Retweeted @oloal
"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming" -David Bowie twitter.com/RitaPanahi/sta…
November 2020
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot Yeah I think anyone who is actually excited about what's going to happen next (or has a likely outcome they think will be Actually An Improvement) is living in a very tiny reality bubble. Like in some sense an improvement to have Trump out, but overall trajectory still 📉⤵️
@eigenrobot By "likely" here I mean something like "one of Biden/Trump get elected", which are both in some sense likely. Some substantial contesting of results also likely. 3rd party candidates not likely magical restoration of sane democracy & discourse not likely
@maltybegray I bought like a dozen items from the Burning Man section of thrift stores (this is a thing in Berkeley in August; they save that shit all year) and took only 4 of them to Burning Man.
Retweeted @natural_hazard
broke: shame is external and guilt is internal woke: shame is a psyop and guilt is your conscience bespoke: shame is…
@mechanicalmonk1 @maltybegray baha I was all set to keep scrolling down my timeline being like "wow, yeah, @maltybegray's face looks so relaxed and open 🥰" and then I saw "other body parts" and I was like 🤔🧐😮😏
@Elodes12 @nibrasibn @alt_visa Me too lmk.
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 1 of 35 tweets
doz croz doe twitter.com/MistressKye/st…
Not at 4k followers yet, but I'll hit it within a month or so at this rate. What shall I do when that happens?
@mattgoldenberg @jambarree I'm down to have a look at a draft or something! (idk if I count as hyper-competent + aligned but offer stands in any case 🙃)
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa Yeah. I'm feeling into how to do this, and I think the kind of thing I'm gesturing at in this thread represents a kind of prototype both of how *I* can do this, and how others can. (Which is the nature of how I think: with an eye for generality.)
Thread · Trauma healing as permission to know and feel what you do · 1 of 6 tweets
Healing from trauma amounts to learning that it is okay to know what you know, and feel what you feel. — Bessel van der Kolk (quoted from my notes of an out-loud remark, so maybe slightly paraphrased, hence no " marks)
Thread · Complaining as affirming one's values and experience · 6 of 8 tweets
hot take re complaining: it is how people affirm their values and the reality & legitimacy of their own experience
if someone is complaining, the best way you can care for them and for the overall situation is to find a way to dignify and support and welcome their values & experience, while not making anybody wrong (applies to self too, if you notice urge to complain)
turns out that once someone feels sufficiently authorized to have their own experience and values, they actually tend to have a fair bit of space to consider that the person they're frustrated with... has its own integrity!
although invariably almost everyone forgets that step 😂
But tbh probably they actually don't manage to reach the step where the person feels deeply authorized to have their own experience and values, and to trust and distrust who we trust and distrust
Years of institutionalized gaslighting are hard to unlearn. But possible! Emotional reconsolidation can actually do this and restore self-trust, in way less time than it took to undermine peoples' self-trust so hard in the first place.
Thread · Trauma healing as permission to know and feel what you do · 1 of 6 tweets
> The challenge of recovery is to reestablish ownership of your body and your mind—of your self. This means feeling free to know what you know and to feel what you feel without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed. Excerpt from book, via wbur.org/hereandnow/201…
One of my favorite ways to think about the fall daylight savings change is that it's the one hour every year where you get to have a do-over.
@freeshreeda @BlakeAndOr Y'all can have mine.
Watch this space. I'm gonna make there be a co-watching & discussion event for Mother of All Demos, on Dec 9th. I could host, but open to @procrastiwork or @conaw or someone else hosting. I haven't seen the whole thing yet! (@peternlimberg do we want this to be on The Stoa?) t.co/1XnnvzSpGn
@YanqingCheng not aware of one. I might invent one soon if needed, although ofc it's so easy for these things to get pulled back into the old meanings. I often talk in terms of "welcoming" people (or parts) which captures some of it.
@YanqingCheng I've been doing this on a public roam (intertwingled.blog) and it's working great!
sparkly lake video I invite you to watch it, and feel connected to Malcolm of 2mo ago who took it 💖
Retweeted @normonics
Now ask: what is the utility of election forecast? twitter.com/normonics/stat…
This is a delightful thread.
@YanqingCheng @m_ashcroft this is relevant to your work ^
Replying to @JeremiahLee
@JeremiahLee You might dig this article about a chinese company that apparently has thousands of microenterprises and strikes and interesting balance between cooperation & competition. hbr.org/2018/11/the-en…
@alt_visa I saw this thing that Stripe is doing, making it easy for merchants to put a small % of their revenue towards carbon removal, as a really fascinating non-obvious use of their scale as a global payment processor. And it reminded me of this thread.
Really smart—using their scale to create a larger buyer for carbon offset solutions, encouraging more innovation there. I'm in with @CompliceGoals as soon as it's available in Canada! 🍁
@juanlanteri the complice coworking rooms? they're actually mostly just for coworking, with a bit of chat in the breaks. we probably want a zoom call or something
@chenoehart Yeah, one answer to this question might be "create a system that limits my follower growth". Have been thinking about that for a few months.
@anactofwill @naval @pooja_LuvIndia Yeah, aware. I don't particularly want the number to grow at this point, tbh. I did when it was 1500-3000. Might find a way to slow it down though...
Retweeted @BlackForestBoi
I would not categorically put this as a bad thing. It’s an interesting opportunity to define laws from the ground up, a…
@BlackForestBoi Yeah that was my thought when I saw it too. I think the crux is that yes, it wants to coordinate effectively with earth-based entities, and will thus (like any nation) need to have some capacity for dialogue with those entities.
@maxkriegers is it time to build Glue yet? Can we make a chat app that lives on top of @RoamResearch? I am wasting many minutes of my day copying text out of various chat apps in order to have it in my notes or share it with other people.
I'm serious about this. I have a sense of there being collaborative work I want to do in the world right now and people I want to bring together, and the existing apps (slack? 😒) are inadequate for this. Basecamp might suit if this work were less meta.
@Conaw @thepericulum could we get funding from the roam fund and/or roam fellowship to do this? (a couple additional features we might also need for this to work properly, like timestamped immutable blocks)
I was laying down for my nap and realized that the other cool thing about immutable blocks is they can super-easily be shared between databases, since way fewer sync concerns.
Music playing so loudly in my head (Aunt Leslie by Vulfpeck) that when I went to step away from my computer just now I switched windows to pause it 😂 music.youtube.com/watch?v=ADR0rH…
me to @maxkriegers: the reality is that "conversation" *is* the backbone of project & team management they're not separate that's, in some sense, the actual insight slack had they just... didn't know what good conversation looks like
This again, this time with The Funk Hunters 2016 Shambhala set. Epic electrofunk + rap mix. soundcloud.com/thefunkhunters…
Fuck this remix of Purple Haze is happening and my hips are just going wild like that guy in the Turn Down For What music video (which if you haven't seen, look it up, it's bonkers) soundcloud.com/neonsteve/jimi…
Somehow this electrofunk turned into something more like drum & bass. This is amazing. #nowplaying
Thread · Why "trad" can't escape choice
@Aella_Girl Part of the issue with trad is that it's almost completely arbitrary but pretends (incl to itself) that it's not and is actually fixed and known and involves no choices. 1950s are one image, but modernity isn't trad. Victorian era is another image, but it ain't trad either.
@Aella_Girl <Whatever my parents are doing (or thought they were doing)> is also a common image. Same with most of what we think we know about huntergatherer cultures. Etc etc etc.
@Aella_Girl Lots of inspirations, but you nonetheless have to choose. Can't go back to choiceless society, which is the main thing that all of these images of trad have in common! There is no default culture, in the same way there is no person who doesn't have an accent when they speak.
@Aella_Girl The choiceless term I got from @Meaningness, fwiw. Not sure if he coined it. Great article here: meaningness.com/choiceless-mode
@theorangealt @mynewtempname I have a ramble about a similar concept on my roamblog! I coined "Vital Factors", a slight nod to getting the concept from @aubreydegrey talk re how solving 5/7 of factors that cause senescence would barely extend life at all, even if 7/7 = immortality. roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
Replying to @peternlimberg
@peternlimberg @procrastiwork @Conaw Fyeah! Would need to be pretty long I think. The demo is like 90mins, so minimum 2h to include some discussion, maybe 2.5h if we wanted to go deep into talking about it. What are the next steps? (Feel free to DM me if that's easier for coordinating)
@peternlimberg @procrastiwork @Conaw Oh Dec 9 is a Wednesday—this could also be a special meeting of @edelwax & @utotranslucence's Social Design Club.
@peternlimberg @procrastiwork @Conaw @edelwax @utotranslucence (I'm not attached to hosting, I just think it needs to happen.)
Retweeted @Aella_Girl
@NaamahOrual @RealtimeAI @liminal_warmth I believe trans and enby people should be afforded full rights, access to bathroom…
@TristanMiano @eigenrobot > We need to have just a little bit more optimism. Let's just not rely on the presidency so much for that optimism. Agreed except I think we need neither optimism nor pessimism but courage. Not tough courage, compassionate and open courage.
@SarahAMcManus @mattgoldenberg @Artiphon Oh oops, yes, thanks! I meant "no wrong notes no matter what you do", not "ensure there are no wrong notes" I love this way I phrased it a couple months ago 😆 > "notes that take a bit more ummm explaining to do if someone walks in on you."
Replying to @sheherenow_
@jongold @mattgoldenberg @Artiphon > singing melodies and then figuring them out on guitar That's by far the main way I've written songs too! All of like 2 of my songs have actually had any instrumentation before I wrote the lyrics & melody.
@RealMackenzieL Hmmm... yeah. Suggestion if you're gonna say in the program would be to something like, develop your own self-authored model of how education works, by also reading Alfie Kohn, Václav Havel, and also neuroscience stuff like Perceptual Control Theory or 👇 metalearn.net/podcasts/ml41-…
@RealMackenzieL And then everything people try to teach you in school, assess both the content of it as well as the actual pedagogy being applied. Find contradictions. Ask "how would I design this better?" Try to teach people. Learn from them what does & doesn't work, and how to iterate.
@AbstractFairy > (you're an excellent writer, so this is probably on me) Nah, communication is never only one person's responsibility! 💞🙂
@AbstractFairy So I'm very with you re commiserating. Literally "misery together". Doesn't help. But deeper under every complaint is something that's very *important* to someone. It might be something that consciously they can't even name. It also might be too big and obvious, like DIGNITY.
@AbstractFairy To take a dignity example, consider someone complaining about their experience of being given the runaround by a bureaucracy. Part of what they're asserting is "this is demeaning. I am a person worthy of respect, and I know what it would mean to be respected and that was not it."
@AbstractFairy And if you can find that level in the person's complaint, then separate from trying to solve it and separate from going into misery energy, there's a possibility to say (emotionally, maybe not these words) "Yes. You matter. Nobody deserves that fuckery, as common as it is."
@AbstractFairy Does that make sense? I'm valuing your question in helping me find another way to articulate this! It's a very new idea for me—previously I would have said that my perspective on complaint was very similar to yours.
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @shawnpmurphy8 @DharamKapila @roamhacker lol I have very little idea. I've been a company of one person for 7 years, wearing all of the hats, so my venn is just a circle with thicc lines and a lot of labels inside. +1 to wanting this though
@MrMikeSmith @paigefinnn Some UW Engineering friends used to host parties where you'd give a talk w slides (any topic). When talk title announced, MC would tell audience (but not presenter) a word to all take a drink on. Prize for closest to 3 mins without going over. Hit 3mins, down a drink & continue.
@nibrasibn torn between a flirty gif and something more like
@nibrasibn based repetition
@startuployalist Exactly! And as you can tell by the meta-vision thread above, I'm very into honoring the unique magic of each individual :)
@andy_matuschak Mmm, yeah. Great question and not one I have a simple answer to. On the deepest level, I'd posit this is usually at least in part an indication of some lack of integration: - I enjoy X - I should X - I don't want to do what I should! - I don't do X
@andy_matuschak Another big piece is something more about mood/mode switching and inertia, where like, your system has a hard time imagining what it'll feel like to be in a completely different mode, so if you imagine doing something that's incompatible with the mode you're in, it feels ughy.
@andy_matuschak 3rd piece: something around flow when you first start something, even getting yourself in the groove might be hard, whether: learning a new skill → familiarity creates comfort starting a project ex nihilo → increased surface area means more options of what to work on
@andy_matuschak A bonus piece: sometimes I've found it quite motivating to think of my future self as someone I want to care for, and to do work in service of setting my future self up to do good work. Cleaning my room (& closing tabs) before a weekend of intensely focused coding, for instance.
@pjeby @xuenay @mattgoldenberg I think we have pretty different paradigms here. I think that software is an inadequate metaphor for the evolutionary process that happens in a brain, and that orienting to one's own thoughts as sacred is actually appropriate. They're not people, but they're not machines.
@pjeby @xuenay @mattgoldenberg Something doesn't need personhood to be possible to respect or disrespect. One can respect or disrespect a forest, for instance. Or a river. Or any ecosystem! A human mind is a memetic and semantic ecosystem, and one can have a basic regard of respect for its complexity.
