@bradbelafonte @BellaRudd1 Ocean reporting for duty! 🌊🏄♀️
January 2021
Retweeted @nickcammarata
School is bad at every level The math is grinding arithmetic. Writing is filling templates, not having good ideas. No o…
@QiaochuYuan Author Robin Sloan did an experiment looking at what it might be like to have some sort of friction to prevent exponential spread. freedom of speech ≠ freedom of reach See: platforms.fyi
Retweeted @antirobust
idea: gutters that filter your dirty, guano-filled roof water & inject flavoring to produce refreshing, convenient, snackab…
I want to see more of this and things like this.
@uncatherio @JeffLadish similar energy to @utotranslucence saying she's got my back
Retweeted @patio11
1) This hospital should receive zero doses in the future, until competent healthcare providers have had need satisfied for a c…
@Human__Age idk what meditation is or why it works when it works aside from there being something about sorting out your own self-system, free from the idea that what's going on is about input
@natural_hazard your tweet is prompting me to notice that I had a sort of impression that the "razor" imagery was supposed to imply that it would cut to the answer without much effort
Retweeted @GeniesLoki
Therapists really need more philosophy, but also philosophers really need more therapy.
@ungeometer pragmatically I think a bunch of this is repressed fear, which while not felt consciously reduces circulation to extremities
Replying to @ThanksThoth
@ThanksThoth hi 💖
Retweeted @meekaale
while preparing for the @CompliceGoals goal-crafting initiative I am really coming to understand more what a GOAL is and how…
@nealjclark1 it's a style of dancing that is like hiphop but less about hip
Beautiful thread about the meaning of goals seeing them as horizons and discovering one's own goals by looking to the horizon rather than trying to assert/decide what they are
Retweeted @RobertHaisfield
59. "Intuitive design" is less about designing something that is intuitive and more about designing something that bui…
📝Just for fun: Describe your 2020 in a six word story
@jonnym1ller I made one for 2020:
@jonnym1ller The book Spectrum of Ecstasy pointed me at a vital connection between wealth & generosity: one who feels poor can never find anything to give no matter how much they have one who feels wealthy can always find something to give no matter how little they have
Almost out of tickets for our make-sense-of-your-life workshop next weekend, but still a few spots left! Includes: 📺📄 high-quality content (videos & exercises) 🍅👥 structured co-working on goal-setting & planning 💬💡 live coaching—bypass blindspots complice.co/event/plan2021…
It's self-structured & Pay What You Want, which means that as long as you show up, it's hard for the event to not be worth it! I've personally been burned many times by paying $$$ for a course then finding out it's not a good fit, or not managing to actually complete the course
The event is 5h, which can seem like a lot when you're imagining it, but the structure (breaks, coaching+) makes the whole thing fly by smoothly. If you try to plan on your own, it's so easy to get stuck or distracted, but with the live coworking & coaches, you'll get further 📈
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery relevant & excellent thread by @nosilverv
@RichDecibels penny candy Canada doesn't even have pennies anymore
@rroudt Alexander Technique one of the original backers on @m_ashcroft's course gotta coordinate with someone to go through it though
some of you are desperate to experience desperation and it shows
@sweatystartup I spent a few years building complice.co, which only makes more like $50k but it's at that few hour/week mark and honestly passive income continues to be one of the highest rated things that's still underrated.
@erikbryn @Austen @erikbryn you might like this thread I wrote, which resonates with your point here.
@erikbryn @Austen I had a similar thought to you when I first read @Austen's thread, btw, though I think this articulation is pretty clear that he's pointing at how people are doing things without the need to directly coordinate or employ people. Which is impressive and wasn't possible 30+ y ago.
@antonjw yesss want to have a call sometime? (who might we like as a third... 🤩)
Retweeted @commandodev
Wow 🤓🤯
@anthilemoon @Aella_Girl & @rothosphere made Askhole askhole.io
@AndyAyrey @TurtlingB @TrailblazerApp Mmmmm. So far I'm very opposed to turning web apps into desktop apps. It makes it hard to have multiple tabs open, bookmark links, or use other browser extensions etc. But with what you describe there might be something there! Stoked to meet you 🔥 How about a call sometime?
Thread · Running list of people doing deep design work · 1 of 14 tweets
Just put @AndyAyrey on my Deep Design list based on this exploratory work in post-tab browsing.
Replying to @ThanksThoth
Thread · Claiming to be the godfather of #roamcult
Not many people know it, but... I think I'm the godfather of the #roamcult. Here's my case: @Conaw wouldn't have been active on twitter if I hadn't pitched him on how @visakanv was already using twitter kind of like roam with interlinked threads:
This was 2018-2019, before Roam had shipped publicly—Conor would just show me a demo every few months and I would stare at it and tell him that he was doing amazing work but that something was still missing.
I was thinking a lot about twitter threading at the time, inspired by @visakanv and @GRITCULT among others, and I told him there was something he needed to grok there. I could see the power in what he was trying to build and wanted that to happen.
Anyway, so Conor got active on twitter and started stuff like this around that time - this thread includes multiple pointers to @visakanv.
But that's only half of my claim to being #roamcult's godfather. The other half involves @QiaochuYuan, who prompted the creation of both the @RoamResearch account and the #roamcult hashtag.
...and I not only introduced QC to Roam (afaik)...
...but also to twitter! (he'd had an account before but hadn't been using it, and I explicitly encouraged him to get on there and get involved in threading as well as what would later become known as strangely earnest twitter)
(I think @visakanv has got to be the god-grandfather of the #roamcult or something, since he's intertwingled in the above story at almost every single stage!)
If you're wondering who I am—this mysterious figure who apparently nudges communities into existence... 🤨 ...here's one way I've tried to describe it:
For more on how I think about emergent self-energizing collaboration, check out this thread 👇💖🚀
@Conaw @DaltonDEmery @visakanv @GRITCULT BR? Anyway, this exchange prompted me to tweet this thread:
@natural_hazard @visakanv I think sometimes there are limits to how many results will show, but if you have keywords in addition to search, that narrow it down enough, nothing should be missing in my experience.
@xjourner @xuenay Haha I also have problems sitting without a backrest 😂 I don't have any particular knack for that, just for getting people in touch with their feels. I might recommend @m_ashcroft's Alexander Technique stuff instead.
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery @jambarree I'd be down to be a third! (would have to be sometime next week)
Retweeted @DavidCrandall_W
More ideas on AR + Knowledge Management spawned from Twitter interaction with @Malcolm_Ocean
@DavidCrandall_W This is cool! Glad to have sparked it. Found myself wondering who'd be into it and somehow @Mappletons came to mind, though I'm not sure why!
@DavidCrandall_W @Mappletons Maybe we can get @zachphillips to build a prototype 🤔
@MartinRerak hmmm.... curation isn't exactly the issue. I can curate great myself, I just need a better UI to do so eg right now I want to go to bed, but I accidentally opened up a bunch of twitter tabs, and I kind of want to digest them so they're not in my face when I wake up, but...
@diviacaroline @trvrb @JeffLadish @slatestarcodex @diviaprocessing Awesome! So glad to see the outcome of this exchange! These two tweets in particular seem to really make the flip. Instead of "no evidence of X", the effect is "we lack confidence that variants are absent".
@DaltonDEmery @jambarree Bahaha already missed it - I'm super behind on notifications 😂 twitter.com/DaltonDEmery/s…
@BlackForestBoi @flancian @zachphillips @RoamResearch @hypothes_is @worldbrain @readwiseio @mymind @NotionHQ @obsdmd mmm great call because yeah, there's a context/namespacing thing wikipedia has disambiguation pages I've also got a whole bunch of different roam dbs, with different pages that have the same name (usually basically the same entity, but which one I'd want to see may vary)
@AskYatharth @gptbr00ke yeah, not sure. still haven't listened to your recordings, though I want to! @mattgoldenberg has some takes on addiction functioning differently than other coherence things, he might comment
Retweeted @captain_mrs
I didn't think I was a new years resolutions person but just opened out Complice for the first time this year, cleared out…
@captain_mrs yeah I resonate with this and I have some hazy thoughts like "it would be good if the Complice UI allowed you to backdate the creation of goals, and to fill in stuff you've already started noticing yourself doing towards that newly emerging goal before it crystallized"
happened to have vv up when I read this gem from @peternlimberg: > No one man can “know” how it is connected though. If you enter into the primordial realm, with a map of reality that you think is complete, you will misconnect concepts in a way that disconnects you from reality.
Retweeted @Conaw
Malcolm Kenobi
@rothosphere just put this on again and I am continuing to dig it
Retweeted @rothosphere
listen to my new single got the sampled audio from my bank's hold line soundcloud.com/mrgar/market-u…
@DRMacIver @AskYatharth so you've got a meta-idiolect then I see
inside of you are 5 space explorers trying to voltron
@nosilverv I think this is caused by a pragmatic paradox perceiving ones existing actions as immoral tends to undermine one's self-trust of capacity for morality or moral discernment so aside from specific changes thrust upon people by insights perspective changes, little conscious change
@acidshill it is imo possible to be postrat or metarat with only a tiny bit of skill at rat, but ur gonna make mistakes solid rats wouldn't make
Replying to @_metallurgist
@_metallurgist let's do it
@AgnesCallard I switched to using 24h time but also to correct for the colloquial usage of "tuesday" where it's still tuesday 10 minutes after midnight (until you sleep or sun comes up, basically) I refer to 10 mins after midnight as 24:10. 1am is 25:00. I was up til like 27:45 last night.
Retweeted @AbhayPrasanna
@Malcolm_Ocean inside you there are 5 space wolves they don't fight for anything other than to be seen by you it doesn't…
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna YESSSS ahh man, lovely I feel like I just played a groovy lil lick🎸 and you turned it into a whole song 🎶
whoa... are "curious" & "curate" etymologically related...? (inspired by thinking about @visakanv's threads that are him livetweeting wikipedia wanderings) turns out... yes! also to "care"
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Big emotions can feel overwhelming - like being stuck in a closet with an angry elephant! Expanded awareness doesn't me…
Thread · Tweets referenced during a live call with Visakan and Michael Ashcroft
Thread of tweets mentioned (or otherwise relevant) to a call I'm in with @m_ashcroft & @visakanv. V: Malcolm I think you can do something stickier than this 👇
V mentioned "my domino meme" Enjoying the kind of reusable blockness of it even in the out-loud convo.
talking about how a small group doing something groovy can draw others in
Michael: Malcolm, I found this thread really useful
talking about what inspires us to write
(which is also reminding me of Visa and others asking me to turn this into a blog post... I'll schedule a showtime for that!)
talking about the word "ambition" in Visa's "friendly ambitious nerds" thing = make a thing happen that hasn't happened malcolmocean.com/2015/11/just-d…
@captain_mrs sounds kiki
@SpencrGreenberg What's been the biggest dead-end of the many projects you've worked on in the last 5 years? (something maybe even nobody has heard of because it never launched, or got no attention when it did)
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery @GarrettPetersen Yup. Have tried to nudge the discourse when I see a place it might wiggle though. Important to hold the line a little.
Retweeted @hyperdiscogirl
it's not real to me that when I'm chatting with people online, what it actually looks like is for them to be also sitti…
if you were stimulated to orgasm by all of the different input to your consciousness simultaneously then you would really come to your senses
@jay_shapiro @dsteninger @hyperdiscogirl seeing your tweet prompted me to tweet this
Retweeted @finereli
I'm trying to collect some common thoughts people have when they don't have motivation to do something they should or want to…
@finereli my main one is just "bluhhhhh" I also get "I wish I didn't have to do this" or "I wish someone else would do it for me"
@finereli would love to hear more about how you might use these, unless it's vital to collect them without that spoiled! there's some chance it might help people usefully add to the list
Replying to @m_altcroft
@m_altcroft curious why this wasn't on main
@AE_Robbert I have a spreadsheet for visualizing funds, which has been vital for me feeling like I know wtf is going on. I made a template for it, tho it's probably still hard to set up. Has a section for in/out flows too. Tips: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo… docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Retweeted @vivavolt
@m_ashcroft @Malcolm_Ocean @visakanv I have trained myself to write everything down and make sure to follow up but... it’s so…
OpenAI has a thing that's like GPT-3 but for generating images from text prompts check it out: openai.com/blog/dall-e/ ....thanks I hate it:
Retweeted @VesselOfSpirit
the reason why inside you there are two wolves is because the smaller wolves have to merge into coalitions to have a ch…
@uncatherio @wholezero @VesselOfSpirit @diviacaroline thirded @m_ashcroft @visakanv somehow this tweet feels related to our convo earlier today
top tweet of 2021 so far
Thread · Trying to find an option trade that pays off if the UK covid strain hits
In this thread, Malcolm tries to figure out whether there's an stock option he can trade to make money iff the UK strain fucks shit up hard. Was messaging a friend who knows a few things about finance, & I figured what the hell, might as well just tweet about it. #GarageDoorUp
I would like to find a way to make $2-5k turn into: <$100 if the UK covid strain turns out to be a nothingburger >$20k if the UK covid strain causes a huge 4th wave in the USA and elsewhere 11:06 my understanding is that is broadly possible using put options, but I don't know how
(my situation: - Canada - some money in WealthSimple but not on their trading platform, and don't otherwise have any investments (although for awhile I was set up on... Scotia iTRADE) - have some crypto, if that somehow helps )
One issue is that I'm not exactly sure what would move in the markets if the UK strain fucks shit up (4th wave, everyone sick). I'm interested in that question (reply to this tweet with ideas) but I don't want to get lost trying to figure that out at this phase.
Here's VIX, the volatility index, over the last 5 years. All-time high is initial covid shock, latest spike was just before election. Suppose I think that if UK strain fucks shit up, VIX will go above 40 sometime in the next 5 months. What do I do with that?
One thing ofc I could do is just straight up buy VIX, I think. But that wouldn't 5× my money even if the spike is way larger. Somewhat higher-leveraged option would be to buy a call on VIX I guess? not sure exactly how that works, would love a lil example
even higher-leveragedly, in principle I could find another trader who thinks that VIX is not going cross 40 and is happy to sell me 50 [somethings] each worth $100 if VIX crosses 40 [by some date] and worth $0 otherwise, for like $10 apiece (though how do I find out how much?)
okay now I'm on yahoo finance for VIX options and I'm seeing this: strike price is... relevant! I think I vaguely know what's going on here? But this graph is only for like, tomorrow, and I want something that spans like 4-6 months.
Now got this chart which has a date of May. Before buying I'd obviously double-check that means what I am guessing it means (that I could exercise the option anytime until May). (idk where I picked up the jargon "exercise the option"—I've barely traded except a lil crypto)
Ok let's take the lowest blueish line on the left. Afaict, this is telling me that for about $5, I could be the proud new owner of the option to sell a VIX for $25. So my master plan is: 1. buy one for $5 2. then VIX hits $25 3. I buy VIX for $25, sell for $40, net $10 = 2×!
Okay that's pretty cool. Can we do better? I'm fine with higher risk. $4 for $30 call... that's... $6 profit on $4 I think, which is worse. $8 for $20 call... $12 profit on $8... same as previous $12 for $15 call... that's $13 profit on $12... slightly above 2×
Okay, so I could basically double my money here, assuming (A) UK covid strain or something else actually causes VIX to hit 40 (B) I've got the balls to actually exercise the options at the right time.
Ofc, if VIX hit 50, some of the above trades become much better (not sure which is new best—can whip up a quick spreadsheet; surely there are apps for this)
Okay, this spreadsheet helps with situational awareness... one thing it highlights is that if I were thinking it would cross 55, then I'd make more money buying a higher strike option, presumably because the options themselves are just way cheaper at those prices?
