@AskYatharth I bet your pure land in the streets is a carnal ground in the sheets
March 2021
@natural_hazard I got these (link below) awhile back. They were cheap (~$40) and fine. I forget what the battery life is. They're not currently for sale, idk what the new version is. I gave them to a friend when I found my $150 Jabra ActiveElites which I'd lost. amazon.com/gp/product/B07…
@natural_hazard Based on Wirecutter reviews, it seems like this budget pick with a 5h battery life per charge might be your guy. I only get 3h with my Jabras, though usually I want to rest for a few minutes after that anyway, and they recharge super quick. amazon.ca/dp/B0857JLRFJ?…
Replying to @nils_gilman
@nils_gilman @SamoBurja (may have a good take on this; afaik he is not himself an underrated statesman but it's plausible 😉 ... ah in any case he wouldn't be in the running for the 20th century prize)
@FmboyPsychonaut good reminder it is my nap time bye twitter
Thread · Telling a flailing party how to earn your vote · 1 of 7 tweets
Ahhh, a key difference here is that the axis realignment that's happening now isn't between "the working class" vs "the rich" it's between "the working class" vs "the educated/cultured" because ofc just because you're woke doesn't mean you're not also broke
Got some paperwork you've been avoiding dealing with? Come do a pomodoro with me and have a look at it. You don't have to get all the way through it today, just get a read on your situation. I'm doing expenses stuff for my income taxes. complice.co/room/paperwork
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the number of times I have tried in vain to access the CRA website (it's like IRS for 🇨🇦) because it's just after midnight pacific time and the site is down for daily maintenance 3-6am eastern *every day*... ...is too damn high.
@michaelcurzi did you know there's a sleep phase that is so unremarkable that it doesn't even have its own wikipedia page (though it's pretty obvious what it's for, and it's something humans don't need any more because we have secure shelter)
@captain_mrs I love so many egg dishes it would be impossible to name a favorite.🍳 So instead I'll share a novel one: wok-fried eggs scramble 5eggs+salt+pepper+spices in a bowl heat a wok to v hot, w copious coconut oil drop in half the bowl (=2.5 eggs) should get very fluffy flip, serve
@sashintweets that we really have no idea yet what is within the realm of human nature
Retweeted @ben_mathes
Listening to @EricRWeinstein on CH. talking about holding contradictions and that nuance trades poorly. Try: Holding cont…
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery have mostly heard @visakanv use the term, in which context it seems positive, but possibly reclaimed
@WeftOfSoul @SarahAMcManus got this sweet trippy refracty cube that is the same size as these lovely stackable colored wooden cubes
Any movement that condemns anyone who says "maybe this is too far" will inevitably go too far. bariweiss.substack.com/p/there-is-no-…
@MSlavin I nearly flipped a table when I realized cucumbers are a kind of melon
Replying to @histmatt
@histmatt @alt_kia I learned the lyrics to this and how to play this on guitar (basically just two chords) and it's SO FUN to play for people live, including sometimes in mixed company (age, status, etc) that involves people who would never say any of these words in front of each other.
@almostnora iirc @diviacaroline once kept a journal every night before bed and on getting up, and reflected about how it felt to have gone to bed as late or early as she did, as part of integrating those perspectives
Retweeted @paleoludic
So now that I've learned all this helplessness, when's the test?
@orpheaskk gonna offer this vaguely related song that includes the lyrics "I'm a product guy... and you're a produce girl..." youtube.com/watch?v=r4G0nb…
Tomorrow is the 6th weekly Tuesday #TwitterDayOff. I'd almost forgotten! Who's in? As usual, you can find me for much of the day in this pomodoro coworking room, if you want to connect there complice.co/room/twitter-d…
Reply below if you're in (not to late to start if you're seeing this tuesday morning!) and also lmk if you want to be tagged in future! Tagging @QiaochuYuan @forgingtowards @metaphrand_ @tasshinfogleman @AaronEstel @acidshill @meekaale @uberstuber @gwenshap from past weeks.
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot ...magic.
influenzer
@alt_tatsu ❕❣️🚀 looking forward to conversation about how you're making sense of the world on various scales
Just because you can't think of a good reason not to do something, doesn't mean you have to do it.
Retweeted @yashkaf
Zvi gets it. You're a young person betting at like 1000:1 that neither you nor someone close to you will become religious or i…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth "some form of ID", in context, made me think of this:
@gptbr00ke @maybegray @nerdposterino Me, also subtweeting the thing:
"The future's nature arrives through all our nurture" So many times I've been sad I can't retweet bios. I really like this phrase from @sonnenmimi's.
@sonnenmimi I'm here for this! I got super bored the couple of times I went to a strip club because I wanted to be dancing sexily and having people into it, and there's not really a way for patrons to do that.
@sonnenmimi My desire to do that was not special to it being a strip club, to be clear: that's what I often do in general at nightclubs or dance contexts or whatever. I can do some pretty hot stuff on a pole tho.
aim: to absolve everybody's sin, but actually explain to people exactly how I'm doing it so they can check my work it's insufficient to just insist that people trust me when I declare the previous moral regime has expired (even though Jesus was entirely correct on that point!)
soul'd
@protoneutype @sonnenmimi hmmmm yes this makes a lot of sense
@forshaper @GlitchesRoux Bio checks out: "When an egregore looks at me, I gaze long into the egregore."