@pjeby @xuenay @mattgoldenberg On a different level of abstraction, most of what's going on in the brain, information-theoretically, is (afaict) more analogous to ppl talking than to computer APIs. Bottom-up, emergent, distributed, parallel, redundant, perspectival, etc. Basic vibe can be argue or dialogue
@pjeby @xuenay @mattgoldenberg I think what @xuenay said is partly true but I actually am gonna bite that bullet he kindly tried to take out of my mouth 😆
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Wtf is the biz model of those store plugins like @Klarna that let you pay in installments. Usually the way installments work, like a lease or buying a laptop that way is they cost more than original. But I've now seen multiple where it's identical. Guessing merchant gets less.
Like my guess is that the premise is that this thing increases the conversion rate enough that it's worth having smaller margins because you're selling more. Ah So instead of selling for $252, customer pays $63×4mo, and you get <$252, probably up front
Ah yep, from "Klarna for business": > You get paid right away, in full, while your customers get the option to pay later. Wait though, but "in full"? 🤨 But then how does Klarna make money? Ah, just 6% flat fee, maybe even *if* customer pays up front 😬
This is... better than App Store (30%). But usually for physical products, which have way tighter margins than software. Well, software doesn't have "margins" at all, since it's usually zero marginal cost. amzn.to/3jPct6t
Anyway, I haven't looked into it in depth but I have a hazy sense that Klarna will be bad for many businesses, in much the same way Groupon was.
don't do anything that is not within your power to do
@tombielecki @Klarna Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that is also genius and kind of exploitative but also not exactly abnormal. In fact, basically equivalent to credit card companies, who make money when people don't pay off within a month.
Current mood: caffeinated latte + drum & bass
Retweeted @leekeifon1
Recently I’m trying to build Roam into a literature programming environment on Python (one step closer to emacs). Using the…
Obviously we need a @ThreadHelper+@RoamResearch integration with block search and inbox capture. @Conaw+@thepericulum does @nosilverv have access to the Alpha API yet?
@ssica3003 Yes, well spotted—this is an intentionally tautological piece of advice that is literally impossible to fail at 🙃 If I had meant "don't try" I would have said "don't try" 😜 So I guess also sort of a koan? Where by koan I maybe mean shitpost (thx @nosilverv)
(Ahh also need access for @ExGenesis who I think is main dev on TH project)
@mechanicalmonk1 I actually really like this and I am glad that my tautological absurd tweet inspired yours and is now visually nested in it 💗
Retweeted @mechanicalmonk1
you wouldn't get anywhere like that you must do things that are just outside of your power to do …
Thread · Becoming the person who makes needed things happen
This (QT) is the energy I'm leaning into a lot right now. I wanna put something in my twitter bio that's like "idea guy who ensures things happen that need to happen. executes directly when he can't find someone else to do it" …but I haven't figured out quite how to phrase it.
TBH it's a lil aspirational atm, although I have a proof of concept: I've demonstrated my capacity to have a vision & execute on it, by building complice.co —and I've long attributed its success to these meta 2 skills more than eg coding/mktg
The place I'm trying to level up at at the moment is the skill of inspiring, encouraging, and empowering others to make things happen that I see as needing to happen. (Also to access their own visionary capacity, ofc—also a thing that needs to happen!)
Honestly I'm still not that good at this 😂 but I'm practicing and it's pretty low-cost to practice so far🔰 This "meta-vision" thread that I made is part of me feeling into this in a way that's energizing to me, on like 3 levels of abstraction at once!
Learning ⏬
Here's an interesting question: who would role models in this be? Ideas? There are founders/leaders, but like, I want to be the Paul Erdős of design-strategy, showing up and saying "my brain is open, let's jam" (he's a mathematician who went around to others saying that)
@Aella_Girl defund the thought police
@nosilverv @limitoftruth @mozillabuilders converting chrome extensions to firefox extensions is pretty easy these days afaik someone took the Complice New Tab Page extension (which is more complex because "new tab page" is more browser specific) and just tweaked a few things and it was ready to go should not take long
Replying to @VectorOfBasis
@VectorOfBasis @eigenrobot > "You have a set amount of «weirdness points». Spend them wisely." If you think of it like that, you're treating weirdness points like some allowance you get from The Man 🤨😬 Here's a better metaphor: You need to *invest* your weirdness points 📈🧑🎤 #MetaphorsMatter
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@VectorOfBasis @eigenrobot > "You have a set amount of «weirdness points». Spend them wisely." If you think of it like…
@thisis_water Nope. Still directly implies your own teachers had no inadequacies, either in their understandings or their ability to communicate them to you.
@AskYatharth @simiansunny Nah it must have been better than that, because I don't like your new phrasing but apparently I did like the one you originally said was nice.
Retweeted @AskYatharth
@Malcolm_Ocean @simiansunny I find this patterns happens a lot. Mentee: “I don’t know how to phrase this.” Me: “What do y…
@RealMackenzieL @AskYatharth about his experience of matriculating to Oceanic College, which is our playful highfalutin way of saying "Malcolm sometimes gives you book recommendations and then you talk about them" (no mandatory anything; entirely appetite-driven, like learning needs to be)
@TristanMiano @eigenrobot Yup +1 to this. Courage is like curiosity, top left of this diagram. top right is pure optimism bottom right is pessimism and bottom left is ~panic see @yashkaf thread for deets)
I have actually got used to having this clipboard history thing now, and it feels like having a few extra virtual hands.
@TristanMiano @eigenrobot @yashkaf Although there might need to sort of be some other dimension or something, that's related to like... the world can have consistent learnable patterns, while also being *complex & emergent* rather than actually fully predictable. So control always partial:
@AbstractFairy > Complaint -> tell me I'm worth more than how the world treats me / the world is wrong, I'm good Yeah, that's the dualistic zero-sum answer. The upward spiral comes from recognizing that somehow everyone is acting with integrity, just poorly organized🤔
@visakanv @eigenrobot ^ yo visa I would love to have a version of your rpg strategy guide but like, one level of abstraction down, that includes stuff like this learning
@edelwax @peternlimberg @procrastiwork @Conaw @utotranslucence @Dynamicland1 Oh hell yeah. When? Saturday between noon & 4pm eastern time would work well for me. Could also do Sunday same time. (Intentionally picking same rough window as SDC since I know that works tz-wise for both Joe & Freyja.)
Thread · A three-phase pathway into emotional reconsolidation · 5 of 6 tweets
I'm developing a new general integration pathway, based on this insight "unlearning trauma responses is allowed to be fun", and further implications. Curious to hear thoughts from @xuenay, @mattgoldenberg, @nosilverv, @pjeby, etc Short thread 🧵 1/5
What I'm about to say will make a lot more sense if you've read this summary of Unlocking the Emotional Brain, or something equivalent. lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
Phase 1: Get a taste of therapeutic reconsolidation: • start with something you feel motivated to change • use a technique you feel safe with / attracted to Outcome: feel a sense of the reality of emotional reconsolidation and of the limbic brain.
Phase 2: Cultivate & integrate active appetite to do more, both by finding other things that already feel juicy, and by prioritizing therapeutic reconsolidation on any resistance that comes up. Outcome: get buy-in from all of your parts to resolving differences via ~dialogue
Phase 3: Then with full-buy-in stance, go wild! Let yourself work on everything else as it arises. Give in to the urge to integrate. And maybe like me this prompts you to reach out to a therapist in a modality you feel excited about, or you get training in a technique. Whatever!
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania @xuenay @mattgoldenberg @nosilverv @pjeby BioEmotive / NEDERA is a really great self-applied technique because the energetic waves of emotion released have a kind of momentum to them so it's easy to not get stuck or bored or lost (compared to eg Focusing). Not for everybody though as quite intense.
Q: What's been your main personal growth vector over the past few years?
Thread · Why policing "unnatural" behavior isn't a paradox · 7 of 8 tweets
There's an apparent paradox around the policing of sexual norms by saying "X is unnatural" because in some sense one might imagine that if it were unnatural then why would anyone want to do it and thus why would policing even be necessary?
Paradox goes away when you realize that while there are undeniably some biological urges, almost all of human behavior is profoundly meme-driven and memetic evolution outclasses biological evolution...
...so fitness of behavior can end up being more efficiently selected for on meme levels, which means the genes no longer select for those behaviors but rather for the ability to follow memes. And for memes' abilities to make people follow them.
Hence sexual policing of "unnatural behavior" is actually part of that process, not a contradiction to it, hence there's not actually a paradox here!
Source #1: The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich for the level of how human biology is optimized for and by meme tech
Source #2: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch for the level of memeplexes and their attractors amzn: amzn.to/2I5qz6Q
This idea I've had is a few years old; I was prompted to write it up based on someone saying a related thing in a slack I'm on.
Really great thread on NNN. Captures a lot of the nuance of how to do it in a non-coercive way, why you might want to do it, and who it might or might not be a fit for.
Thread of feature requests for @ThreadHelper (First: this is fucking awesome. I meant to beta-test but twitter was refusing to export my archive 😕) Stoked to give creative suggestions now! @nosilverv @ExGenesis
@ThreadHelper feature request #1: I want to be able to ctrl+click to open the tweets in a new tab rather than copy-pasting NBD, only one more step, but still: pretty straightforward, intuitive behavior. Easy to implement.
@ThreadHelper feature request #2: left side is currently doing nothing. What if, instead, it showed a preview of tweets that are being manually-QT'd?
Thread · Self as a selfing function among parts
I have a take on this! "What is Self?" I think it's different from IFS but also compatible. Curious how it dovetails with all of @xuenay's sequences building up IFS from scratch (which I admit I have not thoroughly read) (IFS = Internal Family Systems)
What is Self? I like to think of it as a "selfing function". Since you only have one body and one mouth and one "attention" in some sense, *somehow* your system needs to answer the question of "what do I do, say, and think about or attend to?" Different parts generate candidates.
Different parts generate candidates, but something has to perform some sort of aggregation & selection function, and my take is that that *something* is not a "part" in the same sense as other brain modules being "parts". Maybe a different kind of part? Or maybe more emergent…🤔
Maybe I'm just literally defining "part" as the things that generate candidates and "selfing function" as the thing that selects. That seems about right, actually. Note: "self" in this sense is wider than IFS Self, in that something necessarily must always be performing this fn
However, it is common for it to be performing it quite poorly, which looks like stuckness or oscillation because conflicting urges are unable to be reconciled. Perceptual Control Theory describes these dynamics in depth.
One image I have found very evocative (tho way anthropomorphized) is of the Self sitting at a desk and getting constant inputs from parts, who are coming up and delivering verbal reports as well as folders of information and so on, and they're relating to these parts.
Common, dysfunctional Self is overwhelmed and feels victimized by parts. It expresses irritation at what seems to it like irrelevant or false information (eg coming from emotional flashbacks). A kind of "you should know better", but no adequate explanation of why.
Can also have Self that has an appreciative stance. Imagine them saying "yes, thank you", "great, I'll have a look", "oh, false alarm but thanks for letting me know". And if conflicting or surprising info, a curious orientation, assuming the confused part was missing vital info.
(Seems plausible to me that these two general approaches might correspond to left & right hemisphere somehow, although there's obviously way more going on than that. But frustration is very LH-characteristic, and RH is way better at holding conflicting perspectives comfily…🤔💭)
Another image I've had is of my Self being like a dad, & all of my thoughts being kind of like kids clamoring for attention… there's a sense of like, I can't read each kid's favorite story at the same time, but I *do* actually have enough *love* for all of my kids at once!
And importantly, I can communicate my limits/boundaries/choices/etc to my kids in a way that makes them feel bad for even asking for attention, or in a way that dignifies them and appreciates their desire & request. I've been learning to shift this in relation to my thoughts!
Same day I first realized this, I was musing under my breath about something, and my attention trailed off, and I was like "or whatever the hell I was talking about" then I was like "wait—no. NOT whatever the hell. that thought was sacred, even if I'm choosing not to explore it."
I've been talking about this stance with @pjeby lately and he thinks that this is absurd because the brain is software and not deserving of respect (nor disrespect), but I feel like I can now point more precisely at what I mean, here.
I don't know that much about machine learning, but I know a little. I also don't know that much about neuroscience & neurochemistry, but I know a little. It seems to me that the two stances above probably have a distinct neurochemical signature and the loving one learns better.
Without claiming much specifically, I would say that this almost certainly has something to do with serotonin, as evidenced by: • neuroplasticity anti-correlated with depression • REBUS model that talks about better brain communication on psychedelics (serotonin system)
What is serotonin's deal, anyway? These words I came up with as attempts to pithily evoke it sound suspiciously like the Core States one gets to in Core Transformation 🧐
The image QT'd just above talks about high serotonin as being "secure high status". I suspect <whatever that looks like for you> is the spacious & integrative IFS Self, more so than your preconception of what "talk to yourself lovingly" implies.