In other words, those options are way cheaper because fewer people think it's going to hit that price. That makes sense. Riiiiiiight, and what this really affects is the *ratio*. I can get twice as many $35 calls as $24 calls for the same amount of money.
I'm not certain, but the overall shape of these options suggest to me there isn't a 10× or nothing trade to be made on VIX hitting 40. The $30 call though would be 1.5× at 40, 2.75× at 45, 4× at 50... and 9× at 70 (which was the previous all-time high)
The reason why I care about 10×ing rather than just 2×ing is that even doing this sort of investment is itself a large investment of time, I don't have that much money that I'm game to completely lose, but losing/gaining a few thousand dollars doesn't make a big difference to me.
I am perhaps unusual in this regard but also I want to be clear that "losing/gaining a few thousand dollars doesn't make a big difference to me" is relative: it's on the scale of the difference it would make to me (and the world) for the UK covid strain to fuck shit up hard.
so it's like, both of these situations feel like ones I can be glad in: - "oh god shit has hit the fan really bad but also now I have an extra $20-50k" - "I lost $2-5k but the shit and fan are at ease and not entangled"
You can see this as kind of a grand hedge, or something. I didn't do this last March despite confidence, because I still mostly felt like I could do something about the situation and didn't want to feel like I was rooting for disaster. bet I considered:
Still lots of unknowns here, but I enjoyed this experience of thinking out loud. Oddly enough, this is an interesting experience of twitter actually *improving* my focus on something!
Anyway, for now I'm just going to let all of this investigation I just did simmer, both in my personal cerebellum and in the lovely distributed consciousness that is twitter. Share thoughts!
(Further reading re "how fucked are we?" with a rather strongly worded title.) lesswrong.com/posts/CHtwDXy6…
@nclaurence Curious @nclaurence what you ended up with here!
Thread · Live impressions of trying Focusmate for accompanied work · 12 of 13 tweets
Have been aware of @Focusmate for awhile as one of the main alternatives/competitors to complice.co/rooms coworking, but it didn't occur to me somehow until today that maybe I actually just want to *use* Focusmate for stuff I've been wanting accompaniment while working on.
Checking it out now. Loving the onboarding—was sort of hoping I could just book a call without choosing what I was gonna work on, but nope. And that's probably good. Have tried such calls and I usually end up with something random. (& they have a quiet "skip for now" button)
I think I'm just gonna go with Yearly Review, in which I'm bucketing both my blog post (half-written and showtime scheduled for tomorrow) as well as private reviews. First task: finish an adequate full draft of blog post (it currently has a bunch of placeholders & blanks)
Watching the intro... I like how they have the timer at the top... was expecting them to actually have a separate 1-2min timer for the "tell your partner what you're working on". For me there's something that feels good about committing *then* hearing the bell.
They also don't have a clear separate timer for the debrief, which I was expecting even despite the lack of that at the intro. (Could be fun to have a lil chatbot in the Complice rooms that asks "how'd last pomo go?" when break starts & "what's next?" 1min before pomo starts🤔)
Now I'm into "ready to book a session" and it's asking me for a session title and I'm like... do I put my goal there? Hmm... it's not showing me that goal anywhere. Ah yeah, title only visible to me. So I could use it for that, or not, or whatever.
Oh nice, automatic buttons to make it repeat daily or weekly. Easy to get it to stick. This is a well-made product. I can tell lots of work went into making it as simple & functional as it is.
Very curious how they do the match-up. I seemed to somehow immediately have a partner the moment I picked a time. I would have guessed some people have a kind of auto-availability, but I don't see that option anywhere! They said something about gcal integration though maybe?
I guess maybe I got lucky that there was someone already waiting for that slot? Seems there are lots of people who have booked slots...
(Oh. Thought I'd tweeted the above stuff last night.) Anyway, I just tried my first few sessions and can confirm that if you sign up for a slot that nobody else (in this case 9 minutes away) has then it puts you in a "Matching..." state.
But literally 2 minutes later someone grabbed that slot. Impressive! Curious how they bootstrapped the initial volume of users to make that possible, although ofc pairwise matching means there's only ever at most one odd person out for a given slot.
I know from my experience with the Less Wrong Study Hall (a coworking room originally on tinychat, now at complice.co/room/lesswrong) that people thought it would take dozens of ppl signing on a few hours a week, but critical mass actually looked more like a few ppl 40+ h/week.
@mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert DALL-E (GPT-3 for images) can probably whip this up for us
Thread · Live impressions of trying Focusmate for accompanied work · 1 of 13 tweets
This is great. I just did 3 sessions in a row working on my yearly review blogpost showtime and then I got a simple "pay $5 a month to access unlimited sessions" and I'm like "yeah I want this". I can sometimes focus fine on my own but I love the affordance of "let's cowork rn!"
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa not sure if QTing cringe 🤔 I guess a bit better on alt but also like, I was exposed to this via this QT and probably wouldn't have been otherwise, and I don't know the original format
Impressed I managed to write a long 2020 yearly review blog post without saying much at all about covid. Check it out to learn more about the deep research into trust I've been doing and my personal learning journey over the past year 🕺💞🛣️ malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
@ESYudkowsky the cake that GlaDOS promised
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna I don't understand (particularly the first line) am I missing a reference? or can you give an example?
@emmalsalinas which weird thingy do ppl have to go in to get that one?
@harveykrishna_ this reminded me of a time I wisely left a dance (sort of a drug-free rave) promptly after someone I'd been really enjoying dancing with left, rather than stick around with ever-dwindling numbers peak-end rule? anyway, I had a lovely hour-long walk home in the snow
Retweeted @harveykrishna_
Yea getting embodied can be painful when there’s repressed emotions and trauma lurking under the surface, but can we a…
@maybegray I'm gyrating like @collinofzion (but uhh, gentler than he usually does it)
@harveykrishna_ yesssss
unlearning trauma responses is allowed to be • delicious • ecstatic • juicy • fun () twitter.com/harveykrishna_…
@protoneutype someone recently bought lesswoo.com and is intending to put stuff like this here btw
@GretchenAMcC ummm
Replying to @utotranslucence
@utotranslucence curious what @eriktorenberg's & @julianweisser's takes are on this, wrt @beondeck
@hyperdiscogirl I've had phases where I get 300+ calories a day from chocolate for months. #LivingMyBestLife
@protoneutype it was buried somewhere deep in the comments of this post about the extent to which a particular monastery is a dysfunctional cult, when people got talking about which woo things are legit facebook.com/caroline.f.hub…
@maybegray mmm, that means a lot
@maybegray the phrase I QT'd above was something that came to mind when I was feeling into "how do I want people to feel when they use Complice? what do I want the underlying message to be?" and it's a pretty good articulation of one main feeling I want to radiate personally too
@maybegray Complice can be understood as me trying to figure out how to scale the deep care & nurturing impulse I feel towards pretty much everyone in relation to them self-actualizing and doing meaningful stuff doing okay so far but we've got a lot of people still left to inspire
@nibrasibn How'd this go, Nibras?
why is it that putting your tongue in someone else's mouth is so good???
What's something you've considering getting tattooed but haven't? (could be "not yet" or "decided against") For me: — "spiro sic aspirabam" (~Latin for "as I breathe, so I aspire"… tried it w sharpie in 2016) — a seadragon (a symbol for me of passionate combined grief & anger)
@CarnunMP @jongold didn't even need to open the link to know what this would be so good
@entercultural @edelwax doesn't that sound like evidence against it being related?
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert In this case, you might be misled into thinking that seeing DALL-E brought me back to Matt's tweet. That would be impressive and wild, and is not what happened. I had completely forgotten about Matt's tweet shortly after he sent it, although I think I did briefly consider ideas
@AbhayPrasanna @mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert What happened here was that a friend said in a DM "I didn’t intend to stay with this company for this long" and I sent him the Time Being tweet, and then when I saw the Time Being tweet again I saw Matt's reply and that reminded me of the DALL-E avocado chair & its weird clocks.
@AbhayPrasanna @mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert There's still a question of how I found the Time Being tweet again, but it's pretty straightforward quicksearch: twm time being (which ofc will now find this tweet and the previous one too 🤦♀️)
@AbhayPrasanna @mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert there's a layer deeper of question, which is "how did I remember the existence of the original tweet in order to search for it?" but I don't have an answer to that question! sometimes I have a hazy memory but inadequate keywords or breadcrumb trails to find the tweet
@AbhayPrasanna @mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert QT'd below is an extreme example of breadcrumbs, that I found by searching from:malcolm_ocean appreciate found tweet
Thread · Twemex sidebar and the mechanics of composing threads
Nice. Found this top tweet of @geoffreylitt's using his browser extension Twemex, which adds a powerful sidebar to twitter. (@AbhayPrasanna says it pairs nicely with @thlpr but I haven't tried that yet.)
If you want beta access, DM @geoffreylitt!
Oh cool and then immediately after tweeting the above QT, I saw the QT displayed automatically in the Twemex sidebar. Fyeah.
Having an advanced search bar on the right side of my tweet composer is gonna both speed up my threading as well as Needs a hotkey to activate though, otherwise ctrl+t might actually end up faster.
Huh, come to think of it, I guess mouse nav is actually a pretty core part of writing a thread: - click (+) to create a new tweet in the thread - click to focus the different textboxes of each tweet Hmm.... would be super cool if @Twitter added something like ctrl+↑/↓ to jump.
Already sick of my own highlights though. Where's the On This Day feature instead? I might also prefer On This Day instead of highlights, for my mutuals. Like it's cool to see their highlights once, but otherwise better have something different each time.
Thread · Running list of people doing deep design work · 1 of 14 tweets
Whaaaaat I am very excited about @geoffreylitt's @TwemexApp. I've also seen a few other tweets by him that tells me his thinking goes deep, so onto the Deep Design list he goes!
@geoffreylitt All 4 of those sound awesome! In addition to the all-time highlights. I'm impressed by how fast & consistently you surface it. I would like to separate home timeline from On The Day, I think.
@geoffreylitt Also I'm just like... super stoked about the work you're doing. Would love to have a convo sometime about the possibilities for browser extensions! Lots to jam about there. My latest 👇 (If you like the idea, we could record it 🔴 & post it somewhere 🚀)
Retweeted @Beatgrrrl
Hundred dollar bills, y'all If you were from where I'm from Then you would know That I gotta get mine in a big black truck You can get yours in a '64
(have had this song stuck in my head all day because it's in this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ mix by @thefunkhunters, and randomly it reminded me of @Conaw's new truck but that truck is white not black so,,,) soundcloud.com/thefunkhunters…
Replying to @ledfordvct
@sabertruthV @itsdestinygrace @Conaw I'm in, obvi
@sabertruthV @Itsdestinygrace @Conaw ....I said that before I listened to the actual track haha. Perhaps more strategy needed.
@Conaw @sabertruthV @robresnick 🎧 FUCK. You would 🔥 This is fucking gold.
@Conaw @sabertruthV @robresnick Also wanting to let you know that my first response to reading "Never been a set that spoke more to my soul than Ol Molly Mix" was to download it so that if it ever goes down I'll be able to send it to you ♥️
@RobertHaisfield @Conaw @thlpr @nosilverv @geoffreylitt simple example is like, multiple selection sometimes relies on things being perfectly lined up, to be sane at all
Me trying to articulate Unsong to @LordChisholm (who has also read it) "it's like... any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology, but we accidentally devolved it and now it's not anymore"
What's the answer to this question? Wrong answers only.
Seriously thinking I might sign up for @fortelabs' Yearly Review event this weekend and ghost on GCI (not actually. seriously thinking I might sign up and squeeze in what hours I can, around GCI)
Replying to @JamesWords
@nullary ahhh I bet I know how that glyph is pronounced
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@donaldknewell @ATabarrok @Noahpinion @zeynep To paraphrase Alex: if your parents are 70 years old and you have two do…
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one of the most damaging misconceptions is that legislation is a useful way to control culture
@TylerAlterman it me
@ssica3003 @JasnaSeishin @TylerAlterman @nosilverv I'm fairly extrꜵverted but I also love airports (and being on the planes themselves). I think it's the sense of like... nobody is expecting me to be anywhere or do anything for some number of hours. Free time in a way that even my usual lifestyle doesn't usually feel.
> What changed… was not Trump’s behavior on the platforms, but rather the facts on the ground: With Capitol ransacked & blood spilled, the hypothesis that Trump’s language could incite violence had been replaced by the straightforward fact that it had. wired.com/story/tweets-g…
@daemonhugger am not because I could not
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I'm not sure what more the govt wants us to do. Most of us are home. All social gathering places are closed. Most of us…
Thread · Decentralizing vaccine rollout by giving orgs autonomy over criteria
musing about simpler distributed-intelligence covid vaccination strategies... ...take say 100 orgs that can administer • give each 1000 doses • top priority: use all of them • give each org a general focus area • let them figure out relevant criteria themselves
the general focus area at the moment would be things like: • long-term care homes • healthcare workers • frontline workers • people with comorbidities • elderly folk (the usual stuff people have been talking about)
because each org has the autonomy to decide its own criteria, fewer people will fall through the cracks, because they won't all be the same and the small orgs can move quickly to fill in gaps. and no vaccines wasted because the orgs are supposed to use all of them
the current USA* laws around prioritization are slowing things way down because orgs are trying to prioritize *not vaccinating people they aren't supposed to* instead of *vaccinating whoever seems best* (*Canada seems maybe half as bad)
these laws are based on a profound distrust and the impression that if not regulated people will do bad things. sure, some vaccines will go in the arms of friends and family, but that'll happen anyway and punishing people for getting caught does not help
I don't feel like this thread is super coherent, but the thing I'm trying to point at here is flipping the question from "how can we ensure doses are given out in the right order?" to "how can we empower the people with vaccine doses to give them out strategically?"
anyway, all of this thinking was inspired by reading this excellent report on how badly vaccinations are going in the USA, with incentives backwards and many ending up spoiling lesswrong.com/posts/i6doyTk6…
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We found a smooth tree today too, @Aryeh___ ! twitter.com/Aryeh___/statu…
What traits or behaviors do you have more of than most people, but less of than your ingroup / the people you usually hang out with? At various points for me this has been stuff like: • grokking mathematics • liking researching things • meditating
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 3 of 15 tweets
Who gets to decide? Who gets to decide who gets to decide?
In what language do we negotiate? In what language do we negotiate what language to conduct our negotiation in?
Shall we take this action? Shall we vote on whether to take this action? Shall we vote on whether to vote on whether to take this action? Shall we vote on whether this vote needs 50% or 60% to pass? Shall we vote on what to do if we can't decide whether or not to vote?
am writing a thread I thought was at least a good conversation-starter but now it feels incoherent and mediocre and off-topic from where it started hmmm... I think I'm just going to post the half of it I wrote second
Thread · Thinking out loud about censorship, deplatforming, and freedom of reach
Hmmm... seeing this has me thinking about the nature of censorship and whether there's a way to do it better. In this thread I'm going to think out loud to grok the meaning of censorship both conceptually and pragmatically. (Context: POTUS banned from twitter today)
Conceptually: I forget where I got the phrase but someone pointed out to me there's a difference between "freedom of speech" (a vital right) & "freedom of reach". You have the right to speak your mind in the forums you are in, but you don't have the right to a megaphone.
"censorship" refers to many very different things. A few: 1. dictatorships in which you vanish/die if you're caught dissing leadership 2. self-censorship caused by fear of mobbing/cancelling 3. deplatforming, which in practice sometimes amplifies messages or polarization—oops.
Proponents of freedom of speech are broadly opposed to all of these, but it seems to me 1 & 2 are profoundly different than 3 as they employ *harsh punishment*, whereas deplatforming is more like "you don't have to go home but you can't stay here".