@grantadever Perfect timing! I ate this ↙️ last night. it's a one-of-a-kind egg-and-gouda-stuffed-inadvertent-pizza-volcano! 🍳🧀🍕🌋 (photo on right ↘️ shows the original pizza with giant air bubble in the dough. I saved the bubble to fill with egg!)
Retweeted @protoneutype
are trip intentions like a placebo 🤔 (physiologically both modulate dopamine, and therefore the vibe of the onset of an…
@AskYatharth Still sometimes have it: • more or less acutely (about the whole person or just this incident) • more or less consciously (sometimes I'm literally thinking "this person seems stupid"; other times it just affects my tone) wrote a thing very recently: malcolmocean.com/2021/02/lectur…
@AskYatharth I also once had the experience of being very impressed reading someone's weekly newsletter, and then when we met up in person he seemed completely clueless. I knew he wasn't, because of his newsletter, but without that I would have dismissed him completely. Just couldn't sync? 🤷♀️
no amount of thinking you should want something makes you want it no amount of thinking you should trust something makes you trust it no amount of thinking you should feel something makes you feel it that's just not what thinking's for
@rosaclewis immediate follow for the "Seeing That Freeze" pun 😂
"what's cool about @visakanv's dominos thing it's that it's not just a vision, it's a line." — @AskYatharth damn, such a great point! it's a basic but still causal model of change & progressive tipping points what's your row of dominos?
@LordChisholm just saw this - it's great
Retweeted @DeathOfMystery_
thermodynamics: "rule 1: you can't win; rule 2: you can't break even; rule 3: you can't get out of the game" epistemo…
@DeathOfMystery_ I mean there's @CloneOfSnow
I love the image of the Mutuals Mall. We're gonna form a whole microeconomy, just you wait!
Oh interesting move from @SoundCloud. Talked about this exact thing around fair royalties w @Beehtrix last summer. Still a ton more stuff needed from streaming services in order for them to be better than Winamp + 40M songs. See my thread below:
Seems like an obvious next move is to allow fans to pay more. Similar to patreon tiers, except—OH! Holy shit, okay this is neat. The $ is automatically distributed based on how much you listen to each artist, but an artist could have perks that get unlocked at a certain $ amount.
So what this means is that if an artist makes a $7 tier, then if you mostly listen to them, your $10/mo subscription will get you access to that tier. But if they're only 20% of your listens, you'd need to have your monthly amount be >$35/mo total in order to be at their $7 tier!
This might be a bad idea, but it's honestly kind of a cool one. I originally wasn't imagining per-artist tiers at all, I was just thinking like, the bigger your monthly contribution, the more your fav artists get and also maybe you get an overall profile badge for it. But idk!
Retweeted @AskYatharth
When you don’t expect yourself to do anything—only notice what you’re being already moved to do—then your job becomes as a…
This thread and the other threads linked in it are a great intro to how to apply Perceptual Control Theory to doing stuff (well, non-doing stuff). cc @QiaochuYuan @karmacustodian @m_ashcroft.
I feel like it should cost *more* money to own a domain if you don't have anything meaningful on it. Like some cities tax houses more if vacant. (I have no idea whatsoever how to possibly enforce that; way to easy to make ad aggregators etc)
@RichardMCNgo @Ceasar_Bautista Yeah, this doesn't work for exactly this reason plus another reason: it would mean anyone could basically steal someone's domain if they have more money. Important to be able to say "this is not for sale".
I've Got Your New 1-question Personality Test:
@mattgoldenberg @sashachapin Similarly NVC seems like a great object-level communication protocol but a horrible meta-protocol.
@m_ashcroft I have billing set up through Stripe (using Complice but there are other ways) and so I just push a button when it's time to bill, and it goes on their credit card. No need to send an invoice or follow-up or anything like that unless the payment fails. Definitely the way, imo.
@m_ashcroft You're their coach, not anaccountant or tax collector. If someone wants to pay for your services, they should be able to be directly billable by you. This is also how my therapist does it and it's great. I don't have to think about paying her at all.
Retweeted @AskYatharth
Making money is a lot like pooping. I used to hate having to poop. Why do I gotta do this every day? Then it became clea…
Retweeted @visakanv
this wasn't obvious to me for like 20+ years: insulting others for being foolish is something that reinforces one's own fear…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth yeah, I'm pissed about this too we'll get some new axes maybe... "if you're not with us you're against us" vs "Both/And-ers"
@ForecastFire @__justplaying yeah idk about standing desks but basic math tells me that my dancing desk (hint: it's the same tech, used slightly differently) is more healthy than a sitting-non-dancing desk
@collinofzion If you learn the banjo part for this, I'll learn the guitar part and we can both sing, along with @QiaochuYuan & @visakanv to fill out the Ahhhhs. youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9q…
@collinofzion Totally uncalled-for banjo in this fucking broadway hit. (comes in about a minute in) youtube.com/watch?v=WySzEX…
@daemonhugger @_StevenFan Also reminds me a bit of @AskYatharth's Co-Lifing concept
Retweeted @webdevMason
Old enough to remember when this was authoritarian bullshit twitter.com/lwoodhouse/sta…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth not saying this tweet below is quite same.energy but it reminded me of your tweet above and I thought I would come share it
@coponder Yeah, there's also a thing where it's important to be gentle when trying to change words, and allow you system to reject the new word and say it's missing something important.