Okay, long enough thread for now! I've got an existential dance party to rock out at 💃🤸♂️ As always, it's important to remember that the desk & dad metaphors above aren't literally true, because of homunculus issues. But the thing they evoke seems central to what Self is, to me.
@nosilverv @limitoftruth @mozillabuilders a random Complice user 🤷♀️ But like, when I said easy... I'm reviewing the diff from their pull request and the changes were literally: - add <meta charset="utf-8"> - escape html insertion - add a couple things to manifest.json - upgrade angularjs version to latest basically it
@nosilverv @limitoftruth @mozillabuilders Not saying it'll be as simple for you—idk. But point is, don't assume it's difficult.
I'm only slightly surprised, but I am *disappointed* that when I search twitter for "election", almost nobody is talking about how few of the votes have been counted yet due to mail-in stuff. @FiveThirtyEight doing okay tho:
I had sorta thought of this (Thanks @ThreadHelper) a couple weeks ago but alas I do not have infinite reach.
Also not bad.
@NateSilver538 *sigh* Nate fucked up a lil phrasing it as "a bit back to 50/50". Half the replies think he means "move it to 50/50" even though "a bit" clearly implies "towards 50/50" if you slow down to read. Something like "move it away from extremes" probably woulda worked way better.
@nathanbraun huh, yeah. given serious possibility of biden landslide based on polls, and that that's clearly not happening, makes sense it would drop surprised it hit 70% trump though given uncounted early ballots etc but I don't have skin in the game (betting-wise) here so 🤷♀️
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"white men were the Heroes of this election" twitter.com/MattBruenig/st…
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Watching the election results right now is like taking a pregnancy test 5 minutes after you have sex.
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As expected, we won’t know the result of the presidential election tonight. Thankfully, local election administrators are…
@vgr Twitter has blocked. Can see QTs though, which is interesting. And ofc they're mostly about blockedness of it. I think it would be helpful if it specifically clarified how it's misleading: "Polls are closed; votes are still being counted. This is ordinary election process."
Here's @vgr with an ongoing series of takes on the election situation. Lots of great stuff in here.
> Can think long-term again Am also looking forward to this, although Permaweird makes that... well, weirder. Still, > 50% reduction in scenario planning complexity for us futurists definitely helps
alternatively just follow @threat_update twitter.com/threat_update/…
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@vgr Twitter has blocked. Can see QTs though, which is interesting. And ofc they're mostly about blockedness of it. I th…
@vgr I mean I can see why they don't do that. I really can. But still. Not having it there just makes it yet that much easier for each side to project their reality bubble onto the tweet. Oh I guess maybe also not quiiiite as simple as my summary above.
@Elodes12 Yeah I feel this way about most of the songs I write. Even my album from 2012 (👇) or my old youtube videos or whatever, I know there are all sorts of technical improvements I could make but there's a feeling of "YES! This!" maleidoscope.bandcamp.com
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@_Rian_Stone author of thread is trans, fwiw
@AskYatharth I have a ramble here about how unconsciousness isn't actually a thing. It's... multiple things! intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
In an interesting turn of events, Trump is trying to call the election before enough votes are counted, and Fox News is not, so Fox is thus "democrat fakenews thieves". I can see the logic, within the filter bubble. Very curious to see if this lasts & becomes widespread. twitter.com/222t/status/13…
Would be an interesting parallel in absurd extremism to when very liberal people/organizations who refuse to toe the wokeist line get branded by them as "right-wing". Haven't seen as much of that in the opposite direction, so far (but may have just missed it)
Never a bad time to link to this article that puts out meaningful definitions of "liberal", "progressive" and "conservative" such that you can be all 3 at once, btw. "Left" & "Right" have meant dozens of things at different times in history, & places. everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
They all seem like worthwhile qualities! - liberal = live & let live - progressive = try to improve things - conservative = don't wreck shit while improving And as far as I can tell, the two US presidential candidates atm are not particularly outstanding on any of them 😕🤷♀️
Nothing's surprising at this point, but notice how Biden is not speaking whatsoever to the half of America who voted Trump. He could be addressing their concerns about fraud or stolen election, but he's pretending those concerns don't exist/matter.
I suspect at most 30% of Trump voters (maybe way fewer) would be able to usefully get anything out of him acknowledging those concerns—by which I don't mean any sort of concession about facts, just "I know some of you are concerned about voter fraud, and that's important." etc
My guess is that that 30% are relatively silent, so it's hard to imagine that they're out there—and that's if you're even trying to track what Trump supporters are saying at all. Is Biden? Does he realize he's running for president of *all* Americans, not just half? Unclear.
(Trump obviously in some sense actively doesn't, to be clear. And his base seems to have an almost sadistic energy about the idea of winning and getting to dominate the US with their policies, getting off on the idea that many people aren't going to like those policies.)
The growing loudness of the partisan political contest increasingly obscures the idea of democracy.
There are lots of issues to be fixed with this idea but I continue to think it's onto something really important about incentives. Probably too late for this to fix polarization though.
One fixing idea: succession to speaker 👇 (remember: in countries like the UK & Canada (where I live 🍁) the head of state is "the leader of whatever party got the most seats in parliament", so this actually falls back on a very well-tested system tbh.)
"GET IN THE CAR", said the cactus person
a little late for Halloween but I just had a cursèd idea: a spreadsheet app but one or two cells are always slightly crooked or askew
"The right hemisphere is less worried about going crazy than the left, because it's much more in touch with how much sanity is embedded in your environment." - @SarahAMcManus to me & @thepericulum
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Social distance Roaman chill in Toronto @Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus and @Beehtrix
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if you are making a product the best thing that can happen to you is that malcolm or someone like him gives you specif…
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@Malcolm_Ocean @natural_hazard What IFS calls "Self-leadership" might then be something like where the protectors still raise c…
@AskYatharth @xuenay @mattgoldenberg @nosilverv @pjeby
@ben_r_hoffman @Aella_Girl True! You still need to choose which one to emigrate to, but having made that choice you can maaaaaybe just experience the tradition as it is. Maybe.
@buildren @fredericl @christhebarker u need dis
@xuenay @natural_hazard Oh wow, yes. I love this articulation! Sounds spot on to what I'm talking about, both the self/Self thing and the hemisphere stuff. Does the basal ganglia thing handle "action selection" when "action" consists of "think about something" rather than motor action?
@thepericulum @Mridgyy @RoamResearch Mmmm yes! So appreciating this. (I lost a bunch of stuff due to browser storage failure plus some other thing, and messaged Bardia right away being like "you need a message in that situation!")
@SeanMombo @Cantide1 made a difference for that one
@TristanMiano @eigenrobot @yashkaf Yes, it is basically that distinction. This detailed brain model suggests the brain does make such a distinction. (@yashkaf's thing is based on this stuff: ) slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/08/ssc…
@TylerAlterman @captain_mrs Fwiw, I've been working on some social tech that is optimized for allowing people to point illuminate each other's blindspots without causing more weird layering & compartmentalization. Early stages, but so far encouraging results, and I haven't seen anything else do this *live*.
@TylerAlterman the old cultural substrate of close coordination was never adequate to do the kinds of things you want to do (I don't know exactly what you want to do but I assume it's the important stuff) it is breaking a new cultural substrate is emerging it is bootstrapping
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@Mridgyy @RoamResearch Fleeting Notes = Seeds Literature Notes = Digging into the soil Permanent Notes = Roots of the trees…
boo
@TristanMiano @TylerAlterman Inasmuch as I'm embodying secrecy, the way it feels to me on the inside, is mostly like trying to preserve my attention. That in itself may be confused, but best guess atm. This thread though is me laying a new layer out explicitly though, for instance.
I'm working on a bootloader for the emerging new cultural operating system.
Do I have the most different roams? The number of distinct @RoamResearch graphs I've updated in the last week is… 8 😬😎🙃 Anybody have more? (I don't recommend this btw, if you can avoid it. It's slowing me down a bunch until they implement inter-db-linking)
(Aware that for most people the only way you can have more is if a bunch have been shared with you or you have a bunch of local ones, because there's now a cap on making new DBs when you hit 3―I made my many graphs before that.)
@TristanMiano @TylerAlterman Then another level, more about avoiding having ppl fixate on words not dao. @jgreenhall: > "If I could articulate it, by definition, it's complicated. GameB is not complicated, it's complex. So I cannot define it in any finite set of statements." 14min youtube.com/watch?v=8Es_WT…
@TylerAlterman tell me about this thing (found on Tyler's Religion in 1 Page tyleralterman.com/Tyler-s-Religi…)
@TylerAlterman me on multiple levels rn (@visakanv)
@TylerAlterman @visakanv (context: this vid) twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
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Never forget: This is REALLY HAPPENING.
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@quotidiania Hard mode is to create full space for your own authenticity while also fully welcoming the authenticity of whatever in the other person is rejecting their experience of your authenticity, & finding a way for those to dance. (This is where the juice is 👇)
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The water is wide I cannot get over how freaking wide this water is Give me a boat that can carry two and I won't be ove…
I come from a long lineage of people who figure shit out for themselves and reinvent wheels.
@TristanMiano The lineage part is a joke/paradox. My original tweet, distilled, would be "I'm a traditional antitraditionalist."
@utotranslucence @thepericulum @SarahAMcManus @Beehtrix And cool pants!
@AskYatharth @simiansunny Yes! See I do like this. Explicitly addressing the reader and saying "Look, if you've got beefs, don't take it up with my teachers. They've got enough to do, and don't need your crap."
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@quotidiania The cultural OS, in its fully-realized form, IS the integrated whole of peoples' integrity, integrating more. So Authentic Hard Mode capacity is critical both for the thing itself and for getting there (the bootloader) although in some sense these are the same thing anyway.
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In an effective fluid company, conversation is the backbone of action. I'm starting to feel increasingly like the backbone of my personal action is twitter. Connect, collect, get inspiration & clarity on what needs to happen, then do it!
Thanks @ThreadHelper for pointing out where I used the same metaphor last week! Had forgotten I'd tweeted this.
A principle that can help you make your twitter more like this:
(further explanation)
I'm kind of attracted to this myself, but I've got work to do 😎
This thread emerged from me wanting to tweet a DM my friend had sent when they tried complice.co. By the time I'd finished writing the thread, I had made substantial changes to the copy users see when they first sign on the app.
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The most underrated story of the election is that despite being very close, in an incredibly fraught and turbulent politi…
@KHPavle @utotranslucence might have thoughts on this ^
Just briefly tried searching google images for my own logo, thinking it might be quicker than pulling it up on my computer, but it wasn't. (My Malcolm Ocean logo 🌊👇, not the @CompliceGoals logo—that one actually does show up readily in google images.) malcolmocean.com
Sarah: "what's that?" Me: "it's a drawing of my vision" Sarah: "if your vision looks like that you should probably see an ophthalmologist" (@SarahAMcManus)
Oh nice, somehow only just now saw this thread of @visakanv's where he QTs people doing things inspired by him, even though I'm the third on the list! It's good shit.
Visa himself seems close to being an answer to the question I asked below, about role models for what I want to do. But I'm aiming for something a bit more actively involved, hence current bio "I'm like a VC for the meaning & relationship economies."
Someone send this to @eigenrobot and the other folks who are trying to avoid finding out who's president as long as possible.
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what's the deal with people noticing that everything is vibrations and then deciding that means they should become vegan or…
@thepericulum @ctabrizi_ Same sunset, same night, from 100km west of where Bardia was: (with @SarahAMcManus)
Damn, monkeytype.com is the best lil typing test I've tried. Supports realistic backspacing, including ctrl+backspace for deleting a whole word! HT @thepericulum my first try—10wpm faster than I get on most tests, which are faker.
If you don't know ctrl+backspace, learn that shit. Often way quicker to fix a typo by nuking the whole word & starting over than by trying to count the right # of backspace presses to get to your error.
Where I found this:
@thepericulum I'm consistently around 100 or so.
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a tweet is a magic boomerang. You throw it out there and it comes back a minute later and smacks you in the face but ev…
@chaophagy I mean the zero-design answer is just a patreon with identical name/pic/bio, that has no particular rewards, for people who want to support what you're doing. Obviously could get way more complex but it's a place to start.
Wow, remarkably different experience looking at this chatlog with my text on the left & @AskYatharth's on the right. Kind of like when you're playing chess and your opponent goes to the bathroom so you sneak a peek at the board from the opposite side. Cool feature for chat app?
Doing so would be extremely non-conservative, in fact. (In the useful sense of "conservative" where it actually means not just "one partisan side" but rather "the opposite of radical", ie "don't break what's working about the existing system".)
This is one of those things actually where there has been plenty of fun cocktail party on twitter the last few years, and there will be plenty of black hole demonic stuff no matter what happens with US politics. You choose who you follow and interact with, in either case.
Of course, since most of the people I follow and interact with are in this fun cocktail party, y'all don't need me to tell you this 😆🍸 But it's fascinating how despite the utter openness of twitter (unlike fb with groups etc) it still forms really meaningful clusters.
