (this was somewhat a bluff, somewhat not)
@reasonisfun If my partner had been more willing to leave, then they might have been like "fuck this, I'm not persisting through this." NOTE: that from my blindspotted perspective it seemed like things were effectively not going wrong because I was prepared to leave. But it was illusion.
@reasonisfun It's equivalent to how if you chew out anyone who gives you feedback you don't like, you will soon get less feedback you don't like. Success! .......err. No feedback means you don't actually find out what's going on.
@reasonisfun Relatedly, part of the whole point of committing to a relationship such as a marriage is that you have the security to know that if either of you encounters hard times (say a major injury/illness) the other person isn't just going to leave. Yet that may involve unpleasantness.
@reasonisfun I find myself wishing I were doing more YesAnding of you here. I do think there's a deep wisdom in what you're saying about BATNAs and not forcing yourself to suffer. I also think there are pathological ways to take this advice, and I want to point at those failure modes.
@reasonisfun And related to this: What if you find getting feedback unpleasant? What if something you're doing bothers or hurts someone, and you don't know, and when they tell you you don't enjoy them telling you, but you also don't want THEM to leave?
@HunterBergsma "More like life" is exactly what I was thinking! The idea that you're stuck randomly encountering individuals and coordinating only by fucking each other over or not is... well, becoming more true due to modernism & markets. But not inevitable.
@HunterBergsma & beyond "not inevitable" it's also not necessarily the most accurate or generative way to model situations even when it does somewhat apply to them. eg you *can* build up some amount of real trust with some companies, and have a real conversation about needs. Worth looking for.
Retweeted @Rainmaker1973
A tussle for supremacy between left and right halves of your brain is why yellow dots disappear, staring at the green on…
@reasonisfun Yeah, "different sense of" seems to be a lot of the challenge I find in orienting to your tweets. They seem to sort of assume everybody knows what you're doing with each of the words you use!
@reasonisfun Hmmm again I have a feeling of in order for any of this to make sense we'd need to clarify what's meant by "better" and "unpleasant" and "criticism" and "wanted" and "coercive". I'm aware that critical rationalists use "criticism" differently than me: malcolmocean.com/2016/08/decons…
@reasonisfun Also my experience in this comes from being in a learning context where the whole point is to unlearn the coercive patterns. Which means that necessarily, as part of the learning process, those patterns are going to occur (or we'd be done). How does one respond gracefully?
To get a realistic estimate of how long it will take... 1. make an optimistic estimate 2. make a pessimistic estimate 3. add them together #ProgrammingTips
@reasonisfun Hmm an abstract suggestion might be "consider how people are likely to interpret this tweet... are there interpretations that are not at all what I mean? are there interpretations that are the opposite of what I mean?" Ofc, a lot of this relates to slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/sho…
@reasonisfun You can avoid coffee, but I would say that necessarily, as part of learning how to parent, you are likely to make choices that cause your child pain/discomfort, if for no other reason than because you live in a world with incomplete information and can't get it all before acting.
@reasonisfun This is necessarily part of living & learning. However, incidents of pain & discomfort do not have to lead to trauma or be part of coercive dynamics! But they will tend to, if they can't be: - emotionally released (crying, shaking) - talked about (meta-communication)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@reasonisfun This is necessarily part of living & learning. However, incidents of pain & discomfort do not have to lead…
@reasonisfun Yeah, I'm not sure either. I guess it's something like, with you more so than most people, I get the sense you tweet/talk as if all words have exactly one meaning and everybody knows it already. 🤷♀️
@reasonisfun (eg in our debate a few months ago about goals & problems; I felt like you were talking as if "goals" & "problems" were like "apples" & "oranges"—known referents, just debating facts about them—as opposed to recognizing that those words have complex connotations to different ppl)
@reasonisfun I'm open to framing it as "emotional processing"; doesn't per se have to be released by crying & shaking. The theory I'm using is the Bio-Emotive Framework... I forwarded you their Healthy Crying ebook 2mo ago. I'll DM you further resources. Also site: bioemotiveframework.com
@eriktorenberg If "govt"="our way of making collective decisions" then there exists no option without govt (including anarchy). Whereas ppl naturally long to live in a world where people aren't commodities => blame capitalism. (Ofc, this can happen under communism too.)