@AskYatharth @harveykrishna_ @Roamfu @jasongriffing @DaltonDEmery yeah, but that makes it a catch-22 you could say "christianity is about resisting definition" and they'd be like "uhh no" and you could still be like "gotcha" even tho...
Replying to @phr31nd
@metaphrand_ also possible that the benefit is entirely vestigial, in the same sense that "light sleep" is mostly to avoid being eaten by predators, but is obsolete if you have a house with walls (or even a friend taking a night watch)
@RichDecibels @zachphillips Totally! I thought it would take me weeks to learn this piano intro to Nina Simone's I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, but then I started completely ignoring the tempo and just doing each chord, then playing the whole thing at 20% speed. sheetmusic-free.com/i-wish-i-knew-…
@antar_app @aaronzlewis @krishkhubchand Haven't dug deep into it yet, but I'll let you know!
@anudeepy_ Lmk if you want me to check it out & share my thoughts!
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing Curious how you're thinking of it! It came to me as I fell asleep and then I remembered it suddenly the next day and tweeted it... but I didn't really think hard about what each "type" actually meant.
Had a dream I saw a building on fire and everyone pulled out their phones to take pictures (it did look really cool!) and I tried opening the Phone app to dial 911 but it had some new Augmented Reality upgrade and I couldn't find the dialpad.
@cheascake @BenRatkey not being able to find the dialpad was frustrating and made me pissed off at the state of app design making very simple actions very non-straightforward to take
@TylerAlterman I've enjoyed looking at curated tiktoks on reddit, which seems like... an okay way to get the heroin knowing it's fentanyl-free. Fuck that's not how I intended that sentence to end when I started it.
@visakanv half a caffeine pill (now 100mg) from a few weeks ago will probably take it today actually
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania legit
Retweeted @screaminbutcalm
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
@meekaale @visakanv @magicianbrain @LisaIRMcNulty @drossbucket oh man, I agree with your analysis here! fractal politics goes all the way to internal conflict too even to basic stuff like "keep working" vs "full bladder". I have no idea what to—oh. The analogy above makes me think this book about PCT + society maybe: amazon.com/Perception-Rea…
Open up a blank page. Title it "Things I want to say to X but don't know how" X ∈ {friend, partner, parent…} Write. Inspired by people replying to the below tweet saying they do this with a public alt etc, which made me think that they don't fully understand what I mean here.
There's an incredibly powerful level of precision possible here, which you can't access if you're tweeting publicly+vaguely/euphemistically, or doing something like this 👇 (though tbf 👇 was a specific suggestion to someone who couldn't write privately)
You want to be able to write "I think you are confused about ABC, & I think that because you said CDDD instead of CABC." You want to be able to write "I don't know exactly why but you seem to have a huge blindspot / ughfield around XYZ, that activated in this exchange."
@m_ashcroft There are probably apps that offer this as a built-in feature but I do not know what they are as for me it made sense to just write a hundred more lines in the Complice codebase and save all fees except the Stripe ones. Stripe itself might support this directly by now actually!
Replying to @phr31nd
@metaphrand_ you coerce yourself to self-actualize? 🤔 at any rate, I think this is part of the vestigiality. historically there has been plenty of coercion around these basic needs. eg hungry farmers needed to self-coerce to not eat seedcorn during winter, so they'd have food next year.
@michaelcurzi escaped from radioactive rubble, healing and trying to figure out how these new superpowers work
@Aella_Girl ^ this is legit a great description of (part of) your brand feels like a summary of how the strategy we talked about last year is playing out
J&J vax approved… prevents deaths but somewhat less effective at preventing people from getting covid in the first place? Seems to imply best to prioritize other vaccines for superspreaders / front-line workers. (assuming govts have the capacity for something so sophisticated)
How did this tweet hold up? Seems: • vaccines tech indeed developed in record time due to mRNA etc advancements • bureaucracy & lack of eg human challenge trials made that semi-moot • main "different world" was instead widespread global travel & info fragmentation 😒
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
People want more sessions of our sold-out Goal-Crafting Intensives, so for the first time here they are on April 10th &…
To some extent twitter SuperFollows (paywalled content) feels like a partial solution to some of what some people are using locked alts for — smaller-audience convos. Lots of weird details though re virality & mutuals. ~"mutuals get in free"? Hmm 🤔
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
There is only one to-do list system that has stuck for me: Every day I open a new note called “Today” and put tasks on…
If anyone want an app that makes this the default, I built it and it's called complice.co 😆 It takes care of the fresh-day-every-day part, and helps remind you of your big picture purposes as part of the context for what to do today.
After realizing that a bunch of my emotional flashbacks were essentially about memories of being sent to my room as a kid, I was inspired to write a letter to my younger self, explaining a little of what I now understand about punishment & learning. malcolmocean.com/2021/03/letter…
@natural_hazard Resonates with this blog post I published this week, talking about how limits on introspection make "think about what you did" an absurd command. malcolmocean.com/2021/03/letter…
@tasshinfogleman can't happen soon enough
Fun lil life pro tip that has worked like 12/12 times for me so far: Cashier: "do you have LoyaltyPointsCard™?" Me: "no thanks" The "thanks" smoothly makes clear I'm rejecting the implicit *offer*, before they even get to say "Would you like to sign up?"
@tenderlove maybe she's doing this 😂
Friend, n. Someone with whom one has mutual comfort suggesting spending time together with no particular justification or reason, no agenda or topic, and no time limit.