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@vgr personally I think every tweeter has an obligation to step away from the village square, go out and hunt down something…
@AlanLevinovitz The cocktail party has been here the whole time! So if it doesn't go back, maybe switch up who you're following 🔃
@AlanLevinovitz Hmm, yeah. I guess it kind of depends, I mean, if you were to go to an in-person cocktail party this week then probably a lot of ppl would be talking about the election… …but you can still find the conversations you want to be in, and/or steer them towards what interests you.
Sent this post to @AskYatharth and he was like "I'm just starting to read this and I'm like, I'm already confused about what a deadline is…" Me: Yeah, I mean, one of the purposes of this post is to take your concept of "deadline" & put it in a solvent. malcolmocean.com/2020/10/deadli…
Challenge for video game designers: Invent a game that's designed to work with upwards of 2 minutes of *real latency*, eg with one player on Earth and one on Mars. I bet @zarkonnen_com will have ideas. twitter.com/zarkonnen_com/…
@VitalPixel Ofc not. Nothing, defined in its own terms, sounds that dumb. Steelmanned radicalism says something more like: "Things are so borked we have to tear them down and rebuild, even if things are lost in the process". And it has a point! But so does conservativism. & everything.
This is tough. Part of what makes the claim baseless is that he spent the whole election mostly ignoring half of the country's apparent concerns. Even if you think the concerns are unfounded due to propaganda, you can't dialogue from a place of "you're just confused.
@tnorthcutt @zarkonnen_com Exactly, yeah.
@CrayonsAndSuch @xuenay @zarkonnen_com Yeah, this ^ I mean a game that you play in real-time, but it's got huge info delays built in.
Ooh yep, this is a cool idea. Attacking requires your troops to follow some fairly pre-set strategy, but you can defend in real-time, almost as if a base commander in a real pre-telephony battle who can't communicate instantly with troops on the field twitter.com/zarkonnen_com/…
Whoa! Here's another neat version. Say you've got 4 players on 2 teams, and one person from each team is on Mars, the other on Earth. Kind of like one defender, one invader, on each team, and latency in communication between you and your ally as well as other delays.
@svzhuchkov @sarah_cone @gregisenberg I have a rant on this:
@VitalPixel Yay for twitter learning! I think that's also a very liberal perspective, because liberalism supports pluralism, & a progressive perspective, b/c progressivism encourages trying things to see what works. On which note, you might appreciate this article: everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
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I like to think of my tweets as adorable bees that I send out into the world. Occasionally they return with nectar (replies). S…
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*peers at Buddhist Tantra* Is... is this how gendered practices work in Tantra? It's fun because everyone knows it's…
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"Don't cry," is one of the worst things you can say to someone with sadness. But often, so is "It's OK to cry," as the p…
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Semantic nihilism is either nonsense or it doesn't mean anything.
Thread · The copywriting problem unique to meta offerings like courses and goal systems
Mmm, this is reminding me that there's a specific copywriting problem that's unique to meta offerings like this: > I'm building a small course to help you figure out what you truly want in life and how to get it. I've encountered the same thing with @CompliceGoals.
If you want to sell someone deodorant, the sales pitch is "our deodorant is better than the other one you're using". Maybe you say it's healthier or greener, maybe you say it'll get you laid. Whatever. There's some sort of selling point, and a comparison.
If you want to sell something that solves a problem people currently have no solution for, then you just need to identify their pain point in a way that makes them feel seen & heard, and then they'll assume you have the solution. (which may be naive 😆👇)
But if you want to sell "I have a device that solves your problems (or empowers you to)", which is what any system for productivity, personal development, life-clarification, goal-setting, etc, does… …well, what's the catch? *Obviously* everyone would want this, IF it works.
So you need to empower people to figure out (before purchasing) whether this is the sort of thing that might work for them. A free trial can be one way, and it's worked well for Complice because it gives people a firsthand taste of a different approach:
But a free trial doesn't work as well for a course, and in any case you need to help people self-identify whether they want to sign up or not. Not gonna pretend I have a proper taxonomy here, but approaches include: - say who's not a fit - present an archetype - vibe with people
complice.co has this quote on it, which is designed to emotionally evoke a meaning-oriented vibe in relation to productivity. It reminds you (gently) of the finiteness of life, and nudges you to consider that your existing approach might be out of touch with that.
To @Neats29 — since your course comes out of your own experience, what you probably want to do is tell the story of how you were stuck in unclarity about what you wanted, and see who resonates with that and who doesn't.
Was gonna say that the intended effect of that is "WHAT? I thought I was the only one!" but that's actually only true if you thought that about yourself too. Point is, inducing some quality of surprise & self-recognition with this story is desirable.
My suggestion would be to message a dozen friends directly and have a conversation with them where you find out if they would be a good fit for your course, not to sell them on it but to refine how you articulate the story to produce that recognition.
For more thoughts in this general area (including specifically re messaging friends) I have a blog post from a few years ago, that I would probably frame differently now but I expect to still be useful to people. malcolmocean.com/2016/09/awkwar…
The other half to the "what's the catch?" above is the question of whether your solution *does* actually solve their problem. Herein lies two reasons to work directly with at least a couple people: 1. to ensure that the thing *does actually work* 2. to get some testimonials
@Neats29 You have inspired a thread!
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conspiracy theorists are overrated; the real work is done by the conspiracy experimentalists
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and if people are awkward about it, or don't want to engage, the solve is to call out exactly what's happening in the subtex…
Yeah some famous guy said "write drunk, edit sober" but I prefer "write sober, edit drunk". (or sometimes "write on caffeine, edit drunk"… I haven't tried all the permutations with all different drugs or states of mind though so there may be an even better combo out there)
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It's coming to America first The cradle of the best and of the worst It's here they got the range And the machinery fo…
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I’ve never read The 5 Love Languages, but from what I know about it, it seems like a testament to a simple truth: There…
@mattgoldenberg @natural_hazard this is the way to do it youtube.com/watch?v=JMJ6Kf…
@RobertHaisfield @RoamResearch
@andy_matuschak @tobyshorin @mariodgabriele > one of the purposes of this post is to take your concept of "deadline" & put it in a solvent.
This clip is remarkable. Or well... it feels remarkable. I seem to be having trouble figuring out what to remark about it. The way that she laughs, it's like, she's in touch with a level of surrealness of the whole thing. Felt weird to me the first time, but kinda grounding too.
My aim is full fractal buy-in, without compromise.
@mattgoldenberg maybe! idk what that is. google gave me some stuff about congruent triangles in hyperbolic space, plus this link. I think you mean a third thing 😛 fractal-consulting.com/consultancy/st…
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@sadalsvvd @SarahAMcManus this thread relates to some recent thinking you've been doing re Face (and also relates a bit to the stuff we've been talking about around honoring distrust etc)
@mattgoldenberg Yeah, although all of these scales can also feed each other to some extent, so don't need to get 100% aligned internally before being able to do stuff with rship & org, & vv. Bootstrapping integration.
May I integrate everything that wants to be integrated as it wants to be integrated.
shadow-namaste: "the triggeredness in me says fuck you to the triggeredness in you" 🖕🙏🖕 — @SarahAMcManus
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@Malcolm_Ocean 🙏🏾 Something that has been in the frame here is: May each aspect's craving to be appeased be seen truly…
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@AbhayPrasanna Beautiful, yes. Also: May each aspect's apparent resistance to dialogue be seen as it standing for the integrity of what dialogue looks like to it, and not losing that integrity to someone else's idea.
"You know, we honestly thought we would get more votes than we did. That tells us there's something we don't understand about the needs of all Americans. We're gonna listen closer." — not actually what anybody elected this week said but that would be a *real* step towards unity.
Thread · Why political unity talk fails without actually listening to dissenters · 7 of 12 tweets
Continuing to be 🤨 at politicians talking about unity but not actually addressing the people who voted against them. KH: > You delivered a clear message. You chose hope, and unity, decency, science, and yes—truth. "Clear message"—MAYBE if a landslide.
What would it be like for someone to stand up in a "1st speech as [vice] president-elect" & say "You know, we honestly thought we would get more votes than we did. That tells us there's something we don't understand about the needs of all Americans. We're gonna listen closer."
THEN talk of unity would be more than an ideal. (to be clear, I'm aware that most of the audience at this event *are* probably Biden+Harris voters. Doesn't matter. They're addressing the whole country, and the world (hi from 🇨🇦!) via this speech.)
KH: > "You chose Joe Biden as the next POTUS" This represents the American will as being already unified. It's exactly the sort of language that encourages compartmentalization in individuals, and I would expect it to encourage division in a nation as well.
It says "the will that spoke most vehemently won, and all dissenters can stuff it." A series of primary votes then a national election is an absurdly crude approximation of collective will. It's what we've got, but we don't have to pretend that it's actually good.
Timely quote from Churchill. Note that these don't strictly contradict. KH's quote doesn't portray US democracy as perfect. But it does portray it in a way that suggests people should feel satisfied with it, even if they don't.
I honestly don't expect most people to get this, because my understanding of it is only a few months old, and came out of a bunch of deep exploration into the nature of the psyche (Unlocking the Emotional Brain) and dialogue (On Dialogue by Bohm) and trust. Still articulating.
@AndrewYang Huge respect 🙏
Relatedly:
Thread · Why political unity talk fails without actually listening to dissenters · 5 of 12 tweets
This tweet calls it: > I’m not really interested in “unity” or “healing” with the people who called me god awful things for four years simply for not agreeing with them politically. So don’t be surprised I don’t want to hold hands and sing kumbaya. twitter.com/jason_games198…
Dialogue requires acknowledging this: you don't know what you need to know in order to integrate with others—truly integrate, which means respecting their INTEGRITY. You have to listen.
Biden, ~21mins in the video: > Refusal of Ds & Rs to cooperate with each other is not some mysterious force beyond our control. It's a decision… if we can decide not to cooperate, we can decide to cooperate." I see it not as a decision but skills: listening & finding win-wins.
If you don't have those skills, then "deciding to cooperate" means "deciding to compromise" means "deciding to half give up". With those skills, you don't have to *decide* to cooperate. You just *do* because it *works better*. Win-wins are stable, rather than contested.
While writing this thread, I found myself imagining writing an alternate pair of speeches for Harris & Biden to deliver on this occasion. I think that would be a profound & challenging exercise for any aspiring memetic mediator.
@pooja_LuvIndia ♫ you are what you'll grow into ♪ you're not what you were youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnA…
@diviacaroline Oh fyeah. Also I have a whole thread elaborating on this perspective:
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@danielharan He got 50.6% of the popular vote, compared to Trump's 47.7%. That's a majority, but barely. It's still not anything resembling a unified nation.
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@danielharan Yes, an important caveat. And, I'm not saying give them airtime on TV. I'm saying understand their actual experience and concerns.
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@danielharan Not sure what you're saying here; would be interested in knowing more details!
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@danielharan This is a good point, AND it doesn't change the reality that Trump got more votes (~70M) this election than any other past candidate. Those people are the people I'm positing aren't being adequately addressed or listened to by the Democratic party.
@ben_r_hoffman @diviacaroline Yeeaah. In the dream-world we need something like this… meaningness.com/metablog/virtu…
@ben_r_hoffman @diviacaroline …or this:
As a Canadian literally swimming in literal maple leaves right now (okay, 2mins ago) I am struck by the significance of our national symbol being one that we HAVE in such absurd abundance. 🍁🇨🇦
Fuck I do so much great journalling & so little re-reading of it. I need @readwiseio for my own bits. Roam sorta solves... stoked for what else is around the corner.
If you meet the vibe on the road, don't kill it.
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Actual example: This is an oil painting—an incredible display of skill on behalf of the painter. But the beauty owes to natu…
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Trying to quell panic by denying reality is a very short-term game at best. And even then it leaves people out. If you…
@diviacaroline Yes, very much so! Nice.
@anactofwill @readwiseio yes, almost entirely digital, though I do have some handwritten notes from years past
@diviacaroline Mmm, well put. Very curious if you resonate with this related take of mine:
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broke: "non-doing" relationships, while paying ~no attention to one's inner compass woke: being very "deliberate" about re…
> You have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken. I resonate with this so much. I do a lot of different enjoyable things, and they all function as breaks from each other as well as constraints on each other. paulgraham.com/love.html
@jimmyti @andy_matuschak Btw @jimmyti, Complice has quarterly reviews now! They let you easily see your responses to weekly & monthly reviews, as well.
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“Jazz is about the notes you DON’T play.” He tells me. And now I lie awake at night, tormented. Bombarded by the cease…
@diviacaroline Mmm, for example?
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My dream is one day @CompliceGoals will help me not just with the “what” of today but the “how.” That’s already where @Ma…
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@tobiasrogers @liminal_warmth @visakanv You know it's funny, I was one of the first stylers for roam (and the inspiration for them adding selectors so tags could be independently styled) but I haven't done much with it in a year, I just have slightly different colors for each db, & dark theme.
@AskYatharth @BlackForestBoi ...the real conservative government.