@eriktorenberg (Whenever this topic comes up, I feel a need to link @meditationstuff's amazing thread)
Retweeted @jonnym1ller
Wonder if a challenge for the #sensemaking movement is letting go of the idea that we will ever reach a point where everyt…
Retweeted @jonnym1ller
The analogy to jazz improv and intention to be alive for what emerges is beautiful. Maybe ‘sense’ is in itself a verb; som…
@mattgoldenberg @reasonisfun This also seems very plausible! I have only vaguely glanced at that book but am interested in having a deeper look. Any particular chapters/sections you recommend?
@visakanv holy shit this gif is... a whole thing.
@mattgoldenberg @reasonisfun Mmm, first thought is #2, because I'm having lots of success with BioEmotive and so I'm mostly wanting an underlying unifying framework for it and various other things (seems it might jive with PCT reorganization too?) Also interested in #3, and I suppose in #1!
Retweeted @cognazor
You ever wake up in your own skin and think: "oh...this again 🙄?"
Thread · Why conflicting priority orderings make us do the least important thing
A glitch in prioritization I've seen in myself & others: - by one criterion, A > B > Z - by another, B > A > Z - conclusion: do least important thing Z Why? Removes the tug-of-war. Lack of skill navigating internal conflict means ppl avoid at high cost.
These differing perspectives with different priorities could be all sorts of things: - wanting to please two different people - tension between two self-concepts - uncertainty about risk-tolerance - Near vs Far mode - Fear vs Desire navigation
Or something to do with the profound differences in how the left & right hemispheres of the brain perceive the world.
I wrote about a very-similar dynamic in internal game theory years ago, which I described as Vicious Rock Paper Scissors Article: malcolmocean.com/2014/09/viciou…
I've also written extensively about internal conflict from other lenses: "Towards being purpose driven without fighting myself" is also about how sometimes we scale back our ambition to reduce internal friction.
This article on building self-trust with self-referential motivation talks about some hacks for crystallizing coherence in situations like this malcolmocean.com/2017/11/self-r…
Or see dozens of tweets about internal conflict over the years.
@meditationstuff @reasonisfun @RatCritical +💯 to Mark's advice. I'll add : (6) orient not to "I must do this" but "I want to find out what it's like to do this" (curiosity) (7) there are some hacks for motivation, eg this blog post (may not work for some people, or may even be counterproductive) malcolmocean.com/2017/11/self-r…
Retweeted @AgnesCallard
I want to listen to a sadness-acceptance song-- I mean: not desperately clawing my way into cheer, but also not bitter se…
@AgnesCallard Mr Curiosity by Jason Mraz youtube.com/watch?v=lW_JMB…
@DuckDuckGo what is going on with these results? The first two make sense, but the third is clearly not what I'm looking for (though I guess if I'd searched "Dorian name meaning" this week it might be relevant) And nowhere on the Jessica Jones wiki page is "Vanessa" or "meaning"
It just gets weirder from there. Honestly these search results are so unrelated they feel like they could be used as random seeds for cryptographic functions.
@visakanv @danlistensto Mmm yeah lots of people stay trapped by refusing to untangle themselves first, but it compromises their ability to actually help.
@davidklaing @meditationstuff @reasonisfun @RatCritical Also I think Jocko groks that the narrative mind, no matter how loud, is not equivalent to the truth of your experience. Voice may say "I can't". This = opportunity to playfully ask "is that so?" Not coercing yourself is more of a puzzle than it seems:
Thread · Meditation notes: boredom as a voice, not an experience
(Unedited notes from my meditation journal, 2019-08-29) 🧘✍️🧵 > Tried doing the "let thoughts pass through, stay uninvolved" thing but I don't think I was particularly successful at it (maybe this is missing the point?)
> Initially body was quite comfortable but my feet were kinda getting squashed, and eventually I switched my legs then even lifted one up
> I had quite a lot of narrative about being bored, wasting my time, being bad at the thing... And I think I was relatively able to differentiate that as narrative my mind was spinning rather than as true. Which maybe means I was doing quite well at remaining uninvolved! Ha.
(Above is unedited journal entry. What follows is reflection.) This experience was very profound for me, because it illuminated an insight: what if the part of me that was saying I was bored was... incorrect? what if I wasn't actually bored? what if I was just... sitting there?
Suddenly my complaint-voice just seemed like a voice, not necessarily a connected with an actual experience at all, let alone my whole experience. Simply a concept of boredom, or something like that.
This experience affected my experience later that day of being in conversations. I noticed the same complainy part of me was restless, vaguely wanting *something else* to be happening. Afraid of... something. But I found space to sit and discover what might emerge.