(There are other definitions of friend, ofc, but this one is really elegant in many ways and seems native to my system.) (And there's also something more like "close friend" which might be someone who'd actually have your back, or someone you can call out of the blue crying.)
Also obviously my definition includes that lovers/partners/spouses are *also* friends (although there's a stage where you get so fucking close you have to come up with reasons to take space 😂) And some family are friends, but not all!
Me: "…but that's not fair!" Dad: "life's not fair!" Me: "…but you could be!" What I actually wanted to say, but didn't know how, was: "okay, sure, there are constraints that I might not know or understand, but ffs listen to me, don't just shrug"
@OCallaghanDavid Nice! You might like How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (useful for all ages of relationship tbh!) It features tons of examples for how to honor someone's experience, encouraging them to know what they know, feel what they feel, want what they want.
Thread · Almost nothing is actually designed · 3 of 7 tweets
Almost nothing is actually designed.
I used to lament that things were so poorly designed. (I have the eye—I can't not see it. It's a gift and a curse.) But then I realized that it's much more accurate to say that most things weren't designed at all.
Even your computer, and software you use every day, that had dozens of designers supposedly working on it. Sure, some *elements* of the app were designed. But on every level of abstraction, nondesign crept in with hundreds of unquestioned assumptions.
Huh. Just noticed that one of my beefs with GCal is related to this. Naming a 2-person hangout that has no agenda, you need to call it Malcolm+Friend or Friend+Malcolm, when it OBVIOUSLY should automatically show up on my calendar as "Friend" & their calendar as "Malcolm" 🤦♀️
Just tried leaving a 2-person event untitled and it just put it on my calendar as "(no title)" 😑 I'm sad, because that would have been a cool easter egg! But I'm not surprised, because…
Thread · Almost nothing is actually designed · 2 of 7 tweets
As Jonny points out, it's unworkable to question the assumptions 1-by-1, conceptually, with logic & left-hemisphere. 🤔💭❓ But you *can* question many assumptions on many levels all at once, perceptually, with metaphor & right-hemisphere. 🤯🤩🧙♀️
For more on what I mean by that, check out my writing on Metaphor Design:
If you wanna join the hemisphere-pilled, here's the rabbit hole: 🕳️🐇 It's good shit—not the old backwards 1960s theory from Gazzaniga (which he himself has renounced)—and it explains a ton about cognition, perception, relation, design.
@JonnyBrdshw Great Q! So glad I followed a hunch and left the initial thread at 3 tweets to start, knowing I'd write more later.
One should meditate all the time. Take this not as an instruction but as a definition for what meditation must necessarily be in order for that to be true. [channeling @meditationstuff—I wouldn't personally call this "meditation" and I'm not at all certain it's wise to do so]
I wouldn't reify this thing as any singular pre-existing word at all, though "meditation" wouldn't be the worst choice. Any given word bakes in connotations & assumptions and people are really bad at questioning those assumptions! #MetaphorsMatter
@meditationstuff Ah true, you don't say this! My sense is that you do have a more "meditation is whatever actually solves the thing" approach than anybody else I know, though.
@meditationstuff eg this 😂
@meditationstuff > fidelitous, global-externality-sensitive relationship anarchist ↕️ > “RP is a model of relationships that’s like RA, but instead of being individualist, it’s oriented to caring for the whole systems that support the relationships and people in them.” malcolmocean.com/2020/10/relati…
@SummerForPA It's a toss-up: • Tower of Power: watching their new younger singer still asking "what is hip?" is 🔥 youtube.com/watch?v=IDksWT… • Sting & Shaggy: Jamaican in New York youtube.com/watch?v=bdneye… • Bleachers: boom bap youtube.com/watch?v=QCtkkX…
@GRITCULT Yeah to be clear I'm not saying that you have to hang out for long periods of time, the point is just that you can say "wanna hang out saturday?" and while there might be external constraints there's not intrinsically a need to book eg just a 1h block of saturday.
Wow I'm usually skeptical of using neural nets for things like this, but this actually resonates a lot with my approach 🤯
@meekaale @nickcammarata Yeah I think it's probably: computers are logical tools readily graspable by the left hemisphere that wants to grasp tools. Trying to do same thing with *that* attitude to your own psychology (✨mind hacks✨) works okay but less legible & tends to generate opponent processes.
@max_hodak Putting this tweet here for my own future self as a reminder that when @nickcammarata retweets the original @max_hodak thing it's because it did a beautiful thing for him, and he's not necessarily per se confused in the way Max is.
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery hmm seems like the obvious winner here is something that is a pain / slow to practice but hugely rewarding (extrinsically or intrinsically) to have mastered audio production skills would complement my songwriting & musicianship skills; have been leaning towards collabs instead
@lisatomic5 @_StevenFan same.energy
@lisatomic5 @_StevenFan I'm sure @selentelechia will have a ton of rich stuff to add on this front over the coming weeks+months+years.