What we're talking about with tech censorship is much more like #3. The risk of losing your platform may be a deterrent—a kind of punishment—but on a different scale than 1 or 2. Losing your platform may set back your cause but it doesn't end or ruin your life.
The issue that we're facing here is one of symmetric vs asymmetric weapons. Banning someone from a platform can be done to anyone regardless of whether they're trying to use the platform to foment hate & violence or whether they're trying to use it to understand all views.
Remember: we're not going to get anywhere good trying to eliminate evil.
It is somewhat a historical contingency that people who make tech platforms have the technical power to decide who gets to do what on those platforms. But even within those orgs, who gets to decide, and why?
So the design question, of course, is "could a platform like twitter be modified to deeply *actually* incentivize both free speech *and* empathic listening, in ALL directions, without it losing its magic and having everyone (or half of everyone) just leave?"
Although there are two different things that "half of everyone" leaving could mean. If it's one side of a political polarity (along any axis) that would probably reinforce polarization, escalating tension medium-term though short-term the remaining side might feel relief & ease.
If instead the "half of everyone" who left was the most extreme people at multiple poles... well, this might create space for those who want to talk to others who see things differently and understand each other. Will extreme folks find other platforms? Ofc. They have already.
The generator of many of the above tweets feels related to the one that generated this voting system idea:
The obvious critique is "what if nobody gets 67%" and my main answer to that on a presidential scale is "well, there are succession laws. who is Speaker of the House?" Approximately this falls back to the prime-minister model used in UK & Canada already.
Too easy to game things like this 67% thing on smaller scales than elections though, if we were try to hold referendums on things like whether a given tweet is trying to communicate in good faith or not.
But there is the advantage that unlike changing an electoral system, with a privately-owned platform, to some extent the people who own it can decide how to run it, without having to pass votes in order to decide that.
I'm just thinking out loud here. Incentives are tough to manage. I don't know what I would do if I were @jack, and I don't envy him the position although I would love to help him make sense of what it might make sense to do with it. uhhh send tweet
@Wargarblet @xtrixcyclex @jimsciutto @Twitter Excusing and organizing seem pretty different to me. (I'm not actually expressing a specific opinion about what should be done here; the incentives and precedents are complex in many directions and I don't pretend to know.)
Thread · Gumroad's operating philosophy as inspiration for meta-teams
Whoaaaa this article about how Gumroad works is very cool. I resonate so hard with "freedom at all costs." Very much how I created @CompliceGoals and how I've continued to run it. Lots of inspiration here for my meta-team concept too. 🧵 sahillavingia.com/work
Finding this article a really powerful inspiration for something I've been thinking about about collaborative self-energizing meta-teams. Rest of thread written as if reader has read this thread, though you don't have to go read it if you don't want.
This really resonates with that philosphy: > People can work on what’s fun or rely on their intuition, because as long as we remain profitable and keep shipping, we tend to get to the important stuff eventually. Our public roadmap helps Gumroad's creators hold us accountable.
There are other things that resonate less. Gumroad seems very focused on shipping: > There are no retreats planned, and no social channels in Slack. There are limited opportunities for growth. Whereas my meta-team concept is very much oriented to deep-connection & also scaling.
> In 2020, Sid left Gumroad to start his own creator economy company, Circle, together with former Gumroad coworker Rudy Santino Okay this does resonate. Piece of team incubating ideas, breaking off to do something new. I'm imagining often more fluid transitions though maybe.
> Working on Gumroad isn't a majority of anyone's identity. I'm imagining this kinda in the meta-team, re any particular team, because people would be doing multiple things. But at least some people might have some identity in relation to being in this meta-team.
They do unpaid few-hour challenge then paid few-week trial as part of interview process. Similar to a 12w experiment @joyurge and I did with Complice last summer, to explore possibilities of working together. Though again, more & connection focused than "just get shit done"
> Within the company, we keep a document that lists how much everyone is paid, along with their average working hours. This allows the team to have as much information as I do when making compensation decisions. @joyurge & I also experimented w open books, tho more meta.
> We also have an “anti-overtime” rate: past twenty hours a week, people can continue to work at an hourly rate of 50 percent. This allows us to have a high hourly rate for the highest leverage work and also allows people to work more per week if they wish. @utotranslucence!! 👆
> Creators make money so they can make stuff, instead of the other way around. Why not adopt this framing at Gumroad, too? This is what working in the creator economy should feel like.
> Gumroad’s homepage is clear about its benefits to creators who use it: “Escape your 9-to-5 job. Take off your suit and tie. End your commute. Get paid for your craft.” > As cliché as it may be, we are trying to be a company of creators, for creators.
@dvassallo "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." — Gall's Law
@ThrivingHenry @fortelabs Hmm, that might work better haha! I do need to do some yearly review of my own (privately, in addition to the blog post I wrote 👇) but trying to squeeze it into this weekend around hosting two 5h workshops myself may not be the way to do it. malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
@ThrivingHenry @fortelabs Noticing myself writing "may/might" tho—sounds like I don't quite feel bought in on my thought here. Hmm... I think if it were just me doing my thing then I'd be full-in, but I've got other people I'm connecting with this weekend and don't want to be absent from them or torn.
tea is an underrated psychotechnology I don't mean caffeine I mean, I think I get like +2 to my listening skills in a conversation when I have a cup of tea to sip
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Disney World can build a nuclear power plant under Florida law
"come for the goal-setting content, stay for the vibe" me talking about GCI
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friend recently convinced me: the most important question for the next decade is "what does forgiveness look like in a secul…
protip: don't ever go to your inbox looking for a specific email set up a quicksearch (right-click address bar, "manage search engines", "Add") and then you can search what you're looking for! so I would type in this case gm etaxbc code and get the nondistracting screen here ↘️
@uncatherio solving this on the user end...
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@nickcammarata I do currently boggle at believing that my current informal social ingroup has the best working model of min…
@uncatherio @coponder @nickcammarata blows my mind as well and is so exciting
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If anyone was wondering about my stance on NLP...
@mattgoldenberg picking up some whiskey vibes here
Whew! 6 sold-out sessions of Goal-Crafting Intensives complete. We're getting better & better at these each year and it continues to be such a pleasure to help people orient towards what's most meaningful & important to them.
@mattgoldenberg Yeah this sounds awesome, I'm in. Me & @SarahAMcManus & Benjamin were literally working on something like this 3y ago called QUIC: Quest for Untangling Internal Conflict, but we backburnered it when we realized we didn't understand how to do it well enough. Now we have UtEB etc!
this is amazing (I don't recommend the audio tho) twitter.com/koan4u/status/…
@uncatherio @nickcammarata @CurziRose I mentioned to you that there were a bunch of people to connect with on twitter—probably lots of the people who liked Catherio's tweet above would be a decent place to start! Also @AskYatharth, @SeanMombo, @discomfrtble, @mattgoldenberg, @DRMacIver, @AbhayPrasanna
So @otter_ai has access to my gcal and it gives me little prompts to record & transcribe meetings and at first I was like uhh no, "shower" is not a meeting but come to think of it, transcribing my ShowerThoughts is not a bad idea 🤔💭
what if there just actually aren't any normies?
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 1 of 15 tweets
How do we answer the question? How do we answer the question of how do we answer the question?
"turns out people don't like being told what to do. except when they do. but other than that, they don't"
Canada is no Israel when it comes to efficient vaccination, but I'm encouraged to see that in many provinces the number of vaccinations exceeds the number of confirmed cases! (off, still 2-5× uncounted cases)
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what's the minimum set of changes you might need to make to your lifestyle to get yourself out of a state of chronic stres…
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eating food that you don't want but feel uncomfortable throwing away = you'd rather treat your body as a rubbish disposal…
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I get the impression that masturbation is quite ubiquitous. We’ve figured out, despite the taboo, how to address our sexu…
Doing Bio-Emotive helped me a fair bit with this, both doing it solo and having very loving people (particularly @DougTataryn) facilitate for me. And, in the same way masturbation doesn't replace sex, self-love isn't a substitute for loving interactions with others.
cc @AskYatharth @nickcammarata @reasonisfun & ofc @captain_mrs
@SColbyPeters1 sort of? it has a different connotation, but my own reflecting that it meant "normal people" and that people are the sort of thing that may follow a normal distribution on one dimension but never all dimensions was part of what prompted the original tweet
Replying to @nikkilolson2
@nikkilolson2 Interestingly, while this is true, that doesn't imply that there's actually a single person who is central on all dimensions. Most people are central on most dimensions, but good luck finding a single person who falls in the middle of the curve on all.
@devan2_0 Agreed re YMMV, though I'm not referring to the chemical content of the drink at all but still important: • thermodynamic properties (ie hot temperature that encourages sipping) • gustatorial properties (tasty enough to create sensation when in your mouth)
@devan2_0 So "tea" here is shorthand for a category that includes: • herbal tea / tisane • hot apple cider • hot chocolate • hot lemon drink • dandy blend (dandelion - bitter like coffee) on reflection though, anything sugary is more distracting because I want to drink it too quickly
@devan2_0 I personally do caffeine sometimes, but I treat it like a drug, to be used intentionally, only once a week or so. So I mostly wouldn't just pour myself a cup of coffee. This is partially because I have a daily nap, and caffeine messes with that.
@AskYatharth @DougTataryn Ooooooh this (both tweet I'm replying to and the one it QTs) are 🔥🔥🔥🤩)
@ebenwert recently came across this thread citing some studies showing the effects of deplatforming on adding friction to movement growth, though it still doesn't address the questions of "who deserves it" etc
@ebenwert Thanks for letting me know about the impact of my writing this thread. I had sort of been feeling like maybe it was a waste of time! 🙏
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men only want one thing and it's- twitter.com/Peter_Fries/st…
@AaronEstel I mostly think deserve is a broken concept, although it's important to integratedly learn how it's broken, which means not negating any parts of yourself that are still thinking using it, but rather coming to understand what it's doing and how that can work better.
my old take: I deserve love. Everyone deserves love. my new take: I will get the amount of love that I will not settle for less than, and I will not settle for less than a lot of love. I want that for everybody and will not settle there, either.
@AaronEstel this is a flip I recently made, to integrate a part of me that was trying to say something about getting the love I deserve
@AaronEstel also helpful in the deconstruction process... double-negation: instead of "Everyone deserves love" say/think "Nobody deserves to be alone" The latter is compatible with "deserving is not a useful way to think about this at all."
@SunnyDisposish1 realized the seadragon one wouldn't be legible in its actual meaning and would just look like a blue dragon tattoo, which 🤷♀️ "spiro sic aspirabum" was neat but half of the value was actually writing it out daily for 2 weeks
Replying to @TEP_Lurking
hmmm, "tricky" vs "difficult" what is the umbrella that includes both of those? maybe "challenging" or "hard"? and would also include eg "painful" or "costly" can we make a 2×2? hm
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert ah, yes. I just scrolled back through 5 days of twitter notifications and saw this one. sometimes it gets too long but yeah. I keep the unread count hidden with this userstyle: ``` [aria-label*="Notifications"] [aria-label*=" unread item"] { display: none !important; } ```
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In the genre of "Questions to ask yourself daily", this seems like one of the best I've seen. - Would those who love you reco…
@harveykrishna_ oh totally
@julianweisser @utotranslucence @eriktorenberg @beondeck @rsg Oooh yeah, I'd be very curious to read it. Also curious to run some other ideating I've been doing by you, since it seems a bit like a cross between @beondeck & @enspiral 😮🤩 Maybe a 3-way convo between you+me+@RichDecibels?
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@jackinlondon @AskYatharth @ChanaMessinger The non-self-coercion discourse is now moving really rapidly though and not f…
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@jackinlondon @AskYatharth @ChanaMessinger As @AskYatharth said, I've been staring at this coercion thing for years (mor…
@uncatherio @spiral_virus @ben_r_hoffman This though actually.
Replying to @UNDICTION
@UNDICTION I think this is usually not about "assigned race" but about language and other things
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cool startup idea: platform where the elderly have profiles with a summary of their life story & interests. Younger people…
@DarbraDawn Yeah I wouldn't say "This needs to be normal" but it seems like a thing that as long as there's mutual understanding about it could be kinda nice.
@DarbraDawn Also there's a difference between "ghost on someone and they don't wonder if you're okay" and "ghost on someone and they don't take it personally". I sometimes don't check notifications for days and this is not personal or rude but part of my sanity. twitter.com/AbhayPrasanna/…
So uhh I don't actually know what fleets are Based on hearing them talked about over the past week, I have the impression they're like a mashup of snapchat and facebook stories... can only send from phone, maybe they have to be video? and you can see who has viewed I guess!
my mood, vaguely, when people started talking about fleets and I don't have the twitter app on my phone
stages/levels of reconciliation: 0: fuck you 1: space 2: flat apology/forgiveness 3: empathic apology/forgiveness 4: I can see how you could have done that 5: I can see how you couldn't have done anything else 6: I can see how anybody would have done that t.co/RueqHgKgkQ
@edelwax Appreciating the CC! I definitely got into appreciating the power of such questions by first appreciating the power of the one I built into Complice: what are you doing towards your goals today?
@AskYatharth @meekaale maybe lots of people teach about both but you sometimes have to read between the lines eg meaningness.com
@AskYatharth @meekaale @Meaningness might have some specific comments on the relationship of semiotics & buddhism
@utotranslucence I've been doing some work on spreading this ^ one.
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you know that thing you think you’d like to do one day in the distant future when you’re ready? do a little bit of it now
@goblinodds Human beings are animals in ways we like to pretend we aren't, yet also there is approximately no such thing as (genetically) natural human behaviour. Our behaviour is inherently memetic & culturally inherited, and so some commonalities are of culture.
@meekaale Haven't ever found my timeline bothered in such a way by you. I usually draft all at once but I enjoy seeing people post them one by one too!
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Leaning into feeling like an ecology of beings. Lots of rest here, nothing to control, just conversation among friends.
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WHY ANGER IS GOOD – a Roam doc ⎈ I compiled all the arguments that persuaded me anger is valuable (from thinking it's bad,…
@tsvibt yeah, it's inevitable in the post-regret sense anyone in *exactly* their situation would have done exactly what they did to the extent we imagine otherwise, we imagine in inadequate detail this is not to say counterfactuals aren't helpful for exploring that better is possible
@tsvibt @utotranslucence "but I'm trying!" is the reason why the apologies rank so low on my list understanding trumps remorse & reassurance, when it comes to *change* though they can still be really meaningful on a different level
Someone recently told me, "When you talk about X, you sound like you think you have all the answers." I replied, "I can sorta see what you're pointing at and why that undermines X. I don't know what in me is generating that… until I understand why, I'll probably keep doing it."
@tsvibt @utotranslucence a case study in anti-apology:
@utotranslucence Important diff between: - feeling the general truth "you couldn't have done anything else" - actually *seeing* exactly why they did it. If both of you understand why, it'll either already have changed or no change possible yet. Builds trust on level of shared expectation.
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I aspire to this level of competence and composure when dealing with obstacles in my life twitter.com/itsdaneesaur/s…
@Kirsten3531 empathy is part of 4-6, to be clear (requires more empathy, in the sense of perspective-taking) and if you can't see the structure of what happened, you are less reconciled even if things are feeling good
@MarkDForman Just came across this again and I want to reiterate for the record that I actually think that pretty much all cultures, despite diversity, share certain dysfunctions, that we don't notice because we don't have a functional culture to compare them to.