@VitalPixel @tobyshorin Oh totally, I'm not here to argue that conservatism "should" mean a particular thing, just that there is a thing that it could mean that is deeper than "whatever the US Republican party platform is this year"
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"just enough" strategizing to feel comfortable "just doing" sounds like a great summary of how complice.co w…
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Where are the bodhisattva VCs?
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa After I facilitated BioEmotive for someone (basically a stranger) she kept insisting I was such a natural empathic listener, and I was like "you have no idea how many times I've been called an asshole, and how hard I've trained to be able to do this" but she wouldn't have it.
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the interesting part of this to me is when he says “hard to be positive when that’s reality”, when the reality right in front…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth I've got various threads here. Some much more readily solveable than others. Happy to ideate further towards a given domain if you want!
@nosilverv @WeftOfSoul Hmmmm now I am wondering about @nosilverv's shape… …specifically something like what vital role(s) might he play in this meta-team idea here…
@nosilverv @AskYatharth quoting me:
Retweeted @visakanv
in order to get to the top of a (metaphorical) mountain, 1. a part of you must want to 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d. mountaineering traini…
@ssica3003 @callumflack @TheMusingMind @everytstudies @KaseyKlimes Yeah, I wrote here about how various images of "trad" (1950s, or "whatever my parents did") are attempts to recover choicelessness, which requires people deny the arbitrariness of those images.
@Baeocystin @Aella_Girl @tprete @rlj_law perennial twete
If I'm reading this right, this site/org is performance art in the key of the brainstorming prompt: "Consider the problem you have. How would you go about making it worse? Now notice if you're doing any of those things already." via @Aella_Girl appliedeschatology.com
Hold Self-distrust (a little meditative exercise) Incline towards the question "in what ways don't I trust myself?" Attend to what arises, and encourage yourself to trust yourself exactly as much as it makes sense to trust yourself.
@visakanv I often point out to people that taking actions is something you just *do* if you're not too conflicted about them. You take another bite of your breakfast. You feel compelled to read another chapter of the novel. No "motivation" required. Sometimes conflict just lack of clarity.
@magicianbrain omfg this is too much
@Aella_Girl @magicianbrain tweeted this earlier this week, apparently without any awareness of this site 😂😂😂 > you guys, when i make up schizoid noun phrases like this it's not because i want them to manifest themselves into existence Probably the Baadest-Meinhof.
@xuenay @nickcammarata @sam_havens What about out-loud interviews that then get edited into text transcripts?
@acesounderglass @xuenay Wondering if for either of you, this prompt might help generate a sense of what kind of teamwork you might want to be doing… …and then we could see about finding the perfect teammate(s)!
idk yet what the form of it is going to look like, but I've got some sketches of ideas for creating a kind of meta-team that is working on various object-level projects while pushing the frontiers of noncoercive collaboration could imagine you being involved with that!
@xuenay Haha somehow this tweet 👇 got tweeted as a top-level tweet instead of reply to Kaj. Before I could delete it it got a like so I'm gonna leave it there as funny serendipity. But anyway, I do mean the below much more specifically in relation to you, Kaj.
either twitter glitched or I used a wrong hotkey haha that tweet👆 was supposed to be a reply to this one 👇 oh well, it's kind of funny on its own, with "you" now meaning "whoever is reading the tweet"!
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@uncatherio Maybe you DON'T have "hobbies." You just ... do things that seem like good things to do, with substantial va…
@ben_r_hoffman @uncatherio I'm gettin' in on the @ben_r_hoffman appreciation club! (...is this a hobby? 🤔🙃)
resonates with a shift I experienced right around the same time, where I stopped pushing myself to integrate stuff in any kind of rushed way, and shifted to integrating stuff in a way that gets deep buy in
one way to put it:
another:
@michael_nielsen Hmmm kind of reminds me of this idea I'm feeling into here, although my idea involves way more fluidity rather than a formal institution. But still ultimately I'm imagining it being a channel for people to get funded to do meaningful work.
@MilanGriffes @nickcammarata @xuenay I'm kiiiiinda working on this. This is what I've published so far: malcolmocean.com/2020/11/meta-t…
Retweeted @nickcammarata
As our tools for unrepressing emotional-memory and editing them become more safe and effective we'll start to see it as…
Equanimity as not freedom from preferences and aversions but rather freedom to fully experience and be moved by your preferences and aversions, including experiencing the natural movement of integration when these conflict, rather than stuckness. twitter.com/abhayance/stat…
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna Fyeah. Inspired this in me:
@collegraphy Yeah, what I've got in mind is some combo of a lot of ownership and self-directedness etc, plus some dialoguing frameworks that help make "identifying+solving deep disagreements" itself a very energy-releasing & attractive process. One piece of vision: malcolmocean.com/2020/11/meta-t…
@JimmyRis Cool, adding it to a list of case studies.
Replying to @vitabenes
@vitabenes Because it's working great and your idea of what it's supposed to do is what's in error.
So @SarahAMcManus wandered into my room, where this page was up in the background, and she was like "is slack... poly?"
“don’t even try to make yourself a certain, very specific way. And, even more so, don’t ever try to move forward without understanding why you’re not already that way.” Beware, beware, “I should just be able to do X…” —@meditationstuff meditation protocol rothos.github.io/protocol_1/
^on the plus side (arguably) such coherence-unaware self-modification attempts will usually fail, as the unconscious generator won't let itself be overwritten 👇 ...OTOH, it won't necessarily fail *gracefully* 😬 Lots of compartmentalization possible.
Before going meta, chop wood, carry water. After going meta, chop wood, carry water.
@MilanGriffes It's way better than it could be. But still loads of room for improvement & it's hard to properly care about UX when your customers are advertisers not users. Direct conflict of interest. Before Twitter was trying to monetize, they had one of the most epic APIs. So many clients.
What possessions of yours* have you owned the longest? *(that you've interacted with in the last month, not just stuff buried in storage) From memory: - a staff found when I was like 12 - ipod shuffle 2gen (14) - guitar (15) - a lil hymnbook (16) - blue man group spin art (18)
@harveykrishna_ Whoa, gorgeous!
@juvoni B,D,A,C B looks super excited and playful! feels like we could get up to meaningful mischief
@m_ashcroft Yeah, Goal-Crafting Intensive. "Setting" felt too... mechanistic or something. Btw! The upcoming round of GCIs are now live! Haven't really started marketing them yet (this is literally the first tweet) but tickets are available: complice.co/event/plan2021…
@lyoshenka @Falkvinge Mmm nice! Yeah, I picked this book up awhile back but haven't gone deep into it. And who are you? Oh, you're building @LBRYcom. I checked it out briefly awhile back but kinda bounced off it for some reason.
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania @Conaw Make an account on roamresearch.com and start pasting some stuff in, and check out some guides by eg @nateliason
@juvoni Could make B your cover photo!
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia Yeah this blog post of mine is mostly like "here's this thing that is tough, maybe I can put some better words to it being tough than you've seen before" but there's really no solution or answer or anything. malcolmocean.com/2019/10/the-ch…
@mesolude I have some custom search engines which get me to past tweets from myself with just a few keypresses. I also have twf for searching just tweets from people I follow. also helpful, date filters: since:yyyy-mm-dd until:yyyy-mm-dd
named after my mother's father's (father's)ⁿ father who was King of Scotland many centuries ago (haven't quite figured out if Malcolm III or IV) as for why my parents named me that... iirc they considered a few ancestors, and probably just felt into it & went with it.
> Eating the shadow is not about becoming "nice." Quite the opposite. It is about becoming a clued-up monster—one that knows accurately what it likes and loathes, and why.
@Tau_Phillips Yeah that seems like an obvious pareto improvement. Here's a more wild idea that I think has something to it:
Retweeted @fablor
The Oxford comma wins again. twitter.com/BCDreyer/statu…
These news shows are all owned & run by the same corp, which sometimes gives them all the same script to read... which kinda makes sense? Like a hundred Hamlet performances. ...still creepy to experience, and 😬🤨🙃 given the subject matter.
@startuployalist Source?! This is super relevant to something I've been working on. (relevant👇)
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I just heard an analogy: consider all human beings as iPhones with three major kinds of apps—except Internal Family Sy…
What's the secret to great comedy?
@generativist Wow I love this articulation ♥
Enthused enthusiasm as someone tries out my app 😊
@lyoshenka @LBRYcom Mmm, cool, well let's stay in touch as things flow forward. I'm expecting a lot of platforms to emerge that play various roles in all of this, from content to collaboration... thinking about @petheth's @MetaFam which I was checking out this morning.
@lyoshenka @Falkvinge @LBRYcom Oh so cool! Yeah, very neat to see the kind of long-game of following people. This guy was one of the main people who bought a digital copy of my album years & years ago, and then here he is tweeting at me a few months ago:
Retweeted @nosilverv
Dog passes mirror self-recognition test, becomes self aware and immediately descends into an existential crisis https://t.co…
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 1 of 35 tweets
Looping back around to the first tweet in this thread, which is apparently not available anymore (☹️) but was cats seeing their humans faces cat-ified by an app and going "whaaa", here we have a dog maybe having an identity crisis.
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa > I'd like to fix that With most people I would assume they mean "become the sort of person who'd be more welcome there" but knowing you this is at least as likely to mean "fix India so that it's more welcoming to the sort of person I am" 😂🚀
Given that twitter said they wouldn't #DeactivateTrump because he was POTUS, I've been wondering if his account is going to get deactivated on Jan 20th... ...below is sort of a decent case for doing it sooner, though would probably make an embarrassment of the @POTUS acct.
Me: "I'm sure you have a deep & coherent reason for doing these apparently-senseless things ♥️" @SarahAMcManus: "…that would make a great Hallmark card 🤔" (we've been diving deep into Coherence Therapy)
Retweeted @ben_r_hoffman
@Aella_Girl Don't make plans longer than a month. Do what's fun for any or no reason, what's terrifying if you have a go…
@umbersorrow ding dong little gong
@ben_r_hoffman @DiamonDie @BoylenBrian Ahh good to know. Baffling that he would have such a good schema for identifying CPTSD and not be able to recognize that almost everybody's got at least a few random bits of it from shit like school and so on. Maybe making this error?
Replying to @HHMusicOfficial
@maltybegray lol you ended up teasing yourself ...tbh this sometimes happens to me when I put on a cute skirt too
@AskYatharth Hugely with you on this. I have a quicksearch for it (twf)
slaving away down in the dopa-mines ⛏️
@SarahAMcManus @sashintweets Yeah it's more of an evolutionary process, even among adults, I think.
@ben_r_hoffman Are you saying that in some sense no presently existing system of law is legitimate? And are you saying there used to be legitimate law or that humanity has never had such? (and if the former, on what timescale did this change?)
@ben_r_hoffman Yes, all this makes sense to me.
@QiaochuYuan @ben_r_hoffman huh! I've done some stuff like this intuitively at times, I think, feeling into different postures then wiggling also wow, I was just wiggling for 30s while reading this exchange, and now that I'm typing my shoulder has a bunch of tension 🤔
@AskYatharth @callumflack Yeah this definitely checks out.
@diviacaroline @startuployalist He apparently has an IFS self-therapy book tho:
@michaelcurzi If you wanted me to feel heard & understood, you would be responding like you heard me and understood me.
@Conaw @RoamResearch Ahh I kinda did! wf2roam. Haven't used it to import everything though because I have too many roam dbs, so didn't hit this issue. So it doesn't actually directly handle this particular issue atm. I'll see about adding that sometime this week.
@Conaw You already know this but for future-searcher reference, @maxkriegers has some designs on this he's working to implement:
@Conaw @maxkriegers Meanwhile I have some ideas for how to do chat on top of roam, and it mostly wants immutable blocks, so that people can't like, accidentally (or on purpose) edit each others' messages later. And to make the messages more like tweets/deliverables:
@SarahAMcManus @nosilverv @MalcolmOcean Just found this now when I tried searching to see if anyone had tagged @MalcolmOcean (not my handle, unfortunately; I've got an underscore) Incredible timing tho. Literally that week I was staring at self-organized criticality! A thread:
I posit that you've got some sort of genius magic that you want to unleash on the world. What's your best guess at what's bottlenecking you on making that happen? A: idk what it is B: idk where to start C: overworked/overwhelmed D: need help w parts of it E: other + elaborate!
I wanna call this "based" but I'm almost worried I might debase it by doing so.
Retweeted @Aella_Girl
don't go to school, it's bad for you
@pauljfindley1 @Aella_Girl Got an engineering degree at a top school; incentives are still shit. > School taught me to write banal garbage b/c ppl would 👍 it > now trying express my plans in writing, my mind keeps simulating some imaginary prof who'll look it over & go “good enuf” malcolmocean.com/2015/06/unlear…
@pauljfindley1 @Aella_Girl School and its adverse effects start way earlier than that.
This is more accurate than ppl realize about real life too. Huge amount of energy will be unleashed by orgs that are coherently aligned towards real human values, compared to existing orgs that are at best goodharting & at worst evil, thus their humans unconsciously sabotage.