@the_wilderless 👋👌🤙🖖🤭👈👉🤟
@JillianKeenan I'm taking this course at the moment which draws on a bunch of theoretical research and clinical practice to "yes, it takes work but it's incredibly worth it" I'm investigating ways to scale this kind of thing too. attachmentrepair.com/online-courses…
couldn't find this meme on twitter via search so re-made it with better keywords rewards of being loved 😀🟡 mortifying ordeal of being known 🔴😅👀😬🟡
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing good twete would retweet if public could repost anon on a shared alt if u want
@natural_hazard frequency analysis using eg fourier transform
@natural_hazard switching between cartesian & polar coordinate system, whether in geometry or complex numbers, can be super useful or literally rotate your XY coordinate system to some X'Y' coordinate system where the relevant parameters line up better
@natural_hazard kinda weird but I learned a number representation called decibans awhile back, which is intrinsically logarithmic. almost impossible to add, but multiplication & division become addition & subtraction!
@QiaochuYuan @meekaale he also missed some of the most important implications of Behavior: The Control of Perception, as they pertain to conflict & conflict resolution
@visakanv blue man group are a physical virtual band youtube.com/watch?v=dOLBn8…
yo @ollybot_redux your display name currently is "olly the nice bot 😊 (0/1 $)" do you have a new business that needs a first customer? would be happy to be your first dollar! I remember when I asked @dreev for my first dollar on what would later become @CompliceGoals.
Retweeted @avagadasa
the #superstraight thing is obviously an ontological battle seems many (vocal) trans folk hitch their sense of okayness on…
@ollybot_redux @dreev @CompliceGoals I got my first $ before I had any idea what the business was going to be! (This was part of @AppSumo's How To Make Your First Dollar course, which jokes a near 100% success rate by having step 1 be "ask a friend for a dollar as an initial investment/purchase in your biz")
@ollybot_redux @dreev @CompliceGoals @AppSumo And on a totally different note, I'd be down to do this with you to help you figure out what you want your business to be!
@Fullbitchschol1 trust-building
Retweeted @visakanv
this feels strange but it seems to me that exposure to a strategic actor can make someone more strategic via proxy/imitation,…
I find when I'm hanging out with certain anti-strategic people it's a lot more work to be strategic. I have to guard my purposes & priorities from their frames that undertone things like: - "let's just chill" - "nothing really matters" - "if you think too hard it'll hurt"
entitlement = where is & ought get mixed up
@visakanv glad you brought in play I think I feel WAY safer playing with people where there's a shared sense of purpose, because I feel less worried that the play will turn into some finite game I'll get stuck in (having noticed this, I might be able to care for it better myself 🤔)
Replying to @jose_goncalves_
@jose_goncalves_ @nickcammarata Core Transformation is probably one of the main things you could explore that would directly point at the "all parts want you to feel amazing, they just have very very roundabout strategies for it" experience. idk what's "best intro to CoreT" ... @mattgoldenberg, @SarahAMcManus?
Retweeted @wholemilkbitch
losing my entire gourd over this photo of a murmuration of starlings by james crombie in the irish times today https://…
@Beehtrix Nice! Looking forward to it. Seems like a fun place to hop randomly or hang out in for a bit. Might be kinda neat to be able to be like... online in the background, and if someone else comes online that has a REALLY good match, I could get a notification to jump in.
@Beehtrix I normally hate interruptions, but "someone who might be a perfect fit wants to talk to you right meow" is probably the only thing worth sending a notification about. And it could have just like, a 30s timeout for me to hit "accept" or "nvm".
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
people say this kind of shit all the time and i’ve decided i hate it. i think it is deliberately conflating a metaphysical…
"mental illness" is NOT a dysfunction in the same way an injury IS a dysfunction (this isn't exactly how I use the word "dysfunction", but I deeply agree with @nickcammarata's point here)
Tickets now up for our new April Goal-Crafting Intensives, a unique online workshop that doesn't exhaust you with hours of zoom, but instead gives you space to work on sorting out your life, plus a private channel with coaches to get unstuck or advice! complice.co/event/gci2021a…
Retweeted @megafjes
Life is digestion. Reality is not something you can approximate or hope to arrive at some day, it has to pass *through* your…
@meditationstuff I've started drafting a thing that is sort of about this, titled "not all positive-sum outcomes are win-wins / omniwin" soon to be a tweetstorm maybe roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
Retweeted @blisstweeting
Following @wrathofgnon allowed me to see my mind as a town. I am relieved to know it's a traditional town! Don't plan to…
Today I played for @utotranslucence a song I've been writing, & she said "you're like a sciencey @Jason_Mraz" and I am so here for it 🤩 He's a main stylistic inspiration, but I'm as much about numbers as words, unlike Mr. A-Z.
@meditationstuff @quotidiania @the_wilderless +1 to this recommendation at some point soon I might work on updating the nicely formatted one
@nosilverv yes, though with variable density
Retweeted @amasad
Would-be-cool-if driven development
@artpi Bump on this—@artpi can you help me troubleshoot WP Roam Block?
This is basically how I build Complice 😆
@notdetails @jongold I had my own pixel font that I would use for making the TINIEST lil text in mspaint lowercase e was just 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩
@artpi pragmatically, currently each Starlink wants to connect to a particular set of satellites in a particular zone of sky, so I don't think that would work but sounds awesome
Retweeted @xuenay
I think this is at least mostly true. The brain learns which emotional states best achieve its objectives and activates the sta…
Thread · Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive · 8 of 18 tweets
Thread of ppl tweeting enthusiastically about their experience of attending our Goal-Crafting Intensive. For the first time, we're doing sessions in April, and we've already sold a third of the tickets to returning folks before even announcing publicly!🚀 complice.co/event/gci2021a…
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Retweeted @Thinkwert
Whenever we have a bad policy, we will try a new, different policy to fix it. If that policy fails, too, then we try another…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
⚡️🤯 Huh! Just realized - Coherence Therapy is designed to create koans!