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay simple model: niche stuff actually just does better this "hot niche take" got 50 likes - way more than anything else I posted that month & 10-20 likes on the tweets in the thread (very high for my threads)
@mattgoldenberg I'm enjoying this whether it's a specific subtweet, you flirting with someone, or whether it's directed at everyone. or perhaps... yes. all of those things
@lilzwang You might like You Are The One You've Been Waiting For by Dick Schwartz (IFS founder). It applies the Internal Family Systems model to partner relationships. Doesn't exactly have exercises but has tons of great reflection prompts.
@lilzwang Another suggestion: Loch Kelly's The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life Paperback It's full of little prompts you can do that shift your state of awareness. amzn.to/3smAW8U
@lilzwang this is the only thing I've found that I could commit to fully everything else I tried didn't get buy in from all of me
@lilzwang @J_CameronLive @petajean_ Oooooooh The Undefended Self sounds like something I'm actively looking for right now. Have been grokking how defenses work in depth. Curious to hear a bit about what you got from that or Earth is Hiring.
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Nice worldview you’ve got there it’d be a shame if you harmonized it with everything else you know👹
@AaronEstel @gptbr00ke beautiful ♥️
@jameswjesso aaaahahahahaha what
Useful thread for modeling half of the impacts of the recent deplatforming of Trump etc from Twitter—the ones that would be relevant if it were somehow an accident. Despite valuing those impacts, it concerns me that the half about who gets to decide are not mentioned whatsoever.
@EntheoloJew iirc @diviacaroline & @WilliamAEden have thoughts on this (and if iirc, those thoughts are in favor of it)
more takes like this one. u got em? I want em. interpret "like this one" as you will
A lot of complice.co users call the "outcomes" phase the "daily review", which it essentially is - pretty similar to the weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews. I'm wondering if it would make sense to actually rename it...
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What if trying to mend yourself after heartbreak is like trying to stitch an opening cocoon back together, or glue up a…
@selfprime @sashachapin @incertaspecie also remember this important piece of meta-advice
@selfprime @sashachapin @incertaspecie I broadly support what @selfprime is saying here though I'll add - don't even worry about advertising until people are in love with your thing. idk what he built but if you're doing something sufficiently *actually new* then many of his points become way less relevant
I like people who are ambitious in a very personal sense while also caring tremendously about the world.
@fortelabs Galaxy Brain: Empower the startups you're investing in to figure out how to not directly compete but instead to kayfabe / dance / collaborate. There is tons of space to do original things. Competing directly is unnecessary.
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@fortelabs Galaxy Brain: Empower the startups you're investing in to figure out how to not directly compete but instead…
In this essay, I will thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Experiences are like pokemon. At first, we collect them all and put them in little boxes. Then we realise how much we want…
@RobertHaisfield @CleanShot_app Yeah I was like "wtf" when I saw loom didn't have a cropping feature. Basic necessity. Anyway, I had some utility on Linux that was decent but I forget the name.
Retweeted @fortelabs
Live like there’s no yesterday
@maybegray I tried inventing a new religion when I was like 13 or something 😉 (It wasn't actually much good but I've been tapping a fair bit of Jesusy energy the past few months!)
Retweeted @jack
I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we…
This thread is encouraging. Jack seems to be taking things seriously and genuinely trying to make decisions that favor high-quality conversations. I wonder how I can get in dialogue with the @bluesky distributed internet comms protocol task force... 🤔
@maybegray !!!! yes!
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I want to apply kintsugi to the universe.
@VanComrade @GlitchesRoux Umm @SarahAMcManus this might be our gig!
Replying to @Virtual1nstinct
@sokindling I lived in a house where we had just covered it over with the word Timeless. It was a very timewarpy Kairos house, so it kind of fit. (There was a battery-powered clock in the kitchen, that was accurate.)
Likewise to all of this. Hmm.
@jack_meditates The number of innocent people who get long sentences due to confused witnesses and other things is fairly high. Sending an innocent man to prison until he gets exonerated 10y later is one thing; killing him is another.
@michaelcurzi I have a rant about this somewhere. Anthony Wilden also has a great bit about how things are only opposites if they literally cancel each other out. Otherwise they're something else, eg "contradictions" iirc.
@yashkaf Relates to something @visakanv & @m_ashcroft & I were talking about the other day, about how anyone playing a long game is naturally allied with everyone else playing a long game.
Turns out in order to make something better... you have to make something better! This is a good thread.
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#Blockchain's question: "How do we get rid of the bankers?" #Holochain's question: "How do we better coordinate cooperating…
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following a discussion at @yak_collective this morning, I came up with this chart to capture a hypothesis I have that the difficul…
@sonyasupposedly bomping around, not really sure what's important a hazard of when I go to use Complice and notice a bug and wonder if maybe I should try to fix it but in the meantime I don't have my todo list 😂
Replying to @farhank_117
@farhank_117 if they need to be silent but like, with mic not muted, solution is to plug some old headphones into the mic jack of computer and set that to the input, and it basically won't be able to pick up on any audio but won't be muted. or a mic with an off switch. then you can type etc
@farhank_117 & can listen to music also might be able to just turn mic volume down to zero in zoom and/or your operating system
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If you're in high school or middle school, now is probably a good time to drop out and start a business. If you're in elemen…
@BellaRudd1 If you say that something someone said "became a meme" you're basically saying "wow, now it's spreading!" which is kind of a good thing although Yudkowsky's Law of Viral Inaccuracy says that this will result in it turning into evil paperclips 🙃😉🤦♀️
@_exoconnor sounds like you might resonate with this song I wrote maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/track/shes-got…
@adriandix Do you have any idea why the vaccine rollout plans aren't more ambitious than "have everyone vaccinated by September"? I think we could be doing a lot better if we seriously tried. I've been researching it and can't find many clues.
@AlanJLSmith @fortelabs what is "carried out"?
"There was no evidence snakes could climb the poles" — @DellAnnaLuca, riffing on the "no evidence" fallacy that has pervaded covid news coverage
@wherati @DellAnnaLuca @NewsfromScience as 1 tweet:
@Jeanvaljean689 @DellAnnaLuca I'd buy one. (if it matched my aesthetics, at least)
@utotranslucence You Are The One You've Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz = applying IFS to interpersonal relationships Making Sense of Behavior by William T. Powers = fantastic introduction to Perceptual Control Theory
tsunami vibes 🌊 feeling like the ocean is receding? brb
@maybegray wow! powerful. I love that it has mirrors, and the ⚡️🤯
@maybegray update from like day 15 or whatever?
@nickcammarata @nosilverv I think I have a bit of this and found that midday naps helped a lot. The only stable schedule I've had where I sleep at the same time every night and don't lay awake for 1h+ malcolmocean.com/2016/04/polyph…
@Jeanvaljean689 @nickcammarata Jill Bolte Taylor's description is great, although McGilchrist notes that the effects of a stroke a multilayered and include both activation and deactivation. But yes, the split RH probably does feel fairly one and can't express it. idk what happens in wada tests re this though.
@MilanGriffes +1 I have an ongoing shortlist of folks I would buy out of their dayjobs at numbers lower than that. At a $500M scale, I'd definitely be trying to create something like the next Bell Labs. (Which I already am but having an epic physical center would help a lot)
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ultraviolet + infrared images of saturn, venus, jupiter and uranus by hubble mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/640523335…
@maybegray @visakanv @doctorow this also me
hmmm this is relevant to people trying to do the sort of thing I'm trying to do eg @visakanv, @jambarree
Retweeted @AdmiralOPG
Gupta's First Law: "Every exceptional ability first began as defenses"
@AdmiralOPG Similar thread I wrote a few months ago:
Thread · Annoying traits in loved ones as their self-care · 1 of 5 tweets
> Gupta's First Law: "Every exceptional ability first began as defenses" — @AdmiralOPG (twitter.com/AdmiralOPG/sta…)
topnotch thread about men & anger I have noticed times myself when I don't have mental space to orient to solutions to my problem because I'm utterly preoccupied with wanting to feel heard more than anything else.
Retweeted @_wayneburkett
Super hot take: the reason you could historically tell a lot about a person by how they treat the powerless is that soci…
Replying to @wanyeburkett
@_wayneburkett 🔥 You might like the book Somebodies And Nobodies It's about going up a level of abstraction from specific inequities and instead saying "Everyone gets dignity, no matter what. No form of rank or power—old or new, social or force—gets to justify contempt or depersoning."
Replying to @por_ous
@por_ous damnit, I was so excited to do that 😂
@coponder @visakanv @jambarree Ohh, interesting, yeah. It's got elements of production community, but I think in a pretty impossible-to-coordinate way. Like the sea shanty thing is happening, but you couldn't necessarily *make* a barbershop thing happen, in any particular direction.
@jambarree @visakanv I think they're kind of going in a different direction than this chart, maybe.
𒀔 wow, just accidentally entered this beautiful unicode character while trying to type a different code point 𒀔 it's cuneiform, apparently "ab times u plus u plus u" but idk what that means 𒀔
@kory_kilpatrick @aaronzlewis @DavidDeutschOxf Yesssss awesome. I'm stoked to jam with you about this at some point. Would be good to catch up—curious what you're working on these days.
@visakanv @michaelcurzi yeah, part of my rant includes the many opposites eg what is the opposite of 5? • -5, which cancels out additively to zero (the identity of +) • 0.2, which cancels out multiplicatively to 1 (the identity of ×) here is half-drafted rant roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@sashintweets @thepine64 how has your experience been with this?
@sashintweets @fortelabs yeah the whole point of having a portfolio is to test different experiments, so might as well strategically differentiate them!
@cortexfutura @Trent_STEMpunk @Conaw Oh cool, yeah. I think I read some of it years ago, and was in touch with @Trent_STEMpunk a bit at the time.
Sure, hotdogs, burritos, whatever... But is *lasagna* a sandwich?
Thread · World's biggest problems: generators, dialogue, integration, polarization
Gonna try my own quick thread of World's Biggest Problems, 1 tweet each. (In the order I think of them mostly, not order of priority per se.)
1. Grokking Generators: Not enough people are seriously trying to answer the question of what key generators are leverage points for everything else. How do we free up the time for people who want to do this to do this, and point more entrepreneurs at it?
2. Deep Dialogue: I see something important. You see something important. They seem in conflict. How can we come to see how these can both be cared for together, in a positive-sum way? How can we listen to each other, without losing touch with ourselves?
3. Individual Integration: Most people are quite traumatized, by school, work etc. How do we scale tools & techniques for helping people be able to untangle their own personal conflicts, and develop self-trust & learner mindset? (Sort of the 1-person version of 2: Deep Dialogue)
4. Polarized Perspectives: In order to dialogue with each other, we need to be able to get a shared read on reality. That's becoming harder to do collectively as people fall into different reality bubble attractors. We need conspiracy antidotes—rainbow pills & blacklight pills.
...those feel like the main ones @NeilThanedar's missing. Most of those would, one way or another, fall under his #1: 1.Maximize Human Potential And they aren't quite separate; they synergize. Solving these meta-ones solves the others, in the limit. But in the meantime...
In the meantime, good to also have people working on the rest of Neil's list: 2.Optimize Science For Good 3.Optimize Government for Good 4.Scale Clean Energy Cheaply 5.Scale Quality Healthcare Cheaply 6.Scale Quality Education Cheaply 7.Scale Quality Information Cheaply 8…
(Neil's list continued) 8.End Poverty 9.Prevent Suicides 10.Defend Water Supply 11.Regulate Food Supply 12.Protect Individual Liberties 13.Counter Authoritarianism 14.Recruit Independents Into Politics 15.Promote Independent Businesses 16.Value Impact > Labor > Capital
@NeilThanedar here's my attempt to fill in the main ones that seem missing from your list there's partially a level-of-abstraction issue—each of your proposed solutions implies a particular subproblem!
@NeilThanedar Meta-critique: you might get more engagement if you made the whole thing into a thread, 1 tweet per problem. Or a meta-thread: 1 thread per problem! On which note, I'd also love to see some of the problems laid out in more detail.
@meekaale @punkarelly omfg this is great I'm sold. lasagna is cheesecake. also this is 😂😂😂
Replying to @nbouscal
@nbouscal shit, hadn't,,, thought of that.
@kory_kilpatrick Cool, maybe ping me at that point :)
Apparently part of my system has decided that it is important to be mostly helpless until further notice, particularly about directly doing anything about it. This is pretty frustrating. Not sure what I need and not sure how to find out.
Retweeted @made_in_cosmos
Welcome to planet Earth, little wanderer. Let me be your guide here for a while ✨
Retweeted @ThrivingHenry
This month I took 2 "goal-setting weekend intensive" workshops, and my biggest takeaway was that I don't like the framin…
@made_in_cosmos ✨🌉✨ 🌠👶🌌 ✨🌃✨ (cc @maybegray @WeftOfSoul)
@SeanMombo Hey There Delilah hated it in part because it was fake guy isn't in a relationship with delilah like the song implies just met her once I think she had a bf she got so sick of hearing it on the radio too
Update: this is somewhat digesting, maybe? Feeling a bit lighter. Appreciated the spirit of a couple of people who messaged me ♥ although I don't have any particular way to deploy that atm.
On a call with @AbhayPrasanna and we're musing about the idea of a GPT-3 powered tool that auto-nukes your mic if you're about to say something you'll regret. "What did you say? Your mic cut out." "Uhhhh... let me put that differently..."
Retweeted @visakanv
wrote this at 20 twitter.com/lauralondon_/s…
@fortelabs Curious, Tiago, who comes to mind for you when you think of "people who consistently choose the most high leverage activity"
Periodically I find myself thinking about how louder music is usually more awesome but currently the bottleneck is eardrums. But potentially neuralink could pipe beats straight to your neurons at WAY higher amplitudes.
Retweeted @chercher_ai
clique 14 (n=36): roam therapy ingroup emotional relationships useful feels trauma relationship felt sort thread basically…
Retweeted @beh_zod
Systems thinking as (failed) systems shaping (via Donella Meadows “Dancing with Systems” - donellameadows.org/archives/danci…). Not eve…
Want to know about my personal learning journey over the past year, the deep research into trust I've been doing, and the story of how I ended up moving to British Columbia? 🕺💞🛣️🌊 I wrote about all of that in my yearly review! malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
Retweeted @EricRWeinstein
“I can see your point.” “Let me see if I understand your point.” “Let me see how much we agree before our disagreemen…
Thread · Listening to anger by hearing the collective pain behind it
Beautiful lil thread. Relatedly, a technique I have for listening to someone who is angry with me, when it feels like their anger is too big for the situation and my individual role in it, is to imagine everyone else who's ever been angry at anyone about the same sort of thing.
So someone's mad because I didn't text when I was going to be late, and they had to wait. Can I feel the collective structural sense of what it feels like to be in that situation, and how anyone would feel that way?
I get this image of a chorus of every time anyone has ever said "why didn't you tell me you'd be late?!" It's cacophonous to actually simulate hearing it all at once, but the point is to feel the intensity of the collective unheardness of this particular pain, as a shared pain.
There's an aspect for me in this of kind of burning off karma or something. The more I can really listen to this person in front of me and hear their anger, the more humanity can collectively be heard about this shape of thing.
This also applies to my own experience, in that moment. Maybe the way they're chewing me out is connected to a deep archetype, but maybe the experience I had of not knowing how to do anything different is too! I don't have to *like* them yelling at me.
I also don't have to sit and listen to them yelling at me at all if it doesn't make sense to me to do that. Important to not feel trapped in such situations! If the frame I'm offering here feels like it empowers you to do something you want to do, then great! No obligation tho!
@ThrivingHenry I think it's roughly the thrival thing that your Master Plan is about. Btw, if you don't already follow @nickcammarata, check him out. He's pushing the frontiers of power law distribution on how much it's possible to thrive!