Retweeted @rsnous
Cartogram of Canada is so weird
I resonate strongly with @rsnous' comment below, in general. The context included @rsnous using a metaphor of picking up a crayon to color something to describe an interaction he was wanting to have. The simplicity & at-hand-ness of the crayon is huge. #MetaphorsMatter
Fuck Pinterest.
@ssica3003 the first one is still skeptical. remove the hand and it's practically 🤨 I made these custom guys for more like "hmm fun idea!" and I have them on some slacks. Plus ofc :thinking-heart:
@nabeelqu @TrentonBricken If you haven't watched this clip (iirc @JoHenrich mentions it in SooS) definitely do. Chimps learn from others by observing what is possible. Humans actually copy exactly, even if it might seem unnecessary (idk if these kids are interviewed about that!) youtube.com/watch?v=Jwwcly…
@friedmandave @nabeelqu @gitlab @automattic is another and @Shopify went all-in on remote early in the pandemic oh and ofc @basecamp basecamp.com/remote-resourc…
Reading this I can't help but see our twitter scenius as an example of #1. We're not a startup—yet. I'm working on it. Well, sort of. I've always been more of a lifestyle biz guy.
@Conaw @nabeelqu @RoamResearch Guessing long-term that Roam will max out both of these dimensions and queer this binary hard.
@visakanv "Once you reprogram your failure response, then you really just want to be studying your own failures as much as you can bear." — Visakan Veerasamy
Replying to @abhayance
@TylerAlterman those in the know just call it the TribeTribeTribe
@nickcammarata @tweetsbenedict Btw @nickcammarata I think you're spooking people a bit by using the word "edit", because most editable things are overwriteable, and people don't know how reconsolidation works and that
@uncatherio @ssica3003 s'all good 🙃
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
"...You don't want combinatorics at 2am; I am abandoned forever" - @Malcolm_Ocean
I want a version of the eye 👁️ emoji but rotated 90° like a third eye.
Why don't contacts apps have a proper way to indicate "this is a dead email/address/number for this person; never select it for future use, but continue to associate old logs to/from it with this person"? This is such a basic problem.
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl ♥️ inexplicably scary to approach figuring out why, too? Wondering what arises for you when you read this template...
@ponekarl also worth noting that "the most important thing" is a label for something that's a conjecture… maybe your scariness represents an important critique of that conjecture, that needs to be incorporated in order for your plan to not be a disaster! I find this is often the case 🙂
Just realized Canada's 1867 Confederation came just 2 years after US Civil War ended, and that this was allegedly part of why it was "designed with a stronger central government". That... makes sense. Damn. Weird that growing up I didn't hear about supra-national context.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federatio…
Retweeted @ben_r_hoffman
We all need help deserving the kind of trust that we desperately need others to deserve, because we have all been intimi…
@ben_r_hoffman This is a pretty good articulation of one of the main things I'm working on at the moment! I might describe it as "the process by which people can come to trust each other as much as they can without being naive, and by which people can come to be more trustworthy."
@ponekarl or actually, put even slightly more clearly, I would say "maybe the scariness' critique needs to be incorporated in order for the thing to _actually_ be the most important thing and not just a toy model
@lastcrazyhorn What's the thing you think you need more training &/ credentials for? Let's see if we can find another path to tap your magic ✨
Thread · Background intentions, relationship to goals, and the Goal-Crafting Intensive
Yup, sometimes you can put an intention in the background and your system will make it happen. That clarity makes a difference. Honestly sometimes *trying* to do something directly can generate resistance. All of that is stuff we talk about at these online workshops we run.
Tickets are now available for the upcoming Goal-Crafting Intensives, btw! 6 sessions around New Year's. Click this link to check it out, or keep reading this thread for more relevant thoughts. complice.co/event/plan2021…
Okay, other relevant thoughts. @ThreadHelper, help me out. Where's that thread where I talk about what happens when you remove key ingredients from a goal, like that cookie experiment someone did? Ah great, yup, here it is:
Now what about the thread about how naming goals is kind of like ritual magic? (@ThreadHelper isn't finding this one for me, but that's fine, I can search it. TH is still also magical.)
For anyone who's skeptical of the entire idea of goals, here's a long thread that thoroughly points out that basically all issues with goals are actually issues with one's *relationship* to goals, and probably exist towards your implicit goals anyway.
If the word "goal" doesn't work for you, no worries. It's just a pointer to whatever you deeply want. If you can get really clear on what you want, and let yourself do it, it can flow! And—that's not always easy. So you need approaches in the meantime.
Here's @m_ashcroft with a tweet and some discussion about how he prefers the word "intention" over "goal".
Here's a rave review from last year 🔥
The workshop isn't just a bunch of lecture content & exercise. It's got a little of those, but it's choose-your-own-adventure: work through at your own pace & talk with coaches to get unstuck or for general advice. Link for Dec & Jan events: complice.co/event/plan2021…
@m_ashcroft Muaha I actually used your tweet here as jumping off point for the first thread about the upcoming sessions!
@nosilverv brain hemispheres man I think it's possible to simultaneously have: • LH monomaniacally focused • RH infinite awareness The two have to share a body and in some senses "consciousness", but they can learn to synergize pretty damn effectively I think.
Thread · When unblending goes too far and internal parts get reified · 8 of 9 tweets
Very possible to take unblending too far & reify the parts. "Part", as @AskYatharth gets to lower down, is only useful as shorthand for acknowledging internal conflict: "Part of me wants X" is true of any want, but unless other parts *disagree*, we usually just say "I want X".
To take a trivial example, say that you have the following wants: A) go get a snack B) finish writing a tweet thread While conflicted: "part of me wants A, part of me wants B" But, if parts assent, can rearrange to "I want to A then B" or "I want to B then A".
Or maybe: "I want to both go get a snack and finish writing a tweet thread, but I think on net what I want to do is finish writing the thread and save room in my belly for dinner which is coming up" And lol if a part objects you will discover yourself doing something else 🤷♀️🙃
That bit is important! Very easy when approaching non-self-coercion to feel like you must force yourself not to force yourself to do things. My take: try saying "I choose X" [despite inner conflict] but if that doesn't work, then don't double down.
And, where possible, give yourself space to let the problem solve you, in the background, while lots of other things shake out.
Lol I'm just rambling at this point. Where did this thread start? Oh yeah, parts. Anyway, the experience of "parts" is because various systems are stuck in a traffic jam and not able to allow each other to give into their various temptations.
Consider the phrase "I allow myself to X". The shift that @AskYatharth is pointing at is from identifying with the "I" to the "myself". The feeling is an experience of "I'm free to do what I want!"
Recommended further reading… this chapter of The Guru Papers, which talks extensively about how people reify parts of themselves as good and parts as bad, and how the two rely on each other to justify their own existence & frame. docs.google.com/document/d/1HK…
@AskYatharth I know there's a icon now to see QTs, but I still feel like I want to comment here being like "I wrote a thread building on yours"
you're just trying to trick me into saying something clever, aren't you
Realization re Phase 2: reconsolidation usually involves feeling some sense of agency around destructive behaviors, and for many people these likely include stuff that mainstream society considers NOT OKAY to do on purpose. Gotta disown that culture.
There are a few different approaches to disowning the mainstream culture. Ultimately to some extent you need to have a sense of a nonjudgmental culture that other real people you know actually hold. Auxiliarily, can also try to cultivate your own vibe:
Tickets now available for our yearly Goal-Crafting Intensives, a unique online workshop that doesn't exhaust you with hours of zoom, but instead gives you space to work on sorting out your life, plus a private channel with coaches to get unstuck or advice! complice.co/event/plan2021…
@mattgoldenberg Yeah we might name the event and the concept of "goal" somewhat differently if we were inventing the event from scratch now, but it's hard to avoid these kinds of issues since people project their old ideas onto new things anyway.
@mattgoldenberg Another great example of that:
We said we were going to do this "for the time being". And we did. But the Time Being is a hungry god, and he demanded ever more sacrifice.
@ben_r_hoffman Whenever there's a loud sound I usually harmonize with it. Some machines have a nice hum, car alarms usually have a beep with a rhythm I can polyrhythm with. Sirens are harder but still doable. Haven't tried that with my worst enemy yet though: motorcycles & muscle cars 🤔
> "I sometimes catch myself trying to subtly force some version of 'acceptance' that I think I'm supposed to be having as a spiritual practitioner,. But acceptance doesn't need to be forced, it arises naturally if I l slow down and allow a complete experience of my objections."
— Romeo Stevens Source: this fb post. facebook.com/romeostevens/p…
Replying to @fail_sun
Replying to @memeticpower
@tyson_flows I'm down!
.@SarahAMcManus: I wanna talk more about this, and I want to buzz my hair. Wait, do I want to talk while buzzing? I don't want that. Me: Yep I inferred your preference 2s before you did. Talk later! S: You're coherently extrapolating my volitions! M: Aww yeah, you'll like that 😉
@deewhock Reminds me of this investment advice, which is completely the opposite:
Retweeted @azlenelza
Announcing Interhackt, a hackathon to push the boundaries of interaction design The event is open to anyone whether you are…
@azlenelza @KHPavle Oh fyeah! I may be travelling some of that week, but would love to at least pop in and comment on what people are doing 🚀
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." — Marcus Aurelius This is one of my favorite quotes, and @mattgoldenberg's tweet below highlights what it means to me.
Applies with interpersonal relationships too, although there there's a whole deeper challenge—to affirm & honor others' needs & any distrust of you, without negating any of your own experience or self-trust or needs. Still: integrating obstacles to trust are how trust is built.
Sometimes I feel like if I never needed to eat or go to the bathroom, I would be so perfectly focused. But it occurs to me also that I would probably be *too* focused, like those patients with right hemisphere damage who forget for hours to look away from something eye-catching.
Vaguely thinking about twitter & timezones, and wondering how many people there are in the world who intentionally maintain a weird sleep schedule for the primary purpose of convincing someone (or everyone) that they're in a timezone they're not. A dozen? 100? 10k? Prolly rare.
@acidshill bahaha I've always found myself a little sad when playing a puzzle game where you always only have exactly enough resources to solve it oddly makes the search WAY easier idk if game designers know this? probably they know this. but sometimes feels like they don't
@visakanv Can we strategically exploit this? I'm thinking about Senge noting in intro to 2nd edition of Fifth Discipline that he wrote it to get ahead of a fad he successfully predicted would show up in the 90s about "Learning Organizations", to emphasize systems thinking not just fluff.
me, under my breath to myself just now: muscles are so cool! they're like... stuff that does!
Retweeted @Roamfu
I attended the last one and I highly recommend The way they run it also gives you a lot of ideas if you plan to create your ow…
Retweeted @diviacaroline
Prices aren’t perfect. Prices aren’t even necessarily “good enough”. So I’m reminded of this classic post from @pault…
If: • "perfect is the enemy of good" • "good enough is the enemy of at all" • "my enemy's enemy is my friend" Then: ↳ ...perfect and at all are friends? 🤔 ...sounds suspiciously monist-eternalist.
Thread · Why I never finish the online courses I buy
The number of online courses I have signed up for & not actually completed is absurdly high. Especially self-paced ones but even like… I dropped out of @fortelabs' BASB halfway. Watched a lil of @nateliason Roam course. Early backer on @m_ashcroft's AT course, haven't touched.
Signed up for @mattgoldenberg's Procrastination Playbook bootcamp and didn't go to most of the sessions. He held a pretty good container for us exploring what schemas might have been active for me around "homework" & shoulds & stuff there though—kudos.
And that's far from a complete list. Part of this probably reflects not so much a lack of follow-through but an over-optimism about *buying* courses, only to discover that they don't really feel like they're addressing my real situation/bottleneck.
The only online course I can recall completing is @ribbonfarm Longform blogging course and I'm sure that was online possible because it was live & had an external deliverable. Felt less like a course and more like "onramp to RF guest post".
I want like... a thing where when I go on twitter, my feed randomly includes content from online courses I've signed up for, not just tweets. Why can't this content be folded into my natural dopamine hooks? Hmm...
I'm taking in a deeper layer of this experience of mine is a huge part of why the Goal-Crafting Intensives we host are structured the way they are: • a couple optional pre-event exercises • live 5h sessions w 10min vids, exercises & coaches complice.co/event/plan2021…
Even the pre-event exercises are quite compatible with people not doing it all at once but kind of opening it up periodically randomly. 💭 Dream List benefits from background rumination & reverie. 📅 Time Audit benefits from logging over the course of a week.
@AskYatharth can your co-lifing concept create an ongoing platform that gets people doing courses together? Maybe even different courses, just like, showing up to learn together! Or maybe a Complice coworking room explicitly for working MOOCs & other online courses… hmm 🤔
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
Loopy model of reasons your life sucks. Credit to @theorangealt for the model. Play around with it to see how much ac…
Retweeted @reasonisfun
Thread on: willpower vs wantpower enlightenment-oriented (feel good internally) vs heaven-oriented (affect the extern…
Hold the line Love isn't always on time
@mijustin Just came across this 5y later and am struck by how @RoamResearch has 41k followers 1 year after creation while @Conaw, despite substantial growth in that same phase (5× or more) is around 25k. Wonder what makes the difference?