I realized today that this experience is similar to the experience of working out and a voice says "I can't, I'm done." Almost always, this is a concept of done, not the body actually giving up. I try to push this edge sincerely but not violently.
Journal 08-30 (next day) > Did "stay uninvolved" again, and didn't have nearly the level of complaint as yesterday, but near the end I noticed some impatience... the kind of waiting pattern that Kaj described. I tried to get curious about that, or moreover to just allow it to be.
> Earlier in the meditation I'd been thinking about a lot of things, interesting things, including the idea of somehow having a pricing model for complice.co like slack, where you can build up data for free but then can't access most of it until/unless you pay... 🤔
> Anyway yeah, I feel like I know what it means to stay uninvolved with judgement chatter, but less what it means to stay uninvolved with problem-solving or explorative thought. And this is related to my meditation notes/tweetstorm from a few weeks ago. 👇
Meditations since then have mostly been remarkably unremarkable. I sit. I am not as comfortable as I would like. My thoughts wander. They recenter. There's a kind of boringness to it and yet I'm not bored, I'm just there. My learning edge now I think is to stay clear & alert. 👁️
@davidklaing @meditationstuff @reasonisfun @RatCritical See these meditation notes for further reflection on this topic: (Appreciation to @RatCritical, @reasonisfun, and @davidklaing for the context where I felt inspired to post more meditation notes!)
Thread · Meditation journal: losing the breath count and thought addiction · 1 of 27 tweets
@meditationstuff @Timber_22 @QiaochuYuan @jondubin @utotranslucence @_awbery_ Meditationthread #2 over here: (Tagging ppl again tho I'm less-so asking for advice this time; lmk if you want off my meditation taglist 🙂) @meditationstuff @Timber_22 @QiaochuYuan @jondubin @utotranslucence @_awbery_ @PeterBorah @garybasin @danielharan
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing Seems fine 👍 It's pretty incoherent and there's not much leverage for most people there, so unless you're specifically focused on something relevant, it may not add much. 🤷♀️ Hell, it may just be mostly depressing.
Retweeted @visakanv
idea: threaded/bundled notifications all replies downstream of some particular tweet should be bundled into one notificatio…
@visakanv Definitely. This is on my list of Twitter improvement ideas: ("Visa's take" at the bottom is a link I just added to this thread)
@made_in_cosmos catmatic. on a slightly more serious note: controvertible (definitions of "dogmatic" tend to say things like "laid down as incontrovertibly true")
@nbashaw The most accurate simple answer I have to this is probably simply "I live in a library and when I think I might want to read a book I order a copy of it for the library." (Although obviously not all 5k+ of our books are on my implicit to-read list.)
@eriktorenberg @meditationstuff Thought of another answer: whatever else it is, "capitalism" is a story, and it's a story that people want OUT OF. Other terms don't have this feel to them for most people. I would say "I want out of modernism and postmodern" but that's much less accessible as a perspective.
"I could do that from anywhere or manywheres" (me, earlier today)
@cognazor I've continued to be very satisfied with this tweet that I've had pinned this whole year. Kind of a lazy answer though 😛 Maybe I'll actually have a look a bit later.
@utotranslucence As others have said, it needs variation in order to actually evolve as opposed to just converge on a few attractors. Doesn't need to be random variation. Which, hm. Seems like we ought to expect this to actually happen much more with first names than surnames...
@Meaningness @andy_matuschak "clicked; no-med" b/c it clicked for me back in 2016 when I hadn't really done much meditation. Probably wouldn't've clicked before 2015. Hard to say exactly what made that difference. My 2016 meaningness deep-dive was inspired by an acute need for more fluid collaboration.
@Meaningness @andy_matuschak I'm guessing meaningness clicks iff you've had meta-experience X, which many people get through meditation but not everybody does, and it can also be acquired elsewise. What is X? A glimpse of fluid mode? Some spark of the reality of nebulosity? Experience of limits of system?
@JesseATov @Meaningness @vizslah @andy_matuschak Might be worth doing a longer-duration poll (with better wording?) where we also post the link to Less Wrong and various other groups that will contain more people who have looked at but bounced off Meaningness.
Retweeted @St_Rev
@Meaningness A bit from a Smullyan dialogue that's stuck with me for a long time, possibly relevant:
Retweeted @Timber_22
What it will look like for humanity to skilfully navigage the #metacrisis, cope with the emerging challenges of the Anthropo…
@NeoSomaliana @danlistensto Hm, my oversimplified neuroanatomy model is wondering to what extent you're referring to the midbrain and to what extent you're referring to the right neocortex...