@SarahAMcManus bespoke koans 😙👌
I have an addition to this: healing from trauma also involves learning that it's okay to want what you want. (Not all wants are going to be satisfiable directly without causing others' suffering, but it's still entirely okay for the want to exist.)
here's how we solve the fact that people don't want to solve disagreement 1/
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Gonna actually tweet about #TwitterDayOff Tuesday before it's like midnight, for the first time in a few weeks. These are great, guys! Highly recommended! We've really started to make a lil ritual of it, just like I intended!
As usual, I'll probably be in this coworking room for at least part of the day, and not just because I'm shilling Complice by using its coworking rooms 😜 It's great to have a day of pomos and also seems cool to have a default productive hanging place. complice.co/room/twitter-d…
Tagging the #TwitterDayOff Tuesday crew: @QiaochuYuan @forgingtowards @metaphrand_ @AaronEstel @acidshill @meekaale @uberstuber @gwenshap @sentient_goo @visakanv @DaltonDEmery @nuanceexists @xuenay @ifIknewIdtellya @jstanotherview @RobertHaisfield @abecedarius @m_ashcroft
If you're new to this and want in, just hit reply or QT and say you're gonna do it! Then sign off twitter for the duration of Tuesday. And here are some tips that might help:
@tasshinfogleman @visakanv Ahahhhhhh you look so cuddly! I am very into this.
@tasshinfogleman @visakanv You look simultaneously more cuddly and also tougher. This is a huge win.
@visakanv freshly buzzed for a Kenya volunteer trip in highschool and multicolored for burning man 2018
vaguely musing that some autumn I want to run a 25h hackathon that goes from noon til noon, on the long weekend
what kind of sick joke is it that on so many platforms the woman is dancing flamenco/salsa and the man is dancing disco? like if there was gonna be a pair to match up... twitter gets this more right than some: 💃🕺
Retweeted @asthesparksfly
wild twitter.com/thoy/status/13…
@JohnTranstel @edsaperia I first thought of tango too but emojipedia said salsa or flamenco & I didn't know enough about any of these styles to confidently assert otherwise. A brief google image search though and I agree with your assessment!
@theorangealt @natural_hazard thanks clippy 😑 🤣🤣
Replying to @____keh
@michaelcurzi I've had a few friends use the term (4+ years ago, not since kanye) and it obviously points at something inasmuch as not everyone would identify with it, but if I'm gonna be honest it always seemed like a weird category to me but not like, weirder than INTJ, idk
@michaelcurzi re categories tho
@michaelcurzi but on the gripping hand... one of those HSP friends of mine was investigating setting up a website that was like "yelp etc reviews for HSP", which seems like a thing that might be legit useful, like "nah this device has an awful high-pitched hum"
@metaLulie sorta although it is definitely possible to overshoot this and have people be annoyed like I think mansplaining is kind of an example of that
@metaLulie ahhh—we need to distinguish between confidence in the sense of "conviction of the content of what I'm saying" and confidence in the sense of "groundedness & expansiveness & sense of self-worth etc" can overshoot the former can't overshoot the latter but faking it can be awkward
@metaLulie to be clear, still agreeing that confidence in the latter sense doesn't depend on content you can warmly+buoyantly+expansively say "yeah, I really don't know" or self-deprecatingly+contractedly say "it's definitely X"
@CruzCalvo depends on how elastic the demand is for artist merch I really don't have a good sense of that! are there X mil ppl who want to spend $Y/yr on merch, from <whoever their fav artist is> or does incredible music inspire people to buy merch who otherwise wouldn't? (/buy more)
@CruzCalvo if I had to *guess*, I'd guess it leans towards inelastic demand, actually though elastic at the tails, which matters because eg Kevin Kelly's 1000 True Fans thing kk.org/thetechnium/10…
Retweeted @acidshill
most people don't know this but vibing is a skill and you can get better at it
@Aella_Girl I feel like I must have, ever, but I can't remember any instances, and when I try I get a movie or video clip (that might have actually been _about_ the experience of racism) answered No
Retweeted @houshuang
How it started vs how it's going. #roamcult
@visakanv I'm amused imagining this being made into an actual sport, and the requirements they'd have to standardize water temperature etc, how they'd measure "completely dry" etc
@meekaale @dreev & Bee have made this a whole thing read a blog post: messymatters.com/autonomy/
@CruzCalvo if demand inelastic, whether merch or just like, streaming services make a total amount of revenue and divvy it up between artists… ...this suggests a really zero sum music scene. Possibly ironically more zero sum than pro sports, which is overtly competitive but secretly co-op
@mechanical_monk This film about David Bohm does a decent job of talking about some of the politics of all of this, though obviously from a rather biased perspective haha. (I really didn't like the narration though. Way too… omg-eternalist, ironically.) youtube.com/watch?v=aMx4cf…
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa @wminshew ugh can't like... frontload them, by any chance? just keep your hair short for 10 weeks and be good to go (I don't actually need to ask to know that obviously this isn't a thing)
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 god everything is permissible boom.