@derrickreimer Oho, you were building a slack replacement? Quite a space to be in. I've been thinking about this for awhile and about how someone might actually do something *new* for virtual text-based conversations.
@derrickreimer Here's a page where I've started exploring how I might go about designing something that uses a better underlying metaphor than slack does: intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
@derrickreimer My guess (based on reading the original Level manifesto and the postmortem) is that you didn't actually have a new metaphor, you just had a really good articulation of a pain point.
@derrickreimer Making a better conversation app is one of my top priorities for projects I want to invest in as a VC-not-of-money-but-of-metaphor-design-and-strategy (I just made up this term) so let me know if you want to talk and explore something here!
The album is called "Calming Releases" 😂 SEO was just the beginning of algorithm hacking.
Can't guarantee you'll have the same results as @AskYatharth in that thread from a month ago (link in next tweet) but our GCI coaches are definitely wizards who understand deep change not just trying to push yourself hard again and again. Tix: complice.co/event/plan2021…
Aforementioned thread. This is cool stuff:
The left wants to take away your rights as a result of the year twitter.com/SkyeFangs/stat…
@nickcammarata yep. though it's fun to iterate, and part of what's nice about twitter is there's no edit button so no sense that the past ones should be rephrased, instead just: here's a new phrasing
@brandontoner @Roamfu Fyeah! Invite your friends :D (We used to encourage people to have in-person GCI hangouts, but that's much less workable now except within-bubble. Although maybe moreso for @brandontoner in NS? Hm.)
@AskYatharth The only losers are people who don't like win-wins.
@AskYatharth 747 ✈
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💀 societal broke: drill into kids: they better work hard → to be “good” 🦄 liberal woke: tell traumatised adults they ha…
Possibly the most ridiculous dream sequence of my life (so far)
me: ...so how about if you're responsible for everything you want to be responsible for, and responsible for making yourself not responsible for everything you don't want to be responsible for? @SarahAMcManus: that's so many words ...but it seems like they're the correct ones.
@danieljthomason what if instead of committing you just took some steps in some of those directions? sometimes it's hard to see which path is the one for you until you're a few steps down it.
@EntropicEdge join the institute institute
@nosilverv @misen__ @Rididelduol exactly, yeah so the "feels lame to ask" is actually its own whole thing that might be in the way of understanding why this pettiness DOES make sense to you. if it didn't make some kind of sense, you'd be doing some OTHER apparently senseless thing. QED.
@garybasin Do the designers not use the product themselves? (I swear often this is not the case, like literally the creators never tried using their thing ever.) That's incentive enough.
@cortexfutura @visakanv You may want to check out what Daniel Schmachtenberger is working on, which is a media site that does a ton of this synthesis & analysis.
Replying to @mijustin
@mijustin @RoamResearch @Conaw Oh interesting. I like the metaphor!
@jonathanburks @fortelabs @nateliason @m_ashcroft Eh I mean back in 2014 in the early days of complice.co Ramit Sethi's advertising convinced me that his course would solve my mktg problems but the hundreds of dollars I put into that basically came out of my student line of credit. "Free refund IFF you finish"
@derrickreimer Yeah those are mostly on the feature level, not on the meaning/metaphor level. Thinking about conversation, metaphors are basic moves, like speaking, pausing, listening, inquiring. "fishbowl" for observation maybe This piece of writing explores:
@kcorazo @fortelabs @nateliason @m_ashcroft Oh, maybe rebels/questioners are less likely to do self-paced courses or something?
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Barbell theory of invention - the place to look for the future is with elite performers who do weird hacks to win, and those wit…
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Went to bed but this has been on my mind so here’s a thread on the virtue of vanity. The word has a pretty clear history of…
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Also makes me think about @Malcolm_Ocean’s explorations around how unlearning trauma can be fun. If we can deceive our ‘s…
@lukebutler For folks' reference:
@AskYatharth "May I see the war and see it not as war." 😍
@generativist Noice.
Huh, just realized a course creator could do this very directly, by making a locked alt that tweets the course content out, and only allowing people who've purchased the course to follow you. @m_ashcroft, probably not a priority for your course, but if you wanted an experiment…
@AskYatharth @CountJ0ecool at your service
@voyageur_techno @fortelabs @nateliason @m_ashcroft Yeah, now I basically only do it when I also want to support the person's work, because then worst case it's like, they're still supported financially at least. But it's not ideal. Maybe we need to productize the whole GCI workshop format. Could build software optimized for it.
@telegram wtf I just joined and a person who has heard of me before but not a close friend or anything had a notification pop up saying "Malcolm Ocean has just joined" and we can see each others' numbers despite not adding to address book. Neither of us have imported contacts.
@utotranslucence I'm potentially interested, yeah! I found SDC lacking, and I feel like it would be cool although possible way-too-meta for this group to do a bit of design ideation on what ideal formats for the group itself might look like. And if multiple visions, maybe multiple groups!
So many past GCI participants QT'd this with enthusiastic recommendations! I've got both: on a personal level, warm fuzzies 🥰 on a business level, a sense of like "huh, marketing the previous events on twitter is now having compounding returns!" 😎🔄📈
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Tell me a problem and I will tell you the obvious solution you have already either tried or ruled out for a damn good r…
@danlistensto @cognazor @collinofzion
Curious what other people think of this. I haven't had such a distinction. And which way does the causal arrow go, if these are linked in the way he describes? @mattgoldenberg @AskYatharth @nosilverv @SarahAMcManus
@wholezero I really like your "unveil evil, then un-un un".
@wholezero @QiaochuYuan I'm into it. For posterity, because anicca etc, here's what it looks like atm:
Pretty pissed that Canada didn't take things all the way to zero in the summer when we were close. Like just when we were about to, we eased up, and so cases went back up. We could be having an ordinary winter with no cases. Quarantine Act strong enough to mandate this👇 I think twitter.com/thatalicewu/st…
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Thinking about what it means to be supported, and like, I think a pretty good analogy for what I want (in all domains and on all levels, not just this metaphor) is a pal who encourages & pep talks like "come on, you can do one more rep!" but never looks down on me if I can't.
Replying to @Delca__
did someone give acid to the Pipes screensaver from Windows 95?
> It is only a modest oversimplification to assert that either we are beating back Covid or it is beating back us, and we can’t just choose a point along a smooth curve. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
~> If current prevention is failing a cost-benefit test, that doesn’t mean the answer is less prevention, which might fail a cost-benefit test all the more, due to the power of non-local virus multiplication properties to shut down your economy & also take lives & instill fear.
> You still need to come up with a way of beating Covid back. Yeah people don't get this. This is what I'm pissed at "Canada" about. Pretty nebulous entity but there are lawmakers who didn't make the laws that the above quotes would obviously imply.
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @Conaw Somehow didn't see this at the time but @Conaw and I have actually known each other since 2015!
I will awaken dancing, or not at all.
(from a discussion of extended seated meditation practices, such as Zen)
see also
@AskYatharth @nickcammarata @limitoftruth "Brains are literally computers" is a huge map-territory error. Nothing is literally anything else. All communication is structural and metaphorical. You need to specify in what ways things are alike or different, or you will make confusions in your communications.
@meekaale @nosilverv @xuenay Mmm I'd throw some metaphor design at it. What meanings do you want to experience when walking in, when working, etc? What fictional - even fantastical - character might inhabit this workspace? What (metaphorically) would be built here? Tools? Starships?
I just got added to @jessems Technological Therapy list, along with @nosilverv, @xuenay, and @nickcammarata. Not sure exactly what it's pointing at, but curious to hear anybody's thoughts about what/who else might belong on this list! twitter.com/i/lists/133081…
what embodied actions do the people you chat with online evoke for you, with their digital moves?
@AskYatharth @nickcammarata @limitoftruth Brains obviously compute, but not everything that computes "is literally a computer". Almost everyone writes, but most would say no if if I asked "are you a writer?" There are all sorts of connotations implied. If you don't want ALL of those connotations, communicate better.
@AskYatharth @nickcammarata @limitoftruth And if you can't name a few differences between silicon computers* and brains, then you have a completely different problem! *plus our experience of interfacing with them, which is also part of the connotations For this problem, read… McGilchrist? hmm
not to mention the people who would say "yes" if I asked "are you a writer?" but who don't actually write 😆
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing If I read it as not a sarcastic/ironic remark, I'd say he's probably in a particular subtunnel of the self help guru reality that emphasizes productivity and autonomy and sort of takes for granted that you're single or just having casual relationships. I've been there.
@astralwave I say do it, but I always say "do it" to people who are considering anything like this, so that's not specific data to your situation but just a general comment of "I think people tend to err on the side of not doing stuff like this."
@MSlavin @m_ashcroft @theorangealt @Singularitarian @MagisterLudi18 one way in which good and evil end up being the same thing
Retweeted @visakanv
48. Communication is *fundamentally* lossy. Misunderstanding is the default condition. It’s crazy that we even kinda-sorta un…
I read this recently & I was initially like "nah complice.co is original!" then realized that while it's indeed unique and unmatched, it's totally a mashup of: • iDoneThis • Pick Four / Ziglar goal stuff • nowdothis.com (now dead) • pomodoro technique • &+
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa @visakanv I wouldn't be super surprised if you'd hit 100 already, many of which you don't know about. At least in terms of people starting, maybe not with finishing. But likely more like 30-60.
@ollybot_redux @mechanicalmonk1 it's like this
Replying to @chendabunkasem
once had a trippy & oddly-connective convo with my dad where I said something like "I'm not sure if I want to have kids—seems like a lot of important work to do in the world" & he said "I had similar thoughts, re climate & nukes, and figured I'd raise kids who could help" 😮🥺🥲
@edelwax @voyageur_techno @fortelabs @nateliason @m_ashcroft This looks really cool! Keep me posted on whether it works in the sense that people actually make it to the end and report learning something!
wow, I don't remember tweeting this (@ThreadHelper found it) it's kinda potent!
@visakanv Yeah, I've talked about those sources in a couple places but I don't think I've written up a proper blog post about it.
What's your favorite album that's not on all the main streaming services? (probably from an indie band in the 90s or 00s)
@nickcammarata @AskYatharth @limitoftruth Yeah my replies here were mostly critiquing the original remark, not so much yours. Kinda sloppy about where exactly I put my tweets.
@JimmyRis @AskYatharth @nickcammarata @limitoftruth I think there's a motte-bailey though where they already know that brains don't work like that, but then when you stop pointing it out they go back to thinking that everything's an equivalent turing machine and substrate-independent and completely arbitrary.
@mechanicalmonk1 @liminal_warmth also dunno about spotify playlists but this is my go-to "get in the groove to work for an hour" electronica mix it's trance-y, which is interesting because most of trace I don't particularly like soundcloud.com/vakioagency/bl…
Thread · Would You Rather as a non-coercive productivity technique
"Would You Rather" is usually known as a party game, but it can also be a productivity technique! #noncoercion Here's how: 1. Pick 2 things you might do {A, B} 2. Ask, "WYR do A, or B?" (say it's B) 3. Ask, "WYR do B, or C?" 4. continue until you'd rather do X than continue WYR!
I tagged the tweet #noncoercion because part of the whole point of this is to train your capacity to notice: • your own preferences & appetites • that you can choose to do things that you want • you don't need to do "the best thing" • you don't really need any reasons at all
And you can get out of this game any time, including in a way that's compatible with the game: just ask "would I rather do this thing (my current best candidate) or would I rather just stop doing this WYR thing?"
You can also do meta-stuff... like if you've been putting off P for weeks: • "would I rather do P or reflect on why I haven't done P yet?" • "…P or brainstorm ways to approach P?" • "…P or explain why P is actually impossible?"
I invented this approach spontaneously when a friend of mine was really stuck at one point and having trouble accessing any sense of appetite, and we ended up doing some fun things and fixing a thing she'd been putting off for awhile.
If you'd like to experience me spontaneously inventing novel approaches to places where *you're* stuck, check out this online workshop with content, coworking, & live coaching by me and a bunch of other cool peeps. complice.co/event/plan2021…
I was really in touch with some general cybernetics / systems thinking principles around the time I wrote this tweet. Slightly less in touch with those now, and a little concerned about that. Maybe an inspiration to get back into spaced repetition…
@visakanv I was initially trying to come up with something super meta but then I was like actually concretely: spreading the word about the Goal-Crafting Intensives! Your FANs would likely vibe quite a lot with the workshop on many levels and get lots from it. complice.co/event/plan2021…
@visakanv Actually as I was writing that tweet it occurred to me that you might make an awesome coach for the event too! (Given your skill at advising people via DM 😛) And I think you'd have a blast doing it. I've already recruited @nosilverv this year:
@visakanv @nosilverv Coaching basically consists of hanging out in dozens of chat threads at once and helping people get unstuck on whatever level of abstraction seems relevant. Some of the coaches are familiar with the workshop video content & exercises, but lots (probably most) aren't.