@NeoSomaliana @danlistensto It seems clear that the left neocortex is very much oriented towards closed, complicated systems that can be reasoned about logically. Whereas RH naturally handles complexity & emergence & unknown.
Replying to @peternlimberg
@peternlimberg @VincentHorn My impression of this is that at this stage, by default most terminology gets eaten by the old culture, and people end up trying to install the new social OS as an app on the old one and it self-hacks. The people really onto the scent may end up jumping to new language every 2y
@NeoSomaliana @danlistensto Check out Iain McGilchrist's book where he lays out a really powerful model that very much jives with the (un)certainty thing (even moreso than people/ideas) amzn.to/2NVMoXh Or just dive into my tweetstorms about it:
@Conaw @SeamusOhAilin @jim_rutt @jgreenhall @GwendolynHuot @chrxn @antonjw @cognazor @peternlimberg @dthorson @mattlongs23 @nathanwaters @themarcusnewton @rhyscass @fer_ananda @SarahAMcManus Add me as an editor!
Retweeted @jasonfried
When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want…
@webdevMason Switch to emoji reactions, like slack. (This may be a bad idea; I've spent very little time critiquing it)
@garybasin @fortelabs But if it's in the PKM section it doesn't need PKM in the subtitle. I'd explore if you can somehow summarize *how* BASB helps people tap their creative potential, in a few words. ~"Create an environment for your ideas to grow" ~"a sausage machine that turns raw ideas to output"
@garybasin @fortelabs (The sausage one is clearly a terrible actual subtitle, but the image it evokes—of a kind of magic box where in goes raw X and out comes organized Y—is a relevant and powerful image)
@garybasin @fortelabs "Let your notes think for you" "How to juggle more ideas than you thought possible"
@fortelabs @garybasin Definitely the subtitle should be this line from Gary's blog post a few months ago: > "Do you want to be a Human who relies on their single brain to move their big dumb limbs, or a sleek Octopus who can do eight things at once?" garybasin.com/mission-over-m…
@HunterBergsma @webdevMason HT? I've thought a bit about the various kinds of relationships that tweets could have in principle... linear stream, parenthetical/tangent, revision-of-another, footnote/citation, tree, summary of many tweets. Many not at all supported by current twitter
@pawelabrams @made_in_cosmos Say more about the note-reactions-only thing, and how it relates? (Yeah, the idea of having this everywhere is cool. Looks like there's a few wordpress emoji reaction plugins, but they only support like the 6 reactions that facebook has...)
@danlistensto (This is a partial answer to "why"; doesn't say what to do.) Daniel Quinn's excellent book Beyond Civilization talks powerfully about the structural reasons why homelessness is made into a crime. amzn.to/31hecJB
Retweeted @aaronzlewis
i wonder if any high school teachers will start allowing students to record a podcast convo instead of writing a final ess…
Retweeted @cognazor
Just looked up the word "transjective" and basically I can die happy.
@david_perell And there's nothing at stake. No relationship to be afraid of losing.
Retweeted @cyantist
The list goes on and on, but they can’t complain because they are “privileged”. Or they will be seen as, you guessed it - wea…
Thread · The Tech Pledge, and Netflix competing with sleep
"I commit… - to take responsibility for what I create. - to only help create things I would want my loved ones to use. - to pause to consider all consequences of my work, intended as well as unintended. #TechPledge techpledge.org
- to invite and act on criticism, even when it is painful. - to ask for help when I am uncertain if my work serves my community. - to always put humans before business, and to stand up against pressure to do otherwise, even at my own risk.
- to never tolerate design for addiction, deception or control. - to help others understand and discuss the power and challenges of technology. - to participate in the democratic process of regulating technology, even though it is difficult.
- to fight for democracy and human rights, and to improve the institutions that protect them. - to work towards a more equal, inclusive and sustainable future for us all, following the United Nations global goals. - to always take care of what I start, and to fix what we break."
I don't know to what extent anyone will sign this pledge who isn't already trying to live in this way, but signal-boosting it does seem worth a few minutes of my time. #TimeWellSpent
Also awhile ago the Netflix CEO was like "our biggest competition is sleep". When I read that I had this huge well of rage rise up. What The Fuck. 🤬 It's also absurd because unlike a cigarette company, Netflix doesn't get more $ if you watch more. fastcompany.com/40491939/netfl…
Like @ReedHastings doesn't even have an incentive to get people addicted to binge-watching, he just... does it anyway? Is it a power thing? Is it an "I'm preoccupied with optimizing engagement metrics and have just completely forgotten why" thing? 🥴
Currently doing some design work for my productivity app (complice.co) and am really disappointed that humanity hasn't standardized distinct symbology for "important" and "urgent". The closest unique ones seem to be 📌= important 🚨= urgent but ⚠️ dominates both.