Man is born descriptivist and everywhere is prescriptivist
@m_ashcroft @RichDecibels @uthmanzi 🔥🔥🔥🔥 fyeah to @uthmanzi's asking fyeah to @RichDecibels's playful persistent "let people pay you" fyeah to @m_ashcroft's curiosity about what he was missing fyeah to @AbhayPrasanna DMing me this thread
Retweeted @AbhayPrasanna
Zoom: Virtual backgrounds help you maintain professionalism with ease. @Malcolm_Ocean:
Retweeted @EdwardWertz
Clearly this was not one of them. :-P twitter.com/EdwardWertz/st…
if you haven't already bomped to this dance remix of the sea shanty boyz........... youtube.com/watch?v=zDTaeq…
@chriswaterguy I'm thinking primarily in relation to language. Kids infer the rules of language very precisely but they also (until sufficiently traumatized) just use words in the ways that feel right, not according to the explicit rules that ppl invent to try to codify how language be used.
@ElodesNL I think it's often redundant and implicit, AND also often nice. In my recent research into trust, I've found one often needs to say things that really feel like they could "go without saying". Makes a huge difference to some, but it's hard to tell who needs to hear it!
@ElodesNL One way I've pointed at this is like, people have been sufficiently traumatized around the validity of their own experience that it's not enough to not invalidate it—we need active regular validation by ourselves and others, in order to feel safe (in the meantime, while healing).
@nickcammarata @lilaexpt @chercher_ai In good company 🥰
Disagree re blowjobs. But this has been my experience of group sex so far — including during! I've found myself going "there's a lot going on here, it's kinda hard to get into the flow... but man, this is a hot scene! fyeah!" (I suspect this will improve with more experience) twitter.com/Alexandrovna80…
Replying to @Alexandrovna805
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@mattgoldenberg @liminal_warmth I've also found that contribute a substantial multiplier to how transcendent blowjobs can be by how I breathe and the extent to which I can relax. Without trying, an amazing blowjob can be transcendent. If I'm on my game, a merely adequate blowjob can be transcendent.
Retweeted @meekaale
there are things for which the best way to prepare is to involve oneself with some arbitrary interesting thing and crucially…
Thread · Applying to coach a Gumroad-style building course
This sounds like an awesome & timely course, organized in a great format! I just applied to be a coach, since this whole thing is right up my alley. 🔥🚀🫂
Here's a thread I wrote about similarities and differences between my approach and @shl/@gumroad's. (The differences aren't a critique, just a difference in priority—his approach will probably work better more mainstreamly.)
I've also recently been talking with someone who's part of a successful worker's co-op, and that has me curious what Gumroad is doing at this point with whatever extra money it has after paying its employees. Maybe it goes to Sahil, who then reinvests it? shl.vc
This is very much my aesthetic as well!
Ah I bomped around searching a bit and found this—I think he's talking about reinvesting in Gumroad itself. So maybe the investments mentioned above actually come from other funders?
Anyway, this course sounds awesome. Hope to see some of you there as participants or fellow coaches. It's time to build.
this is onto something... twitter.com/benedictevans/…
@harveykrishna_ What's a thing that doesn't turn you on as much as it used to?
@collinofzion this song – Home by Cory Wong – is one of those instrumental tracks that somehow impressively manages to obviously be titled correctly (there are a few versions of it; this one is maybe my fav - thx @joyurge) youtube.com/watch?v=aB6ng0…
Thread · Spotify, artist pay, and the externalities behind great UX · 7 of 8 tweets
Fuck this.
From the outside, I can say "well, it's partially an incentive thing". And that's true. But from the inside, "the incentives" are no excuse, as this article (aimed at academics) makes clear many times over: talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/0…
What are the actual leverage points? Is it the case that $10/mo for [ALL THE MUSIC] is just too low to pay the artists enough and the company enough? Can't spend it twice. Some numbers would definitely be too low. How do we know $10 is enough?
While writing this thread I rewatched this brilliant hilarious deadpan interview. While playing almost clueless, Jack unambiguously cautions would-be IPO investors against the $10/mo streaming business. youtube.com/watch?v=LB1sTH…
Seems like (if you read the original thread I QT'd) Spotify is maybe making it work for the investors by screwing over the actual artists. What enables this to happen? It's not as simple as "capitalism". Who gave Spotify the capital to be unsustainably competitive? VCs? Saudis?
@paulg has a classic essay Do Things That Don't Scale This Spotify thing, and the way Uber has undercut taxis, are sort of the opposite. It's like "claw your way to scale by any means necessary because you can't afford not to". paulgraham.com/ds.html
I have a lot of respect for companies relentlessly seeking the smoothest possible user experience & not settling for existing low expectations. Amazon does amazing work here too! What's confusing: in all these cases, half of the better UX is design, half is externalities.
Thread · Taking Ashcroft's Alexander Technique course and primary control
Finally coordinated with someone (@AbhayPrasanna) to go through @m_ashcroft's Alexander Technique course together, and I think this little excerpt from the intro deeply clarifies the whole premise of how he's doing the impossible here.
same vibe from @nickcammarata here
This bit has me thinking I really want an online course platform that readily supports students sharing video clips back into the middle, not just as homework assignments but as part of collectively creating what the whole course is. (kinda like sea shanty tiktok, actually 💞🚀)
> switch on your 'primary control', your innate poise and capacity of your body to float in response to, rather than fight, gravity This is what I'm here for. I have experienced my body like this and it's fucking amazing and I want it all the time.
I can't find the gif I want, but one of the most evocative images in my head for this is a scene of Captain Jack Sparrow fighting, drunk, and he's not… stumbling… but rather in a state of dynamic equilibrium, with the rum providing the tossing waves, instead of the sea.
Has anyone tried building paywalled email? As in: you have to pay someone to email them I've heard a few people mention it… …I guess tough because email is a standard, but... let's see, maybe an extension to SMTP or MIME…
Okay, so some sort of header on outgoing cold mail that says "here's the maximum I'm willing to pay for delivery of this email", and then supporting clients would detect that header on incoming mail and charge or reject accordingly (complex multistep process but doable)
Then if such a client receives a message that doesn't have a Delivery-Fee-Maximum header nor an Delivery-Fee-Expected-Waived header (for friends / existing contacts) then the client auto-replies saying "you need to pay $X at <url> for delivery to this address"
I guess pragmatically the way to do this would be to just give your actual friends an email address that works normally, but anywhere you're listing an email, list the paid one. Eg I get cold sales emails from people on IndieHacker regularly.
I wouldn't want a $2 fee they might pay to turn into me feeling obligated to actually reply to those though. And guessing most wouldn't pay, which is the point. *sigh* I enjoyed this ideation of how it might work though!
@jordanmoore me thinking out loud about what this might look like
@staringispolite @m_ashcroft @jongold > NuanceTwitter™️ ...bio checks out.
@edsaperia Sending love. I've been dealing with some similar stuff. Not sure how similar, but enough that I'm feeling lots of empathy.
Retweeted @ivomagi
This is your 1500ms latency in real life situations -
@nickcammarata @lilaexpt @chercher_ai @meekaale oh man I didn't actually notice the first time that I'm snuggling with @uncatherio! hi! 🥰
@TweetSimmo @fortelabs lol, what Tiago said 😂👇
@TweetSimmo @fortelabs but in all seriousness, it's tough to tell, because afaict the biggest leverage points are super meta ⏬ and while it's important to ground your activities out in actually doing object-level stuff, that stuff itself doesn't look that high-impact directly
fyeah, QC's back on Twitter *hugs*
@MilanGriffes @nickcammarata @lilaexpt @chercher_ai @meekaale @uncatherio This has me thinking that we need a mashup of @chercher_ai & this @maybegray twitter friends thingy… like basically auto-generated cuddle puddles.
"I don't really think you can A/B test your way into something groundbreaking." — @Conaw
In metaphor-based design, you're not trying to tell the user what to do, you're creating a context where the compounding actions are the obvious ones to take.
@CruzCalvo The ones that build on each other, like compounding returns. Was kind of a narrow term; the original tweet was roughly a quote from something I said out loud, with more context.
@BlackForestBoi @harmonylion1 @RoamResearch's Daily Notes page and how it's central. Ironically, it's more of a notebook than Evernote is, even as it's so much more. With a notebook, you naturally open it up, write the date, then write some notes. Those behaviors are *obvious* in Roam, and not in other apps.
@Aella_Girl @Toy__Truck Could do another poll that asks something like "compared to X years ago, do you support Y: - way more - maybe a lil more - maybe a lil less - way less ?"
@Aella_Girl @Toy__Truck though would also be interesting to capture flips.... maybe do a kind of 2×2 of whether someone supported before or not, and whether they do now or not? although I expect many people would have been *neutral* before. hard to fit in 4 options 🤔
@tracklib maybe @vulfpeck they're kind of already the next James Brown
Thread · Spotify, artist pay, and the externalities behind great UX · 1 of 8 tweets
Re Spotify, if you haven't read my design rant about audio-streaming services, that's definitely a great place to surf to from here:
@CruzCalvo Oooh exciting, you may want to jam with @juanlanteri and/or @Beehtrix, who are working on similar things.
@CruzCalvo @juanlanteri @Beehtrix I think pessimism is warranted for anyone not doing new things, but there's been an absurd pittance of innovation in music streaming services—absurd because it's practically a commodity, so that's the obvious way to differentiate.
@geoffreylitt I have notifications from almost all apps blocked by DND mode, which is on by default. Only a few people can get through. But leaving those channels open means less frenetic checking.
How long until twitter supports [[Roam]]-style page ref syntax? I'm serious! Don't forget—all of the following features existed as user-created hacks before they were part of twitter's design: • @-mentions • RTs • #hashtags • cashtags (eg $AAPL)
And what would such a feature DO? Obvious thing for it to mean, I guess, given how it works in Roam, would essentially be a user-specific hashtag—it would click thru to other tweets by that user that reference the same page name. (Plus maybe show other users w same page name!)
This could maybe be implemented by an extension developer, actually, like @nosilverv's @thlpr or @geoffreylitt's @TwemexApp: detect in-tweet roam-style pages and convert it to a link to from:username "page name" [[hackable web]]
@DianaZink cool to meet you on the #roamcult Clubhouse tonight! Enjoyed your vibe. Would love to hear more about this bit from your bio! What are you working on? > Re-enginering the Internet's incentives, so people can achieve more meaningful things together.
@CruzCalvo @juanlanteri @Beehtrix Would love to try your prototype btw!
@anirudhbadri @nosilverv @thlpr @geoffreylitt @TwemexApp Hmm? I'm just talking about string find-&-replace in HTML, for a really simple regex.
@quirkyllama I don't think I fully follow what you're saying here, but Spotify presenting itself as a discovery platform then favoring its own artists opaquely is deception. Steel is a commodity. Seems very different.
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
People don't talk about it ofc but death & "productivity" are inextricably related. Not a coincidence that https://t.co…
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa man I can tell I'm in a funk by the fact that I have the slightest doubt about whether that includes me very uncommon for me which makes me both more worried and less ↳ more because stuckness unfamiliar ↳ less because regression to the mean
Interesting. Vaguely curious if any of these are parody. In any case, there may soon be huge swaths of memetic turf up for grabs...
Great design thread.
Retweeted @harmonylion1
If the medium is the message, Building is the new writing
@m_ashcroft I also think of this as like "always dancing" which is a phrase that's definitely connected with my wanting to grok AT. Happy to jam with you about more metaphors! Maybe a 3-person call w @SarahAMcManus, who is also interested in your course and may look over my shoulder.
Retweeted @Pramas
Hi, it's me, your friend who has spent over 40 years studying World War 2, and today I'd like to talk to you about dolchstoß, t…
@BraveSampson @chipkellam @VinnyLingham @juanbenet @brave @IPFS Yeah this is the irony 😂 I once had a user say "you should add this thing for brave! I bet you have lots of brave users" and I was like "cool lemme check—wait." (Am now brave user myself)
8s video youtube.com/watch?v=ugRkjr…
Replying to @magghu
@magghu where's your attention going instead? do you need a rest? do you need to take care of something else? do you just want to put on some energetic music and open up The Most Dangerous Writing App and just start typing? squibler.io/dangerous-writ…
@emmaconcepts i gotchu fam (this is actually a full legit relevant useful thread, not just a shitpost, to be clear)
Retweeted @balajis
Wow. GPT-3 nails a diagnosis that took @colinmegill 32 years and countless physician visits to figure out. The prompt was the…
me: …I'm grumpy! @SarahAMcManus: you are! what would make for a peak experience of grumpiness? M: …are you saying I'm not grumpy enough? S: apparently not, since you're still grumpy 🤷♀️ M: you're… good at tantra!
My philosophy as a not-yet-a-VC / a "VC for the relationship & meaning economies": I'm not seeking 10x return on money. I want to be a *customer* who spends $$$$$$ on behalf of the world, for things it needs; satisfied if it exists. (Ofc, somehow more $ needed for next inv…
@harveykrishna_ @imhinesmi @yashkaf yeah this not sure what to answer on poll
@mechanical_monk Yeah I work at a standing-only desk and find that when I've worked at an adjustable one I'm way less productive because I spend a third of my time questioning if it should be in a different position.
Reading this article and struck by a sense that shorthand like "far right" & "fascists" are being used sloppily (in general, not just by TC) and we'd be better off with full phrases like "people who advocate violence as a solution to disagreements" or "p… ift.tt/39E3SQX
or "people who support using race as a way to decide who gets hired, fired, or arrested" or "people who are, as far as I can tell, saying whatever they think will get them more favor/power, rather than speaking truthfully" (separate from whether I agree with them)
...although tbh part of the issue here is speaking in terms of "people with XYZ trait" at all—even if you make it more verbose, it still reifies the idea that certain people are the issue as opposed to the behavior patterns, which occur to greater & lesser degrees in most people.
@brianswichkow btw, there's a dead link on mythos and when I tried to email the help@mythos address it turns out it doesn't exist the dead link points to here from the Brian+ page mythos.one/brianswichkow/…
stoked about what you're doing, also! resonates with some of my thinking, eg
I feel like if I were Pfizer I would be giving the doses to Canada, where they're actually getting distributed, instead of the USA where they have many millions unused and lots going in the trash. 😡 (Obviously not that simple, but seriously.) ift.tt/2LRuKoK
@sashintweets the imagery of "broken" is a metaphor with rich connotation. it implies some damage occurred to cause the present limitation a healthy newborn baby has lots of room for improvement but calling it broken would be profoundly misleading about what that improvement looks like
@sashintweets the issue here is that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" does not apply to complex organic evolving systems, for which "broken" is not an appropriate adjective (converse would be referring to your car as "sick"; it won't heal itself with plenty of rest!)
@sashintweets here's a thread I really like that talks about the flow-breaking phenomenon of when thinking of yourself from the outside gets in the way of actually experiencing and evolving your life directly
@yashkaf not even sure what you mean by "more, bc trust scientists"
@MusingsOfYouth I think many people probably had an implicit embodied feeling that nothing that big could ever happen, which Covid disproved—whether the bigness is the viral spread or the narrative/media/govt response saying "nothing to learn" presupposes you know what people think they learned
@QiaochuYuan @emmaconcepts ladies, get you a man who can do both
@SnorriGodi Twitter *users* didn't pick up wiki style page refs from Wikipedia, but they are from Roam. Since my basic premise was that most twitter features are user-driven, I think your tweet supports my point rather than detracting from it.
Replying to @sarah_cone
@sarah_cone @nosilverv @thlpr @geoffreylitt @TwemexApp Nice! The API seems to be coming along pretty slowly & buggily, so I don't think you're missing much at this phase. And once it's public in a few months I think this pipe will be pretty quick to build.