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia 💃🕺👌🚀🟩 (twitter) 🎶🎧💖♥️🔥 (phone keyboard) ...was gonna do slack too but many of my most frequent/recent emoji there are custom ones
@nosilverv TIT RATING (that's what hit me when I got to "and then it hit me". I was legit a little surprised to find an actual thread underneath but idk you do you I guess)
@nosilverv very relevant: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-precisio…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth no, be that person! more songs as part of conversation!
I'm going to die figuring it out because there's an infinity of it to figure out… and I'm not gonna stop figuring it out! So whether I die this year or next millennium I'm going to die figuring it out twitter.com/DaltonDEmery/s…
what terrible timing to be released into the world not knowing what the internet really is
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery knocking my head against the question of whether there's a way to figure out things without knocking your head against them
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania re clothing, pick a few different aesthetics (goth, hippie, biz casual, Malcolm-esque) & gently top-down brute-force yourself to come up with an outfit you like for each of those aesthetics. see which ones feel more like skills you want to learn vs onerous awful irrelevant slogs
@jonst0kes haha yeah I signed up for t-ball one summer as a kid and I walked home halfway through like "in no other sport could my water be gone by half, not because of thirst but because I had time to drink it"
Hm! Interesting points.
this is your life! right now reading this tweet is your life it's happening there is no dress rehearsal this can be kinda scary but also IT'S HAPPENING 🤩 t.co/xywZPZWfV5
@dremilyanhalt I've found the concept of "pseudomemory" helpful for this. Treat it as a memory for doing meaning-work, but not as a claim about anything that happened in the world that others ought to also remember or that necessarily implies external consequences.
Replying to @DThompsonDev
@DThompsonDev @wongmjane @TwitterSpaces because edit button would be bad as annoying as it is to not be able to fix typos edit would ruin the meaning of retweets & quote tweets
me: "...I mean, there's a neurotic imitation of that that would be awful" @uncatherio: "omg, there's a neurotic imitation of *anything* that would be awful" 🤣 "...like I'm thinking about NVC..."
if your information theory is good enough you don't need game theory anymore send tweet
@mattgoldenberg Found myself wondering if (with this technique or others) it would ever be wise to go & challenge *positive* generalizations as well, not to make them negative but to make them more refined & nuanced.
@ChanaMessinger @uncatherio it's also kinda basic meta-rationality, interestingly though I will fite anyone who says rationality & meta-rationality should be considered the same for this connotational reason if no other:
I'm imagining someone who knows how to dance "The Robot" but they can accurately imitate various specific robots, including acting like a *very coordinated* Boston Dynamics robot, in ways that still contain the weird quirks such that BD folks would lmfao to see it caricatured.
guess the context of this tweet before looking
btw, this "meta-protocol" thing that @jgreenhall is pointing at in this short video is the main thing I'm working on at the moment (he's mostly speaking of it, here, not about it, though he lists a few key desiderata & useful metaphors) youtube.com/watch?v=Y8obOM…
Replying to @forgingtowards
@forgingtowards I think we could do an improv game of this haha, similar to what happened inadvertently here: twitter.com/xdesro/status/…
@mechanical_monk @QiaochuYuan this is fucking great
@visakanv just moved to coastal British Columbia and the number of people I've heard say "you can go skiing in the morning and golfing/kayaking in the afternoon" is probably literally about half of the people I've had a substantial in-person convo with. which isn't many bc covid, but still
Retweeted @visakanv
I'm tentatively curious to attempt putting together crowdsourced list of descriptions of cities, states and nations' vision(s…
@visakanv Canada mostly identifies as somewhat better (better along which dimension depends on context) than the USA decades ago we used to identify as peacekeepery, which I recall being mentioned in school when I was a kid but haven't heard much of since
this is very fucked. these journals are probably owned by the same national (or multinational 😬) group but that does NOT excuse passing off something as local news which is clearly NOT local news get your own fucking groundhog
mirthquake
"there's this thing about zoom that's kind of like a casino, which is that there's no clock! like I have no idea how long I've been on this call!" — @Aryeh___
Yo @visakanv I'm talking with @Aryeh___ and he told me about Athene and I think you'll want to watch this as an example of something you were asking about recently (can't find tweet) of influencers actually starting serious movements. youtube.com/watch?v=EgNXJQ…
@visakanv @nibrasibn Oh shit, this is tagging as very exciting for me in relation to this meta-team meta-vision thing that I've been incubating. Stoked to see what happens as you tune into this wavelength 🚀
I hate homework I hate the idea that somebody gets to tell me what to do if they're not *even there*.
@visakanv Huh. What do you think of Alice's Restaurant? (there's a whole legendary history to this song, which I think you'd find interesting if you don't already know it) youtube.com/watch?v=-yLg_b…
@BecomingCritter speedrunning being in a cult for a few months of 2018
@QiaochuYuan I'm very interested to see how Twitter's imminent groups feature ends up working. I've been thinking for awhile that I don't want to start a new slack for ProjectX, I want a private twitter-shaped context with all of its QT'ing magic.
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
fractal tattoo buddies with this plant! (I think it's a cyclamen?)
@MasterTimBlais instead of going to... war? (would not have thought of this if I hadn't literally tweeted this half an hour ago)
Retweeted @Conaw
True success is when the conspiracy theories are about YOU twitter.com/fortelabs/stat…
@visakanv @Aryeh___ jeez I searched visakanv & alt_visa and unfortunately unlike gmail I don't think I can make a new quicksearch that's like: from:(visakanv OR vvlifts OR alt_visa OR introspectVV OR griftguru)
@pragueyerrr I'd say something like, attend to "how do you know that you're not learning enough?" like where does that story come from? why does it feel true about you? does it feel true if you hear someone else is reading fiction? +1 to jailbreaking soul from school trauma!