Current status: 🙃 distracting myself mid-pomodoro 🧪as part of... research... into 🎨 designing a user interface 🤔 for guiding reflection on 👁️ "how focused were you 🍅 during this pomodoro?"
Retweeted @mesolude
-Not having strong preferences about any state of the universe over another -but listening sincerely to your own preferences…
Time management is secretly ___________ management. (Fill in the blank)
Update: I appear to think that "how focused were you during this pomodoro?" is actually antithetical to the philosophy of pomodoros: if you weren't focused, it doesn't count & you restart. So... I may end up adding a whole new timer mode to complice.co. Suggestions?
@pawelabrams @made_in_cosmos Likes are somehow a kind of note. Eg on this old post of mine the sidebar says "5 notes" but when you look at the notes section most are "user liked this". blog.complice.co/post/121559734…
Retweeted @gabro27
So this just happened: - a bot found a vulnerability in a dependency - a bot sent a PR to fix it - the CI verified the PR - a…
Retweeted @IonaItalia
I’ve come to hate the phrase “people of colour.” It’s such a ridiculously broad category. You’re talking about the majority…
Time management is secretly time ______________. (Fill in the blank) (Inspired by @mattgoldenberg)
Replying to @leashless
@leashless @mattereum Is this said big ol' blog post?
@spacecrone Yeah, I've recently been thinking that I neither want to be Hopeless nor Optimistic but something more like "Courageous" (This from reflecting on the 9 Core Feelings of @DougTataryn's bioemotiveframework.com, which lists Hopeless & Optimistic as two ends of one spectrum)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@spacecrone Yeah, I've recently been thinking that I neither want to be Hopeless nor Optimistic but something more like…
@Conaw @context_ing 🎶 > And every day that you want to waste, > that you want to waste, > you can youtube.com/watch?v=UbEVzp…
@MilanGriffes @QiaochuYuan +1 to the fourth (was thinking extensively about meaning as a core resource earlier today)
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
@Malcolm_Ocean attention energy emotion meaning
@mattgoldenberg @diviacaroline I tried making a new thingy with a blank at the end, but so far no takers.
like Lucky Charms but the marshmallows are compacted protein powder
Retweeted @mrgunn
@mwalla @samkottler @devtesla Real gangsters use MDMA + @CompliceGoals, right @Malcolm_Ocean?
@mrgunn @mwalla @samkottler @devtesla @CompliceGoals
@visakanv Yeah the word "better" is super overloaded, partially because "good" is overloaded. Is a good pencil sharpener less evil than a bad pencil sharpener? People talking devpsych (eg ~Kegan) are quick to insist that a higher dev stage doesn't mean better. But *is* more functional!
@noididntreadit @visakanv Ooh yeah, I really like "evolve". Connotations of increased fitness for a particular purpose. Also brings to mine "adapt". Self-adaptation? #PCT (perceptual control theory) talks about self-change as reorganization—definitely an evolutionary process.
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
@jonnym1ller One of my favorite quotes! I made a papercraft version of this for our meta-monastery space, sometime las…
Retweeted @Conaw
Just had great talk with a Roam user who has been using the app for journaling. She started going through the AA's 12 step pro…
@HunterBergsma @reasonisfun @SarahAMcManus @jonnym1ller I'm reading it as poetry, or a mantra. An instruction not to be executed but to be meditated on. Obviously, shouted at someone who is literally drunk on a rooftop it's not a profound phrase.
@HunterBergsma @reasonisfun @SarahAMcManus @jonnym1ller A drunken person may carelessly not notice that they're at the edge of a roof. How is my vision cloudy at the moment? What am I not noticing? What will the impact be if I continue as I am? And even shouted at a literal rooftop drunkard, it can be heard as an act of care & love.
@HunterBergsma @reasonisfun @SarahAMcManus @jonnym1ller So yeah, like any communication/feedback, I could interpret it as contemptuous: "you're fucking up, shut up". But why do that with a poem? Ofc, it usually happens before the moment of conscious choice. That's okay too—we all have an inner authoritarian.