@sarah_cone @nosilverv @thlpr @geoffreylitt @TwemexApp (I'd be trying to lobby for you to get API access if I thought otherwise, but I genuinely think that's just not where you want to focus at this stage, since API is still in test phase so you wouldn't really be able to get it set up with actual users and real databases.)
@visakanv Oh man I feel you. I'm so looking forward to jamming with you, or performing on the kind of small scale that we'd be likely to get up to while mostly focused on other things. (I'm also remembering this dream 👇)
@sudonhim idk but apparently I have decided I'm going to link you this twitter.com/FelicityMorse/…
Retweeted @joyurge
Yooo, this description. 😙👌 I want a thread of instrumental tracks "that somehow manage to obviously be titled correctly". He…
Replying to @joyurge
@joyurge Not as tight but it consistently comes to mind when I think about this question. You'll also like it because the phrases are 15 beats long (4+4+4+3) youtube.com/watch?v=hrPDgu…
@ElodesNL Some high-level discussion in my yearly review post... more to follow. malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
@ElodesNL Also lots of my threads the past 6mo are directly or indirectly related to this, eg
@ElodesNL this and the 2 threads linked below it
@m_ashcroft Drunken boxing is similar but Jack Sparrow would have had a sword and also didn't seem so exaggerated as eg Jackie Chan or others I've seen do drunken boxing.
@thinkagainer Asking for reconciliation, yes. Don't goodhart on assuming that should look like an apology, because while apologies can be a useful tool in the toolkit, they're not that useful compared to deep understanding, and they're tied up in power games.
@thinkagainer Serious re "ask for reconciliation". I recently had a tense conversation w/ someone close to me, then shortly thereafter I just tried saying, verbatim: "I would like to reconcile" & that opened up a conversation where we collectively explored what trust had been breached & how.
Replying to @m2jr
@m2jr I know some folks who are already living in that future, to riff on your definition of a startup 😉 I don't have a particular concrete investment to recommend in this direction but I'm happy to talk with you about what it looks like and what the trajectory might look like.
@vgr What changed, compared to this perspective? I could imagine thinking that the below is still true just like, one level of abstraction up...
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery I think it's worth developing both of these axes extensively, such that you can honestly say both: "I can't believe how different I am from everybody" and "I can't believe how similar I am to everybody"
Retweeted @j_asminewang
what is it like to be Jacob, i wonder? happy 2021, y’all ✨ twitter.com/jacobcollier/s…
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin I've just been scrolling down your tweets and I'm enjoying the effervescent flavor immensely. Do your thing. (Was on your profile vaguely wondering if I want to hire you as writing coach—seems to be all the rage these days!)
Replying to @krupa1i
@punkarelly @QiaochuYuan @visakanv Unfortunately latency (lightspeed limits!) is too high unless you're within like 50 miles or something like that (I looked this up at the start of the pandemic) I think the solution for at-a-distance jamming looks more like this:
@punkarelly @QiaochuYuan @visakanv Ohhhhhh shit wait, last time I tweeted that, someone pointed out to me that this exists on iOS, and at the time I didn't have a device but I have since acquired one to use with Freedrum and ElectroSpit! So if y'all have iPhones maybe we can do this—welp, I have just made loop #1
@punkarelly @QiaochuYuan @visakanv idk how you find me but I think if you look up malcolmocean on @endlesssfm then you'll find a loop called Curious Vibe that you can layer on (and I think it does live too, but idk what that looks ilke)
@vgr I mean you said this elsewhere in this thread, which sounds like the same concept.
Got approached to feature complice.co in @AppSumo marketplace. AS: "Been hearing killer things about you guys so I had to reach out." Me: "What have you been hearing about us?" Vague reply: "You've generated some buzz amongst our customers and we paid attention" 🤨
@cuongtqtran @Growthfyi @dr Came across this convo searching for discussion after I got similarly approached.
Retweeted @drethelin
Replying to @forgingtowards
@forgingtowards I have a rant about how absurd it is that they all suck given that they all serve the same commodity (40M songs) so they really ought to be innovating more on features... ...and what I'd do instead. I know a few people trying to build something good.
"Maximum call stack size exceeded" after I pushed an new version of my @WorkFlowy library to complice.co to support mirror bullets…😬 Turns out I was naively assuming you can't make 'em circular! But you can, they just load collapsed-by-default to avoid infinity! ♾
@theorangealt I did say "Oh cool—what have you been hearing about us?" (didn't fit in the tweet) which doesn't sound skeptical in the way that it does without the "oh cool" Also I'm asking her to actually provide me value up front, rather than just selling.
@theorangealt Here's my reply: > Cool, can you link me to the buzz, or forward any emails? That'll help me better understand the context of how your customers see Complice :) Basically refusing to carry on the conversation while I think she's bullshitting me. Which seems legit, honestly.
(further context)
And my response re "buzz", to verify that lil claim about them paying attention 😉
My whole approach to this exchange was inspired in part by @visakanv's energy here 👇
@tnorthcutt I wrote a blog post on this years ago, with some reframings I've used: malcolmocean.com/grow
@tnorthcutt I've since come to appreciate that having the new framings isn't enough—you need to actually find the parts of you that believe the old framings and see why they believe that, in order to update. Thread ish on this:
@tnorthcutt Also a book summary that talks about this: lesswrong.com/s/ZbmRyDN8TCpB…
@tnorthcutt On the gripping hand, I'd suggest these things for yourself or a kid: • learning a lot about neuroplasticity (great starting point: Norman Doidge's book The Brain That Changes Itself) • practicing a physical skill one enjoys, to feel day-by-day improvement
I like takes that are simultaneously somehow right for the wrong reasons and wrong for the right reasons.
Starry, starry night… ✨ Paint your palette blue and grey 🎶 So many things are left unsaid 😶 It's hard to let you… go… 🌌
me: man, visual clutter is a whole thing! @SarahAMcManus: no, if it were a *whole* thing, it would be 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 me: I suppose it is more of a parts thing...
The "where [in/around your body] is this part located?" question in IFS etc has always felt vaguely fake to me (personally). My system generates an answer but it feels arbitrary, like "name a country", not something I'm actually observing about the part.
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Tired: Complex systems repairperson Wired: ✨METARINARIAN✨ (try saying it out loud! like a veterinarian but for fixing…
@visakanv @RonenV right but most rich people do not manage to be this well prepared. the richness is a necessary but not sufficient condition
@vgr @m_ashcroft - muscle compensatory stuff is relevant to Mr Alexander's whole experience
@xuenay Not at all. For 2 reasons I'm having trouble teasing apart. One is that "no" seems like an okay answer, vs presupposing the part has a location. The other being—ah, yeah, that I can directly poll the sensation question and I get what I get, but whether that's "the part" 🤷♀️
@jasongriffing Internal Family Systems, a method of untangling internal conflict based on taking habits of speech like "part of me thinks" very seriously, and giving names to those parts and understanding how they relate. @xuenay has an intro here: lesswrong.com/posts/5gfqG3Xc…
@DiamonDie To be clear, I don't think it's a bogus question for everyone, just that my system in particular rejects it somehow. Seems possible even that part of my system is actively subverting the question, and I can tell. Feels vaguely true that it would feel bad to know part location.
Replying to @qchurious
@qchurious @a_witch_in_time Man I keep seeing all these rich subthreads with @a_witch_in_time but I don't have follow access! So curious! 💜
@QiaochuYuan @OperationMoksha success % is maybe not the way to think about it how much difference ~coaching~ makes is a power-law thing, both in terms of which clients and in terms of which sessions one client I couldn't help with his procrastination at all, but I nudged him into getting a dream internship!
I'm at the combination charnel ground and pure land
Replying to @qchurious
@qchurious yeah that makes sense also if something like that starts happening again, on either acct, it doesn't mean you fucked up — all part of the learning process
@maltybegray @qchurious @dispirateparts imx ppl are afraid of panic because they don't know themselves how not to panic while being in contact with panic I was early panicked last Feb and the ppl close to me weren't like... rude? but they were clearly trying to contain me like a poison, not contain me like being held
"@danlistensto the long come down" ↘️👇⏬🔻⬇️📉🔽👎⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=LdHKIx…
Retweeted @visakanv
sometimes when you have 2 beliefs that seem contradictory, it’s not that one belief is correct and one is wrong, but rather t…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i really dislike the word "misinformation" / "disinformation." it's presumptuous to assert that you know what constitutes…
Replying to @PlzBeSensible
@PlzBeSensible @pervexists69 My eye caught this for a moment and I'd already tabbed away when my system parsed it and chuckled. Nice.
@acidshill I have over 4000 followers now but most of my tweets get between 1 and 10 likes, which has also been true for a long time 🤷♀️ ratio has me sometimes confused why so many people follow me, and I've yet to feel like I grok it
hmmm essentially the speech-act equivalent of a belief we could make a 2×2 or maybe even 3×3 for this, with "bullshit" (may be true or false, speaker doesn't care) in there somewhere
1st dimension would be something like "to what extent, in this context, is this a useful map of reality?" 2nd dimension would be "to what extent is the speaker earnest/honest, bullshitting, or lying?" .......wait did I just reinvent Simulacra Levels? paging @ben_r_hoffman
The first explainer of Simulacra Levels that made any sense to me was this: thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/sim…
@QiaochuYuan I was on a similar train-of-thought here
The USA has been grappling with too many vaccines, not enough needles in arms. Meanwhile in Canada, we're short on distribution but some provinces are making up for it by administering more doses than they even have!
(this is a joke, to be clear; the apparent impossibility is due to delays in reporting distribution compared to administration—but it's a serious issue that Canada is not getting vaccine doses fast enough!)
Source for chart btw: ctvnews.ca/health/coronav…
@mattgoldenberg my experience is that switching accounts within the twitter app is glitchy since I keep a lot of tabs open, so I approximately just use a different chrome profile for each account and it works way better for managing state
I'm thinking about choice... ...and thinking that maybe something would be clarified if the word "choose" was the same as the word "grieve". When something is truly a choice—not obvious—and truly chosen, something is lost, and is grieved.
I'm planning to explore taking 1 day every week off twitter, and getting lots of other people in our cluster/ingroup/scenius to join me--the same day! Which day shall it be?
@sashintweets People not having the capacity & skill & self-love to honor their own moments of "something is off here" which leads to people instead feeling unsafe and going into controlling or shutdown patterns. No space to think "they don't understand me; I still have a point; so do they"
@utotranslucence Idk if there's an existing word but it kinda rhymes with the "all bark no bite" image of a dog... or something about facades (all facade, no building lol)
@utotranslucence I've been looking for a related, more general word, to describe how it's almost always really hard to accurately imagine how it will feel to be inside of an experience different than the one you're currently having. Tho often we forget to even make a serious attempt to do so.
Replying to @m_altcroft
@m_altcroft do iiiiit or just explore what it's like to have that as your profile pic on this alt or on main
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa you're still afraid of it you still don't fully trust that won't happen I don't know why find out why and give that why a hug & integrate it I am not afraid of you going corporate any more than I'm afraid of @m_ashcroft becoming a hunched over Big Oil shill 😂
@meditationstuff My body definitely does not work like this. I seem to be 90% percentile athletic build regardless of what I eat or how much I work out--a blessing and a curse, though there are way worse set points to be stuck at. Have tried lots of experiments & nothing seems to change.
this hasn't met ordinary soundcloud-level viral thresholds, but in this case I nonetheless must insist that I share a link to me & @SarahAMcManus literally singing "I'm at the combination charnel ground and pure land"
very exciting to share a book I love with someone and find out how it intertwingles with *everything else they know* because ofc they're gonna develop syntheses that I can't because I don't have the other key ingredients!
Retweeted @edelwax
More of what Aviv's doing here! -> We've got to point at design choices, not ideologies. twitter.com/metaviv/status…
@edelwax Agreed! I've had a couple threads on this recently, about the need for design thinking in relation to free speech (hard to pull up on mobile (I really need to sign off haha))
@the_wilderless I am working on this. Well, many of us are. Growing crew of people with vibe like: There's lots of challenging work to do to untangle yourself on the pathway to coordinated action on large scales, but you can do it! It'll be hard at times but also fun! (see @meditationstuff)
@the_wilderless I think it's straight up both. People are better at being traumatically freaked out about the climate than actually doing something about it.
@lucca_dev I feel you I don't like Tiago's "copy-paste stuff" approach I do want to be able to find that stuff when I'm looking for it, but only because it connects with a thought I'm also having I guess his point is you often won't know what it connects with til later
Replying to @sarah_cone
@sarah_cone @meditationstuff Yeah, it's been frustrating at times but all in all I'm not inclined to swap with anyone 😛 Some men in my family had this build until about my age though then started putting on weight, so I'm not about to just totally forget about food & fitness.
@protoneutype a relative recorded a cassette tape of my natal chart when I was born and I listened to it when I was 14 and was like "wtf this isn't me" and was horrified at the idea that if my parents had listened to it they might have pigeonholed me it's traumatizing stuff
In 2017 I spent 2h re-reading and taking notes on the first 7 pages of a book because I found it so disturbing to my ontology and was trying to integrate it. (Rereading it last year I now think it's way unnecessarily belligerent but basically correct in its content.)
chop wood, carry water, debug code
Thread · When suggesting workarounds reads as not listening
Sometimes I am temporarily incapacitated in some way (eg tiredness or fixated on a task) and I do things that upset people. When I try to say "you could try getting my attention by...", they think I'm saying that it's their job to ensure I don't upset them, & feel blamed.
This is really frustrating to me because, sure, there might be something I can do about this ultimately, to have more capacity in these situations, but in the meantime 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 and it seems to me like there's some lower-hanging fruit they could pick that would improve things.
Guessing that part of what is going on here is: 1. they don't yet feel seen re their experience of my impact on them 2. in the convo, getting heard about that is more important than solving thing 3. they read my "here's a thing to try" as not listening!
I think also when people hear my suggestion, they think that if they tried it, it would be sort of enabling me to continue doing a thing that they think I shouldn't be doing. And that may be true in some sense*, but them treating it like that doesn't dialogue with my generator.
There's often an assumption that if someone really understands how what they're doing is hurting you, then they'll stop. This piece doesn't account for the extent to which we don't understand what's generating our own behavior in the first place, so we can't change it. Need both.
Part of where this assumption comes from is a counteractive model of behavior change where you try to repress the generator and immediately do something different. This is (self-)coercion, and creates tangles & internal conflict, on net.
Anyway, pragmatically, what / can do in this situation is to reaffirm my own intention to integrate rather than layer, and then figure out how to understand what the other person needs, both so I can help where I can, and so they can get space to hear how they can help.
@xuenay I am glad to have diplomatic relations with the society of Kaj. Sounds like a lovely community 🥰
@abettertake @mattgoldenberg there was a discord once that was only able to be postable-to for 1h/day (maybe by @suchaone?) unfortunately that hour was *exactly* when I wanted to be going to bed
Replying to @AkashVaswani7
@AkashVaswani7 @xuenay It's a whole bunch of things. I think I have the capacity to take a day off every week all by myself, but doing it with other people: - makes it easier & more fun - empowers people who couldn't do it alone - creates a kind of ritual — we need more of these
Thread · Design notes for a conversation-optimized Twitter replacement · 1 of 17 tweets
Thread about censorship, free speech, and challenges of creating moderation that is symmetric wrt partisanship but assymetric wrt favoring generative discourse over destructive engagement.
@divideby0zero how did things go for you on twitter-replacement ideas?
@AkashVaswani7 @xuenay To be clear, twitter is awesome and you'd have to pay me A LOT of money to stop using it altogether. Like >$1k/mo But I think the value *density* goes up if we take a day off each week. Gives us a chance to do deep work, which we can then share here.