@visakanv @nosilverv Part of what's fun about it is you get to pick which coaching channels you want to respond, because there are 6-10 other coaches to answer if you don't. And you get to see how others reply!
Retweeted @Conaw
Get yourself a man who does both
Post below something you'd like encouragement about & I will encourage you! 🔥🚀 Maybe a project you're working on, something you're learning, or any challenging situation🧗♂️ (Consider yourself also encouraged to encourage other people in this thread!)
Post below something you part of you feels you should finish but also you're kinda DONE with 😣😬🙄 and you'd like someone to say "it's okay for you to ditch that if that's what makes sense" 😮 and then I'll say "it's okay for you to ditch that if that's what makes sense" 🙃
@magicianbrain it's okay to stop striving if that's what makes sense 🤲
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@reasonisfun This (image excerpt) is why my book recommendation system would have people not read David Deutsch without also reading Iain McGilchrist.
@garbledgarfield Yeah, do it! Lead with your excitement. Even if you haven't done all of the background stuff, there's a reason you really want this internship!
Retweeted @Conaw
My opinion: This is why @RoamResearch has a cult. We make certain things so fast -- citing another idea via [[page links]] or…
@visakanv @QiaochuYuan @nosilverv Awesome! The timing might be a bit weird for SG… the events are in pairs, on weekends, and each first-in-pair will be like 7am-noon for you, and each 2nd-in-pair will be like midnight-5am for you 🤔 But you could just come for like 10am-noon and midnight-2am or something 🤷♀️
@grantadever @jacktaddeo @visakanv super random but taddeo reminds me of tadow (groovy song) youtube.com/watch?v=hC8CH0…
Replying to @jack24dd30
@jacktaddeo "the rebellion will not be available as part of your Netflix subscription"
Retweeted @alexeyguzey
tfw you realize that the best contemporary corroboration of the great man theory comes from a single kazakhstani woman who…
@coyotespike @sonyasupposedly @alexeyguzey Yeah it's a real gamechanger to have a place you can go where you expect to find "anything in this category" as opposed to just "maybe they'll have it." It's part of why people go to big stores and malls. Changes "try" to "do".
@csageland @visakanv @QiaochuYuan @nosilverv Haha okay ♥️ While respecting your "no" and not wanting to pressure... wanting to make sure there's clarity on what's possible: You could also do just like 9am-noon of the 7am-noon events or something. Or just of one event! There isn't a minimum obligation.
Replying to @oluoluoxenfree
@oluoluoxenfree Yeah, I remember you! Basically the same content, yeah, though nobody gets through every exercise so there's still lots of new stuff to do, plus the coaching is always new. You could try signing up for multiple sessions and just coming to 2-3 hours of each. Works for some 🙂
@vivavolt Mmmm, I feel ya! And working for someone else can make sense! Particularly… • for the short-term 🏃♂️ • for someone you really want to work with 🤩 • to remind yourself how much you love working for yourself 🙃 …and while you're doing it, might as well accept you're doing it!
PSA: I almost always use the woman emoji on here 🤷♀️ because she's likes purple and has long hair, like me. We need to talk about underrepresentation of long-haired men in iconography. 🙅♀️ ...I'm not actually wanting to open that convo up in its usual form 🤦♀️ This tweet = parody.
still kinda pissed that it takes *time* to do things
pretty sure this is my left hemisphere feels that if the problem is conceptually solved (I know all the steps) then it should happen instantly
It's a vicious lack of cycle.
Yo @RoamResearch @thepericulum #roamcult did I hit a weird hotkey or something? My block-refs are showing up without underlines, like they're just ordinary text until I go to edit the block.
Would be nice to have a log of such hotkeys pressed so you could go revert them if you press them accidentally.
Was it due to oversight or a lack of oversight?
@DavidCrandall_W @visakanv I mean same thing happens with "British accent". Canada (where I'm from) definitely has some subtle regionalisms, but aside from some Atlantic ones such as Newfie & Cape Breton accents (both Irish-influenced) most Canadians can't name any or particularly distinguish them.
@visakanv "YouTuber accent" likely of interest to @GretchenAMcC
@Conaw oh weird af the 0.5px border-bottom disappears at 150% and 175% zoom on Brave (same engine as Chrome) y'all probably just want that to be 1px, which looks the same but doesn't have the issue—I'm guessing although maybe 0.5px looks better on retina
@SpencrGreenberg Whenever I'm trying to talk numbers with someone who knows more about the situation than me but claims to "have no idea" because they haven't read "How To Measure Anything", I just walk them through a confidence interval process by naming some extreme values. Cunningham's Law.
@SpencrGreenberg recent example, verbatim from chat history — — — me: do you have a lower bound on how long it'll be til the API is available to everyone? X: nope unfortunately not me: hm, so like, it could launch next week? X: oh definitely not next week definitely not by the end of the year
@SpencrGreenberg A little harder when seeking an average, but you can just try naming some datapoints and seeing if they're common, unusual, super-rare, or never-seen. I think @juliagalef had a thread on this at some point.
@SpencrGreenberg @juliagalef I will also caveat that there are many important situations where the idea of averages being a useful way to understand things is fundamentally confused! Average-based reasoning was developed for charting planets, not for complex systems like humans.
@andy_matuschak Shortly after @waitbutwhy got a ton of backers on @Patreon, he went into a hole for over a year to do some really long-form writing. Pretty cool experiment imho. I think he intended it to be shorter but (as things do) it ballooned into a huge project.
@andy_matuschak @headgameus This blog post of mine (considered by many to be my best piece of writing) represents a year of struggling with a question both conceptually and experientially. Nearly 4k words, but still a blog post. malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
@andy_matuschak @headgameus Part of the issue though is that I can only write 1-3 such posts in a given year. Maybe a collective/curated newsletter that each author gets to submit 1-3 items to per year? Hmm. Now I'm imagining a print magazine you can read by the fire with a cup of cocoa.
Replying to @m_altcroft
@m_altcroft I had a weird phase for a year (~2019) where he was following me and I wasn't following him (he was really cynical around that time and I was paring back and trusted retweets to get me enough exposure) ended up following so I'd be a "mutual" for threadapalooza rec
@nosilverv It's like being carried around on one of those things they had for royals except it's your own lower hafl
@meditationstuff @JasnaSeishin @selentelechia @uncatherio @tasshinfogleman @misen__ @peak_valley_pea @quotidiania @yung_shishtov Haven't read this in depth but just came across it and figured it wanted to be here even if more "tips" than "highly technical" in the "detailed model" sense.
@benskuhn 😂 were you actually googling "hard problems to work on", or...?
So here's an interesting thing. Me and many others (some with expertise) reasoned way back in March that aerosols weren't in practice sources of covid transmission. Now it seems the conclusion is they definitely are. Oops. But... why oops? Why this particular oops?
Well, implicitly, it seems like "airborne" carries connotations that are more specific than just "does ever spread by aerosol". It pulls up the image of measles, which has an R₀ of like 15. This image, from February, illustrates the question being posed here.
And it seems, awkwardly, that the answer didn't fall neatly into the natural categories that were available, so... we missed it. I think this is a huge piece of "why oops". Modus tollens applied imprecisely: "not as contagious as measles ⇒ not airborne" twitter.com/jpsalvesen/sta…
On a different level, the initial mask shortage fiasco also probably muddied waters. If cloth masks mostly block droplets but not aerosol (which I gather is the case) then they're way more useful in a world where aerosol transmission is mostly not a factor. Motivated reasoning?
figuring @diviacaroline & @WilliamAEden would appreciate this, as I remember talking about this stuff with them at the time
@QiaochuYuan oh shit those are 2 different things? I mean I guess they are in the sense that they're on different levels of abstraction
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this is good shit, y'all. I've attended 4 times in 3 years. It's helped me & others find our communities, keep dreams in motio…
Retweeted @captain_mrs
Got nerdsniped, drew the complement to monk's diagram
@michael_nielsen I got a lot of out @kenmcleod's exposition of his translation of the Three Lines That Hit The Nail On The Head from Tibetan Buddhism. tricycle.org/magazine/trans…
@michael_nielsen @kenmcleod I wrote this little poem inspired by an eye-opening experience I had shortly after reading that piece:
@sagar__dubey @xuenay Hmm like coworking in 2 senses: - the physical aspect, with other people in Helsinki - the working-on-a-project-with-other-people-aspect, with people around the world (who would eg be able to see if Kaj didn't do anything for a month) Satisfying those separately rather together!
Huh, bit of history I didn't know! (1950s) > Egyptian government objected to Canadian peacekeeping forces on the grounds that the Canadian flag (the Red Ensign 👇) contained the same symbol (the Union Flag) also used as a flag by the United Kingdom, one of the belligerents (!)
Exciting to see people building & testing #TwitterReplacement ideas! twitter.com/sarah_cone/sta…
Replying to @sarah_cone
@sarah_cone @suavelambi Interesting! Reminds me of a comment that Daniel Schmachtenberger makes in here about the incredible power of sexual selection on memes (ie behaviors). I forget how he phrases it but something about rapid change being possible if eg women say "we want x" youtube.com/watch?v=hKvVdG…
Retweeted @nntaleb
Artisanal drug dealers get arrested & get long jail sentences. Legal drug dealers kill at an industrial scale, with impunity.…
This is some really subtle fuckery. Try some experiments like measuring whether the circles move and covering the arrows. I *think* this is sorta the visual equivalent of a shepard tone, though I only have a half-guess as to how they're pulling it off.
Yeah this similar thing (by the same artist, @jagarikin) illustrates the kind of illusion happening here.
oh fuck this one is really trippy
🤬🤬🤬
me to @SarahAMcManus, while packing: "...why doesn't my ukulele fit inside my guitar like a russian doll?" 🤔
@psobot @vulfpeck also shoutout to @posobin's Ampie for pointing out to me that you'd shared the link
Thread · Source and helpers vs. leader and follower metaphors · 5 of 7 tweets
@SeanMombo I don't think there is a single "context of Leader vs Follower". I've recently been digging Peter Koenig's "Source" model, where a source doesn't have followers but helpers (ppl helping realize their vision). I might've used "channeler" or something to extend "source" metaphor 🤔
@SeanMombo Great summary of that model on workwithsource.com I've seen lots of people try to adopt this model and end up talking about "source and follower" though, which is a huge type error in my opinion. Like referring to your kid as an employee.
@SeanMombo Taking the "leader & follower" metaphor seriously, one might reanimate it as "trailblazer" and "signposter" or something. Like one who finds a new route and another who makes it more easy to traverse for future. Idk.
@SeanMombo I've led myself to an odd take here: perhaps in this sense a "thought leader" is arguably more legitimately doing *leadership* than a captain of a team or head of a company. The thought leader has new thoughts before other people have them, and others follow afterwards.
@SeanMombo Whereas the head of a company isn't *leading* people anywhere in the metaphorical sense. Although I guess in the sense of having a vision first, though in some sense that's a subcase of thought leadership 😆
@AskYatharth @spiral_virus I was thinking yesterday about how "lol" is its own thing that exists fully in the silent realm, & that that's a necessary role and contrasting that with an utterance like "I burst out laughing when I read that" which explicitly imports my situated physicality into the text
Thread · Source and helpers vs. leader and follower metaphors · 2 of 7 tweets
@SeanMombo I think it's important to explicitly differentiate: - Source of vision - role model - mentor - manager/director - star performer (vs supporting actor / backup singer) & many more
@SeanMombo @CoryWong has a great clip about being a sideman, and he explicitly talks about vision but also kind of about the frontman, so that's the first & last of the bullets in the previous tweet. Those two could (in music or other contexts) be separate though. youtube.com/watch?v=Swh4uZ…
@tylerdurdy @visakanv @mattgoldenberg uhhh probably "do 100 responses" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@mattgoldenberg Most helpful thing for me here has been grokking what Gregory Bateson means by "Mind". Tough though because he's hard to read. So for this I'd recommend: • Bateson chapter of Uncommon Wisdom by Fritjof Capra • An Ecology of Mind docu by @NoraBateson • Mutual Causality by Macy
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
Are there any good ways to internalize mind-body nondualism without having to get enlightened? Asking for a friend
Replying to @RonnyBloom
@RonnyBloom try covering one of the circles in this one twitter.com/RogueDunderhea…
Retweeted @NathanpmYoung
I like @CompliceGoals When I set to-do lists they get clogged up with stuff I thought was important 3 months ago. Com…
Found myself thinking about 2 meanings of "pure": One is like "has one molecule": pure sugar. Usually refined from nature. Another is "has one ingredient": pure honey 🍯. "Natural", no additives, but complex constituents.
tfw you search "speed test" and 2mins later the search results still haven't arrived
@mattgoldenberg I think that is the more general meaning, it's just interesting because the connotations are very different because pure molecule is usually quite processed whereas pure ingredient is somewhat unprocessed.
@AskYatharth Mm I like this but it also seems potentially a bit counteractive in the coherence therapy sense.