@yashkaf Fairly strongly this 👇 although it would be even stronger if I hadn't read David Deutsch's work about how the most obvious attractor for pre-rational memes to maintain consistency (cultural knowledge) was to traumatize their holders into not innovating.
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
Complice works nearly completely offline. We're beta-testing 100%-offline with a group of people (where you can even loa…
Retweeted @legalinspire
@visakanv @sharanvkaur And your wife's mindset sounds a little like mine (not that I compare myself to her) in that what…
@legalinspire @CompliceGoals @visakanv @sharanvkaur With some people I've collaborated with, we've consciously shifted from the language of "do this" or "I'm doing" to "cause this" or "I'm causing".
@meditationstuff @DougTataryn makes a case in this podcast interview with @OortCloudAtlas that there's structurally a limitation to how much you can learn about being a good person while not interacting with people. Less control possible in interpersonal interaction. deconstructingyourself.com/podcast/medita…
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
This points at a great way in which Complice is different from most task management apps. Most are like "dump all of you…
Friend of mine who's done some Swift is looking to learn #JavaScript, both frontend & NodeJS—any tutorial recommendations?
Retweeted @HunterBergsma
@Malcolm_Ocean @reasonisfun @SarahAMcManus @jonnym1ller Hyperdimensionally, we might wonder, upon what rooftops do we dr…
@graphrick @visakanv Aha, speculating this doesn't work consistently because searching for the full url only matches the exact url, and sometimes the quoted tweet url will be at mobile.twitter.com. If you start your search with twitter.com (no "https" or "mobile"), it'll match both!
@graphrick @visakanv (HT to @jjjreisss for the suggestion that this might be the reason. I tested it briefly and it seems pretty sound)
@graphrick @visakanv @jjjreisss Here's a great example to test with. Furthermore, I'm *sharing* it in this tweet with neither https:// nor https://mobile. in front of it, so I predict this tweet will only be searchable without either prefix!
@visakanv Also I have learned more about why this sometimes seems to not show all!
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I firmly believe that many people carry much stronger emotions than they show to almost anyone, including themselves, and…
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We're in this awkward transitional phase where half the important things are Files and half the important things are URLs a…
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The great @waitbutwhy noted that single people are halfway towards a good relationship, it's people in bad relationships who h…
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It's easier to notice this for "negative" emotions but it's also happening with "positive" emotions. We also don't know ho…
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So, this is my take, the take that's such a background component of how I relate to the world and what a mess it's in that…
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Grant me the mind to hedge the bets I must balance, the heart to commit to the loves I must leap after in faith, and the wi…
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing Slightly the opposite:
@utotranslucence There's a delightful paper that posits that interestingness is the first derivative of beauty.
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@TheAnnaGat reality is unrealistic “be realistic” is really “be conservative” reality has no respect for our simplistic not…
Stoked dark themes are becoming more popular for apps (it's about time!) & sad that so many of them are just an on/off toggle. I prefer light themes before 9pm or so, but strongly prefer dark themes after. @CompliceGoals has a time-of-day based option: blog.complice.co/post/145832019…
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Ooh! A feature request for @otter_ai / @_SimonLau: ✨Export audio highlights✨ User highlights text in the transcript, a…
@robertskmiles @CompliceGoals Agreed. I've mused about making an extension, which I guess could be taught how to push the button on different sites, and offer custom userstyles for others.
@SarahAMcManus @xuenay I've played with writing while playing a YouTube kaleidoscope or fractal zoom video on a second monitor. I imagine this is why people like to work in cafés or near busy streets. I wrote a blog post distinguishing "centering vs divergent distractions" blog.complice.co/post/891377149…
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@Malcolm_Ocean @DougTataryn @OortCloudAtlas This generalizes. In order to become something different one needs to proc…
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Interesting case study -- thing we totally accept corporations doing to us, totally unacceptable to do to each other Examples o…
Replying to @MosesObita
@MosesObita @rhyscass @reasonisfun @lifesmyth @meditationstuff @NordicSecret @themarcusnewton @Kirkynozl @OortCloudAtlas @snowded @PetriAspvik @QiaochuYuan @WisdomRebel @Timber_22 @Triquetrea @conaw have you seen this? Reminds me of Engelbart. Ofc, whether it's meaningfully competitive depends on the level of abstraction of the problem in question. "Mathematical reasoning" & "calculation/computation" are different.
the memetic equivalent of biofuel ..what is powered by leftover concepts and ideas?
Just took a caffeine pill and a melatonin pill at the same time.