@Pan_Quake I've been thinking for a few years about how to redesign twitter to make it better for conversation, and I'd love to help y'all think about what you're making and how to have it be a huge win.
Based on looking at what you've got on your homepage so far, the PanQuake curation tool strikes me as very innovative and vital. Twitter branches out like crazy—no capacity to synthesize things while referring to original sources is a huge limitation.
ThunderQuakes might be if you can do it right, though could be a disaster if the incentives get weird or something. CupQuakes & LoveQuakes sound at best unnecessary, at worst awkward.
All in all what you've written hasn't yet crossed my threshold for it being worth donating to, because the twitter account was literally created this month and so I have no sign that you've actually thought about this complex problem for more than a week.
But yeah, maybe check out what I've written about it over the last few years, and let me know what you think, and let's talk.
*(although "reinforcement" is a less powerful concept than "reorganization", which is the idea that as long as people have intrinsic error (re hunger, sex, meaning, etc) their brain will reorganize to try to get it, and will stop reorganizing once error is solved —PCT)
be the vibe you wish to vibe in the vibe
@kenakennedy Oooh, well put. I didn't see this at the time but it has me excited to work with you. Yes, the media as a layer of the membrane.
@tsvibt Yesssssssssss rows & columns.
Replying to @VectorOfBasis
@VectorOfBasis never
@robertskmiles idk man I grew up going to church on sunday and inasmuch as people used the word sabbath sometimes it was in reference to that day 🤷♀️
Replying to @sarah_cone
@sarah_cone @VectorOfBasis Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman Book: amzn.to/2YaD0CQ Decided to share the notes I took at the time, so they're now here on my roamblog: intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
@reasonisfun Aware of the etymology, yeah! Cool to hear about Landmark's thing. Choice referring to the moment-to-moment emergent pathfinding process, decision to the thing that happens when you actively sacrifice something in favor of something else. tagging @m_ashcroft
@reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Whoa! And apparently the etymology of "choose" is related to "taste" (PIE *gues- ...probably relates to "gustation" as well) which really resonates with the Landmark distinction there, as tasting has a kind of exploratory non-cutting-off vibe (even though you can't untaste).
@IaimforGOAT @acidshill as of right now, this tweet of mine from 4h ago has 5 likes and allegedly 704 impressions
@IaimforGOAT @acidshill loooooooooooooool apparently me clicking "View Tweet activity" increments the "total engagements" number. and my views count as impressions.
@roamhacker @dvargas92495 @shawnpmurphy8 @houshuang @tylerwince @DharamKapila @cococ_rr @gottalead Is it just a frontend thing for userscripts & extensions? I'm not doing anything with that atm, though this may be a helpful starting point gist.github.com/malcolmocean/e…
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@FioraAeterna @qchurious @a_witch_in_time Oh cool! I mapped out basically the same structure here:
@FioraAeterna @qchurious @a_witch_in_time Also the second bit reminds me of this excellent article by @jessi_cata: unstableontology.com/2017/07/10/aga…
@OperationMoksha @QiaochuYuan In that particular case, I only worked with him 30mins/week for 3mo, and he mostly wasn't looking to do the kind of deep untangling / shadowwork that leads to lasting change (nor did I know how to intentionally facilitate anything like that, at that time—this was a few years ago)
@lucca_dev song I wrote that includes the lyric "I like to be confused, 'cuz then I learn" youtube.com/watch?v=mT9KOX…
@mattgoldenberg @jondubin @Conaw @michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel how did I affect it? I've just barely scratched the surface w prayer in any explicit sense though this is/was clearly an act of prayer:
Replying to @cabowlogy
@Charles15224578 @Aella_Girl @ESYudkowsky Yeah, basically a moment of attention, or a beat or rest in the music of thought
@chriswaterguy @theorangealt I totally think that's how their model works, yeah and not a fit for what I want to do I basically don't want to sell Complice to someone who doesn't understand it already
@Aryeh___ @sashachapin a few DMs later and... it looks like
@sashintweets Our relationships with things are all in essence complex because of the nature of human meaning-making, but the things themselves can be simple or complicated. (If you don't have context on a technical distinction between complex & complicated 👇) youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz36…
@sashintweets To take an example of a simple thing that can be broken, consider a pencil. Oops, the lead broke. In this case, "fix" is not quite the word, but there's a thing to do in this situation to "repair" the functioning of the tool.
@sashintweets To take an example of a complicated thing that can be broken, suppose you drive over a rock and bust the oil tank on your car. The car is a complicated system that is now broken and if you don't fix the busted tank other components will get broken too. But you can fix it!
Yo @psobot, it's been awhile. Random proposal of a hackathon where we build a prototype of this:
@louisbarclay @sandbags @RoamResearch @jeremysallen Yeah! I appreciate you sharing this. I'm doing okay for now (especially since it's already working no hassle) and am also glad for you to be supported.
Replying to @sarah_cone
@sarah_cone @Conaw I'll have to try out Column/ to get a better sense of how they would integrate. I don't yet have a taste of the magic you've got brewing over there.
@sarah_cone @Conaw A couple things that come to mind though: Adversarial Collaboration: two people with opposing views work together to summarize something. Could build features like this into Column/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversari…
@sarah_cone @Conaw Some hazy sense there's juice in something about the lifecycle of StackExchange Q&As, the kind of ongoing building of resources, where old answers to questions die off and new ones emerge as better (that in some cases weren't even possible where the question was first asked).
@maltybegray for dancing, somewhere on the silly—sexy spectrum youtube.com/watch?v=hOEMsq…
@maltybegray for falling in love again and grieving the moments you've hurt each other soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/h…
@maltybegray for releasing shame around mistakes youtube.com/watch?v=O2yPnn…
Retweeted @selentelechia
luxuriating in mediocrity taking all pressure off of myself to make anything better than "good enough" realizing how…
Google just sent me a fucking notification with a "breaking news" headline "2417 new covid cases & 50 deaths in Ontario" & like... that's not NEWS, even if numbers are high. It's contextless data. Wait, those stats are actually average for the past week. NOT BREAKING NEWS.
Reading index cards as part of Coherence Therapy has given me a totally different appreciation for the value of re-reading my writing, in terms of integrating different perspectives I've held. This includes private journals but also stuff more like blog posts.
@alexandrosM a very direct therapeutic approach designed to test and teach the Emotional Coherence Framework described in this blog post it's mindblowing—one of the main sources of the insights I've had the past year lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
@nickcammarata Ha, hilarious. Also I was worried it would cause the text to show up that way when quoted in a reply, but it doesn't. Good work there! I've seen way more sophisticated extensions do way worse. I guess since this one is specifically geared towards email, you'd obviously test.
@QiaochuYuan @diviacaroline @acidshill yeah I considered the reselling thing but then I got your first-order thing based on this bit in the original tweet "(to be distributed freely to anyone you want)" - I sort of read "freely" as in "not for charge" although I guess there's an opposing meaning lol
@ben_mathes @QiaochuYuan the poll is logarithmic, with a 10× increase each time I think the actual issue was just this (since one can only do 4 poll options on twitter)
@QiaochuYuan @SarahAMcManus did you have a link about this being used as a technique for people stuck in a freeze response?
@QiaochuYuan it me in 2019 with McGilchrist most of my thoughts now are not about this, and it's slightly hard to remember even quite how it blew my mind! ...learning is weird
Retweeted @visakanv
me, in a moment of passion in a salon yesterday: “do you wanna raise your lifetime revenue by 5% or do you wanna live fucking…
Retweeted @Conaw
Talent is hitting a target others can’t hit Genius is hitting a target others can’t see Therefore... To the outsider watching…
@yashkaf @postpostpostr you could be a psychedelic rabbi like a Jewish version of this:
@maltybegray curious if you listened to any of the tracks people shared here and which ones vibed for you :)
Retweeted @visakanv
found this via @charlieglickman's FB: it's cute and silly, and/but it's also something lots of us do all the time!! we are…
"Decent chance I won't see it (✈️,🔕) or won't pick up, but if I do, I will do so wanting to talk to you, & in any case I'll be glad you reached out." = how I relate to spontaneous phone calls (particularly ppl close to me but also kind of in general)
ICYMI
@Conaw @NicoandVinz There's a gorgeous @Jason_Mraz song I Won't Give Up that initially scans as a romantic love song, but in all of my striving towards loving, healing, & coordinating humanity, it's one of the pieces that has kept me going: a love song to all of us ♥ youtube.com/watch?v=0cNhpI…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@Conaw @NicoandVinz There's a gorgeous @Jason_Mraz song I Won't Give Up that initially scans as a romantic love song, bu…
@Conaw @NicoandVinz @jason_mraz pretty good odds I played I Won't Give Up on the roof of your van, as it's from the same album as 93 Million Miles
Retweeted @utotranslucence
No one is a universal asshole; one is only an asshole in context
@nickcammarata people have profound learned helplessness around actually creating new solutions to problems that have existed for awhile, even if there are plenty of reasons to imagine there might be new solutions
Retweeted @yashkaf
"All this predictive processing in Rationality sounds like boring nerd bullshit." OK, how about the fact that it opens the do…
I was once chatting with a friend while recording a song for YT. I remarked in the chat after a take “This one wasn’t perfect, but it’s acceptable.” Him: “Don’t strive for 'acceptable'” but then after a moment, reconsidered: “On 2nd thought, acceptable is… acceptable”
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia See also whole-assed half-assing mindingourway.com/half-assing-it…
what about something like focusmate but for ppl in your network & instead of having some predecided thing you intend to work on solo you enter the space & vibe on "what, out of ♾️ possibilities, shall WE do w this hour?" then do it!
I'm thinking about "if there were a verb for "to believe falsely", it'd have no first person conjugation" & other less poetic ways of making the same point it seems obvious to me now that one can find one's ~false beliefs within "where do I disagree with (or distrust) myself?"
This image looks like a *specific* famous painting, but I forget the one. Help me out twitter 🙃 /r/AccidentalRenaissance /r/burgerpunk reddit.com/r/AccidentalRe…
@davidryalpug @RichDecibels @douglas80_phil > would saying yes to this really cause you to say no to someone more prosocial? in reality? you can only spend time once
@utotranslucence @RichDecibels +10 to this whether or not you do the contract, this is seriously worth thinking about in relation to values conflict it may be the conflict is more about bureaucracy & approach to defense than defense itself
@QiaochuYuan yes! that is the one I was thinking of not actually that similar aside from the angle and basic structure, I guess I thought there was someone outside in the original too but I guess not
@KeyOrgSystems @QiaochuYuan No, Tom's diner is a song about a guy who evades the draft
This is such, such, a potent extension of the original quote about talent & genius! Sometimes the target becomes more visible once you've hit it, which is what happened to @RoamResearch & @Conaw last year.
Occurs to me that probably part of why I was able to give @Conaw useful feedback on Roam before it fully existed is that while I didn't know how to hit that crazy target of his myself, I was somehow somewhat able to SEE his target & help him aim. 👁️🎯
"my love language is design" &
Retweeted @PaleFeatherZen
I don't know who needs to hear this but
#TwitterDayOff Main conclusive thing about this poll 👇 is that if I'm going for T-alliteration between twitter & a day of the week, Tues handily beats Thurs. I'm considering myself doing both Sunday & Tuesday, and encouraging others to join on whichever day(s) suits them best.
I'm concerned that doing it multiple days though would dilute it substantially unless there were at least a handful of other people down to do the exact same 2 days, or something like that. Don't wanna end up with parallel groups that never talk because opposite days on/off!
Thread · How to actually take a day off Twitter
Thread of thoughts on how to take a day off of Twitter , since a bunch of us are apparently going to be starting to do that soon!
First, to get this out of the way: if you slip up and go on twitter when you intended not to, it's not the end of the world. Beating yourself up about it probably won't help. But it's okay if you do beat yourself up about it too.
My suggestion if you realize you've found yourself on twitter on a day off would be something like, just tweet something that says: "Oops, I just remembered that today's a #TwitterDayOff for me! See you guys tomorrow!" and then sign off! (or just sign off without tweeting)
Anyway, having gotten out of the way that its not a cause for shame if you accidentally sign onto twitter on a day off, what are some things that might make that easy/effortless/natural/downhill?
I think it helps to announce it, so it's not just a vague intention but something that actually exists in the world, where other ppl are expecting you to do it. So put #TwitterDayOff or #TwitterlessTuesday in your bio, maybe pin a tweet the first few times, etc. What feels good?
Then if you're like me and you tend to leave a bunch of twitter tabs open, you may want to stow them somewhere. There's no perfect option for this til I tempt someone into making Tinder For Tabs....
...but a few approaches to getting tabs out of the way: 1. literally close them. best, but can be hard to do since you may be like "wait I wanted to repl—" 2. snooze them with an extension like Tab Snooze. they'll come right back wednesday! 3. something like OneTab / SessionBuddy
more approaches to getting tabs out of the way: 4. drag them to a different window/workspace that you can easily ignore for the day - preserves state fairly well, and pairs nicely with 5. use a userstyle that overlays a thing covering any tabs that ARE open. mine looks like this:
here's a bit of code if you want something like that. you can customize the message and colors. install an extension like stylus then import this css: gist.github.com/malcolmocean/5…
and of course you could also use something like stayfocusd, which is an extension that blocks sites. it has a weekly schedule, which could make it really easy to just make twitter go away certain days of the week, with very little effort
of course, if you have twitter on your phone (which tbh I do *not* recommend) then you'll want to log out or at least disable notifications from the app, or maybe block the app using some phone tool for doing that
okay, will add more stuff if I think of it feel free to share suggestions here 🚀 oh! one last important thing. if you're the sort of person who will readily just displace your twitter urges onto reddit or fb or somewhere with *lower* ROI, then block those sites too!
oh and also decide what the boundary of the day is gonna be for you. for me it'll probably be when I wake up til when I go to sleep, but I could imagine some people wanting to do midnight→midnight for reasons, or whatever just don't have it be ambiguous!
#TwitterDayOff Most votes were for Tuesday & Sunday, fairly close. I'm going to explore taking tomorrow (Tuesday Jan 26) off, and invite anyone to join me who wants to! @meekaale @m_ashcroft @AnthonyBaker @jstanotherview @abecedarius @ifIknewIdtellya (@xuenay may be asleep!)
If you want tips on how to think about this, or whatever, check out this thread:
Then I'll probably take Sunday of Twitter too! To explore how each day feels, and provide energy towards people getting a chance to try it who won't do Tuesday. Maybe some people end up doing both, and some do just one! (@made_in_cosmos @empathy2000)
(I might also have a coding day this Thursday or Friday, which is a de facto twitter-free day for me but it's also an almost-everything-free day and part of wanting a day off Twitter is for other kinds of deep work.)
I'm also feeling into the possibility of having a day a week I spend almost entirely on calls with people. My extrꜵvert energy can handle 10h of that, and it really gets me vibing. Could have a sort of zoom drop-in room where I give the link to dozens of friends/mutuals. Hmm..!
what is the correct spelling for the opposite of "introvert"?
@QiaochuYuan @acidshill @nickcammarata @MilanGriffes yeah I went thru a sorta similar arc, & I still think it's a huge concern I'm glad MIRI is doing their thing I'm glad other researchers are I'm investing my time elsewhere in meta stuff that will help eventually but I'm definitely making a bet nothing explodes in the meantime
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in retrospect maybe a memetic advantage i don't talk or think much about having is that i was AGI-pilled for long enough t…
@mattgoldenberg am interested! uncovered some stuff in my coherence therapy session today that seems like it would be look-at-able in a fairly non-sensitive way generic patterns like "school made me feel like I didn't have free time so now I feel that way even though all of my time is free"
@mattgoldenberg I like being recorded and am excited that you're doing this and curious how the recordings will be leveraged.
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@robertwiblin some details here benkuhn.net/wireless/
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@BenRatkey I recently realized that I'm allowed to not have a star sign and that was incredibly liberating used to concede that I had one just because I had a birthdate, but... what if I didn't, though? "assigned <starsign> at birth" 😂
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Me and some others are taking tomorrow, Tuesday Jan 26, as a #TwitterDayOff, as part of an exploration into the value of having a weekly day off of twitter. Join us? (realized I'd buried the lede in this tweet below)
Wow, Culadasa's account here is a pretty fascinating read. Points at some of the drawbacks of (certain common narrow approaches to) dharma practice, and is a great exploration of the response-ability of everyone involved, in a fairly blameless & generative way.
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@selentelechia I'm just waiting for @eigenrobot to drop an "extrꜵrdinary"
@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan @acidshill @MilanGriffes +1 to this as a thing worth saying I mostly don't think I need to hear it, like, on the whole? overall it feels motivating to me to see the connection between my work and powerful leverage points for meaningful change
@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan @acidshill @MilanGriffes but there's also a feeling for me of like, this is the work I'm called to do, love to do, and am really well-suited for and even if I thought there was a fairly good chance AGI would eat us in a couple years, I wouldn't switch to pure math and I've accepted this
Thread · Coming alive as an ethical framework · 7 of 8 tweets
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman I think about this quote sometimes. 🙃ethical framework: 1. perceive the whole world as best you can 2. love as thou wilt
If you can simultaneously be experiencing profound ecstatic joy & pleasure to be doing what you're doing, and also be compassionately aware that others are experiencing profound nihilism, despair, & hell... ...and act from there... ...something becomes possible.
It's hard to put words to the thing. @HFreinacht has a great bit in The Listening Society where at least names the dimensions (up, down, & range) I'm describing in the previous tweet, and notes them as important and oft-overlooked dimensions of maturity...
He notes there's also: • symbol stage (how developed is the culture you are thinking in) • cognitive complexity (how sophisticated are the structures of thoughts you're able to think) These are clearly also key components to what it means to act well in the world.
But then also this!
Which relates also to Howard Thurman's point—all of the world's woes that are caused by things like bureaucracies and so on would be impossible in a world full of people who have come alive.
This thread feels sloppy but whatever, it's a sketch of a thing. I want to sign off twitter for 24h (after digesting whatever other notifications first)
@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan @acidshill @MilanGriffes something something this
@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan @acidshill @MilanGriffes ah yeah, my thing was a straw thing it is conceivable that I would try to deploy my gifts towards the AGI thing but like... only if there was a way to do that that I wanted to do? something like that?
@dankuck @Pocket Not interactive. Can't reply to tweets in Pocket.
@QiaochuYuan I be out here changing ppls' lives
@maltybegray @AskYatharth @maybegray this panda gif is 😚👌 what'd you search to get it
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I’ve mentioned an essay idea to several people in the past week and have received a lot of positive feedback about it. I cal…
@DonyChristie @NoaNabeshima @mattgoldenberg
@abettertake @QiaochuYuan I'd suggest starting with Behavior: The Control of Perception (or Making Sense of Behavior) by William T. Powers, instead of Surfing Uncertainty. Friston is brilliant but has it backwards because he hates surprise. Cybernetics is way more fun.
@michaelcurzi I mean personally I think there's some versions of it that's just actually a good idea, and then there are versions that are confused or whatever 🤷♀️
it me sorta I resonate with this a lot although my songwriting got into a weird state the last few years twitter.com/sheherenow_/st…
@nickcammarata @connerdelights ooooh I like this guy as an Idea Guy™ myself, I need to find more people I can inveigle into implementing stuff
@tessafyi @psobot oooooooooooooh cool maybe @gwillen would be interested in helping implement this!
@lucca_dev Yeah that was a delightful coincidence. The day we filmed the music vid, went into student center to have lunch, and a couple of band folks were doing a fundraiser, and I was like EXCUSE ME MA'AM MAY I BORROW THE SOUSAPHONE FOR 3 MINUTES
@mattgoldenberg @jondubin @Conaw @michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel oooooh yes definitely relevant. McGilchrist has affected my thinking on prayer, for sure
@dschorno drawing prompt: cariacature of the facepalmiest facepalm ever
@DianaZink huh, solving incentives in online sales seems like a good plan! how does it work?
@davidryalpug @RichDecibels @douglas80_phil nah, not true—as long as you can afford to not take the $ 100h spent on meh project is 100h not spent *finding* a hellyeah client, or on doing an independent hellyeah project I have 100× as much stuff worth doing as I have time in which to do it. youtube.com/watch?v=PdRjwH…
Oh sweet, there's a Bio-Emotive workshop this weekend. If you've been curious about the whole #SobSquad 😭😎 scene and want to go right to the source, this is probably the best opportunity for the next couple months. Really good tools for self-healing. mailchi.mp/bioemotivefram…
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@nuanceexists mornings
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@nuanceexists the best day you ever had (or, the day that came to mind when you first read the above line, before you overthought it)
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@nuanceexists find a poem or song and steal the title and write your own thing with that title like I did here maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/track/how-do-i…
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@nuanceexists immortality
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@nuanceexists find a quote (or a tweet) with an interesting metaphor, and turn the metaphor into a whole song
just typed "negibligible" definitely time for bed see y'all on wednesday!
Daaaaaamn my #TwitterDayOff was 🔥🔥🔥 Got a ton of great writing done (mostly on intertwingled.blog so it's semi-published though not broadcast anywhere) and also came up with a new awesome verse for a song I started writing in 2012, inspired by a recent therapy session.
Conclusion: I love y'all, AND we have been needing some alone time 💖 How did it go for others? @DaltonDEmery @nuanceexists @xuenay @ifIknewIdtellya @jstanotherview
And who's in for Sunday or next Tuesday?
@ifIknewIdtellya @xuenay @meekaale @m_ashcroft @AnthonyBaker @jstanotherview @abecedarius
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@jstanotherview @meekaale @m_ashcroft @AnthonyBaker @abecedarius @ifIknewIdtellya @xuenay Re delights *breaking fast* brings, my mood: (plus also I wrote a bunch of tweets I'll share later!)
@QiaochuYuan @forgingtowards also unlike winamp if you hate a song you can't even delete the mp3 twitter.com/forgingtowards…
Just got off a delightful self-energizing call with @CruzCalvo where he was showing me the prototype music discovery app he's working on and we were exploring various approaches to it, metaphor design, subtle ways to get more metadata to figure out what music people really love.
If you wanna join the conversation, here's a thread ranting about how absurd it is that nobody is doing anything innovative with audio streaming services. Still basic winamp ui.
And here's a thread about Spotify business model corruption, basically.
@meekaale @QiaochuYuan @forgingtowards Ugh, yeah. Mozart doesn't have a discography, he has "works". I'm kinda surprised nobody has built a music app *explicitly* for classical music fans. Seems you'd design it totally differently, distinguishing composers & performers in a way not seen in pop music. Clear niche.
Retweeted @meekaale
Concepts like dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin seem to play a similar role in our culture as Olympic gods, these sparkling m…
Great lil thread on taking the magic out of magic then putting it back in.
@divideby0zero nice :) I like nudging
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@arranrogerson why?
@arranrogerson wait, fuck
Retweeted @visakanv
A long term tension in my life: I don't feel qualified to lead, but I don't see anybody really worth following, either. When,…
@mattgoldenberg Ha, nice!
@visakanv @QiaochuYuan That is a great example, yup.
@mattgoldenberg I kinda like the name Transtheoretical Transformation, although you really have to consider with any name like that how it will get shortened. In this case I guess TT or TTT. Triple-T? Just for the love of all things holy, don't give us another CT.
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@context_ing @wasimlorgat There's also a magic technique while writing a blog post or email: Type a special character "(" and then you can type all sorts of meta thoughts about why you're feeling stuck writing and eventually some of those often turn back into writing the thing. Then type ")" & (➡️🗑️⬅️)
@ifIknewIdtellya probably me
@raminnazer I saw this shirt and I love it so much and I want one! Is there gonna be another run? (I told @SarahAMcManus this and she said "he'll probably reply "it's not happening as fast as you'd like but it is happening") raminnazer.com/products/happe…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@context_ing @wasimlorgat There's also a magic technique while writing a blog post or email: Type a special character "…
Cool thread about shame. I've sometimes said "most people don't know that shame is actually a kind of defensiveness." twitter.com/quotidiania/st…
something something philosopher kings
Retweeted @SupramanTrax
Pandemic Day 25: I made bread :) Day 95: I sure do miss my friends .... Day 310: The White House appears to be under t…
Am coding tomorrow, which will make it a de facto #TwitterDayOff. RT/QT/reply if you wanna join me.
Replying to @jayanthkumarak
@jayanthkumarak Haha yes, actually. I'll be hosting a complice room with a manual timer to fix a bug with the manual timer. So it'll be buggy for the first part of the day but having people join it will help me fix it 😆 complice.co/room/testman
@theorangealt @jayanthkumarak like 9-9 pacific time probably once I fix the manual timer I will leave a link in the footer of that room saying "actually check out this other room" because I mostly don't like working with manual pomo timers; I prefer the ones that run exactly on the hour & halfhour
@_0bso @uncatherio +1 to this course & what @uncatherio said about it!
@harveykrishna_ twf no kraken
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@alt_visa some people would find it that way but to the rest of us it just makes obvious sense that you would sooner or later find your way into conversation with that guy, given who you are and who he is, or something
power laws: understand them not all roughly-bell-shaped curves are normal
Retweeted @JeffLadish
10% cuck 20% shill 15% concentrated lack of goodwill 5% treasure 50% disdain 100% reason to remember the GME
# boring dystopia
source: facebook.com/duncan.sabien/…
tw: this is kind of funny but also I think the girl is actually freaking out for real (@eigenrobot idk how to find your tweet of just the original video) youtube.com/watch?v=CfCiW4…
fortunately, as @meditationstuff keeps reiterating, it's possible to reverse all tangles! and in this case that may have been pretty straightforward:
That thing you've been meaning to do... why haven't you done it? No, actually why? Assume your behavior has actually made sense, & try to figure out what that was, til it's like "oh, of *course* I didn't do it!" From there, maybe you'll do it, or maybe it won't actually ma…
Am gonna be off-twitter today, but you can hang with me in this complice coworking room: complice.co/room/testman @jayanthkumarak (I'm currently in there with @theorangealt, debugging a funny bug with manual-timer rooms)
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can't wait to explain this week to my therapist
....2021 is setting up to be a bumper crop year for memes. twitter.com/wsbmod/status/…
man I have not been doing well at off-twitter. caught wind of some GameStonk stuff and that's where my attention has been most of the last few hours gonna sign off now, take my nap, and dive into coding.
Am doing okay at coding but feeling kind discouraged with the messy hydra-like bug I'm trying to fix. It's a subtle edge-case but it's important. Come keep me company? complice.co/room/twitter-d…
@qu137157 @nosilverv @magicianbrain this video explores that idea (and many adjacent ones) hilariously youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c…
👶 we are but babes suckling the milky way 🌌
idk who needs to hear this but: 😮 it's not all in your head literally, not even figments of your imagination are all in your head. reality is way too intertwingled for that 🙃🕸️
"One marshmallow now is *infinitely* better than two marshmallows in 10 minutes," Tommy said hyperbolically.
Can you imagine not having the word "fun" and having to say the word "𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵" instead? This is the tragic reality french speakers are living with EVERY. DAY. (Sure, it has different connotations than in English, but let's face it: the word amusement is way less fun.)
> "After nearly a year my journey with this study had ended. I still don’t know if I was part of the vaccine or placebo group, but I will follow up with the researchers to find out once the study is unblinded. I know I either got the placebo or the vaccine wasn’t 100% effective"
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
maybe the next phase of the twitter game is we start businesses together
some people *genuinely think* making something illegal will make it stop happening, smh
Retweeted @maybegray
I need more Canadian friends please send me your Canadian friends so I can make them my Canadian friends
Replying to @ggddmmmm
@garethdmm oh yeah? name three examples 😂
me, @SarahAMcManus, & @LordChisholm in BC's temperate rainforest so freaking green & mossy the 360 lens really gives the sense of 𝘐𝘕 THE FOREST
@actualhog @SarahAMcManus @LordChisholm not sure what you're asking, so not sure what the answer is! can tell you it's taken with an Insta360 One R insta360.com/product/insta3…
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@m_altcroft @ofmorningshift basically what @m_altcroft said here
@mattgoldenberg @AskYatharth @QiaochuYuan probably I'm the main person who dropped the ball on pointing this out to you, since I'm aware of both 😝
Retweeted @AskYatharth
A good dance means just that. Nothing more. Nothing less. It doesn’t mean you’re perfect for each other. It doesn’t put y…
@focusmate Oh cool! Yo @QiaochuYuan what about using this ^ for brainstorming projects to do together?
market closed for weekend time to chill here's your chill track by @rothosphere to market & chill to soundcloud.com/mrgar/market-u…
@AskYatharth @pragueyerrr @maybegray Immediate follow of @pragueyerrr based on seeing her in that list w me & @maybegray! Link me to one of her main relevant tweets/threads?
@njerig_ !! I'm seeing "dreaming about new browsers" in your bio, and... 🤩🤩 ...maybe we want to talk sometime soon?
@njerig_ @AndyAyrey and I were jamming about stuff like this a couple weeks ago, and planning to build some OS workspace plugins (him for MacOS, me for Linux/GNOME) to do this
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@m_altcroft @alt_visa next meeting wen
Thread · Running list of people doing deep design work · 1 of 14 tweets
Another Deep Design list addition! idk what, if anything, @njerig_ is *making*, yet, but the bio "dreaming about new browsers, OSes, computer systems" plus some of the tweets I'm reading, clearly indicates an uncommon depth of thought! twitter.com/njerig_/status…
@AskYatharth @pragueyerrr @maybegray ...oh.
@AskYatharth @pragueyerrr @maybegray ....ohh 😉 Well fine. Hey there @pragueyerrr 💗 Come flirt with me in my DMs and tell me some of those wise & wondrous things you've been whispering in Yatharth's ear.
Muahaha I got it rendering in draggable 360 though it's distorted and has black sections. this site is clearly expecting something more like equirectangular and I'm not yet sure how to convert the i360 pics to that format. kuula.co/post/7wgzm
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@Malcolm_Ocean: "how many people have seen you naked? ... how many people have seen your bank balance?"
@QiaochuYuan I've barely had a real job as part of UWaterloo Co-Op I worked a few 4mo internships, mostly in software I've never been employed anywhere longer (nor was I ever employed for less time with the intent of staying longer) underscored for me that I did not want to do it longer
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
flirting except instead of testing the waters for sex it’s testing the waters for making money together
Replying to @forgingtowards
@forgingtowards Different context & timescale but the same insight implies that knowledge workers or creativity-driven workers should drink caffeine once a week when well-rested, rather than daily while sleep-deprived. Thread:
Retweeted @meditationstuff
@visakanv @nickcammarata gonna identify as an impressive helpless little creature
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
yesssss twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
Fuck I so want to spend a day responding to @QiaochuYuan's threads here, because this is my *shit*! ...but Sunday is #TwitterDayOff. That's okay. That day talking twitter-biz can be Monday. I have time-sensitive stuff to attend to tomorrow. This is about the long game anyway.
If you're interested in doing Sunday as a #TwitterDayOff with us, click through below for jumping off points (how & why) If you're not taking the day off, go check out QC's threads!! They're 🔥🚀🤑💖