@QiaochuYuan somehow feels related to how I own a copy of The Master and his Emissary but Iain McGilchrist (and his publisher) own The Master and His Emissary although this is ofc yet a different thing
@QiaochuYuan oh! I think this puzzle is deeply related to this thread you wrote "fungible" being the relevant keyword the NFT is partially about a unique relationship between buyer and seller part of what's sad is money NFT seller gets goes into big fungible pile 😕
@RichDecibels I like what you're playing with here
Retweeted @RichDecibels
if you want to say "tribalism" meaning toxic ingroup/outgroup dynamics but you don't want to disrespect actual tribal cul…
thinking about something @visakanv said about whole crowds of people we'd vibe with but don't know because they aren't on twitter I found myself imagining a dinner party of people in our twitter cluster where everyone has to bring a +1 who isn't active on twitter
what makes shit "everloving"?
Thread · Searching for a better word for "PCT error"
I want a short word that means precisely "PCT Error", ie "the gap between a reference level and a perception, for any ontum at any level of the control system hierarchy." "Error" has "mistake" connotations "Desire" sounds too inherently-meaningful
"Urge" comes to mind. I like the connection with how the Coherence Therapy folks talk about how any symptom is "urgently needed" by the client in the context in which it is produced, as they're construing that context.
"Want" is also close to "PCT Error", but is confusable for the concept of the reference level itself. Maybe less so historically, when "want" often meant "lack", as in the Selkirk Grace:
But "want" still connotes umm... okay so like a "goal" is another way to point at "reference level". I guess by definition a goal is something you want to achieve. But there's a diff between a goal you feel stuck on vs one in a state of smooth flow.
Hmm, part of the issue here is that there's a relativeness. For an error at a given level in the PCT hierarchy, the level above is the "why", and the level below is the "how".
@pjeby explores calling this "energy" instead, but that has a bunch of other connotations ranging from the idea that it should be conserved to the thing hippies mean when they talk about somebody's energy. Plus sometimes it's stuck; more like opposing forces than energy.
Force... Robert Fritz's term "creative tension" is almost exactly pointing at the right thing, but first of all it's too LONG. Oh! Second of all, his concept of "oscillating tension" approximately refers to one mode of two PCT Errors being in conflict.
That suggests that "tension" could itself be the word. There's something there! Though ofc connotes muscle tension, stress, etc. There is indeed a kind of pulling. And it highlights how oscillating tension is in some sense still towardsness, not awayness
I'm thinking that a word building on "tension" could be the way to go. We also already have "intention" & "attention" which are very relevant. "Intention" is actually nearly literally the thing! But again, too many connotations or something.
Huh, I'm thinking about something I've been playing with recently, inspired by @meditationstuff's protocol... which is reframing my intentions to "inclinations" - "incline towards" I even added an experimental element to the Complice UI for my own account:
Though "inclinations" is not quite right either, maybe. The obvious downhillness of doing what your control systems intend is cybernetic and loopy, not like actual gravitation which just goes until it stops and doesn't actually fight opposition. malcolmocean.com/2016/06/you-fl…
me rn
To be free is not to have an absence of constraints. To be free is to have the right constraints.
Protip: instead of asking a couple "so how did you meet?" which has a boring (& sometimes awkward/embarrassed) answer if it's like "he swiped right", instead ask: "so what drew you guys to each other?" Can still get meet-cute if relevant, but otherwise gets straight to the ♥️!
Me & @Morphenius having an energetic conversation about nowness, digital spontaneity, task lists & taking the Complice philosophy even further featuring mentions of @QiaochuYuan & @Aryeh___ youtu.be/wlSMDdFkWMc
This was a conversation that we were recording for no particular reason, and is in some ways one of the first such things posted to my youtube channel. This itself is part of the same spontaneity energy! Closest other thing so far probably this:
Here's a related thread, re letting go of browser tabs etc
Also here's the convo I'm talking about at the start of the video clip about @QiaochuYuan and I talking about stuff then spontaneously going to watch a video:
New avatar that actually looks like a real face but is still purple 💜
Slightly edited from a photo of me & @SarahAMcManus at burning man 👇😍
I love love love how I'm smiling in this new one. So alive! 🤩 I went to this trippy sparkly creepy one to get away from the canned too-professional smile in my previous one:
this came up inadvertently in a search and I briefly thought it said "sobervisor" which is ALSO a great word & I'm sure you can infer exactly what it would be
meaningful metrics for writing 🥲 number of people who've cried while reading your posts 🤯 number of times someone has said to a friend/colleague/spouse "omg you need to read this" ✂️ number of people who've made a major life decision as a result of reading a post what else?
sax appeal twitter.com/leopfollowme/s…
Welp now I have permanent funk face. 5 mins into this: @gracekellymusic - GO TiME Brooklyn 2 - Recorded Live in Studio with special Guest @leopfollowme youtube.com/watch?v=MxavnZ…
Thread · Goal-Crafting Intensive meta-thread of threads · 12 of 16 tweets
Goal-Crafting Intensive meta-thread! Thread to be ongoingly updated with all of the twitter threads I write related to our epic online GCI workshops we've run for years, around New Year's & at other times. complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
One of the first threads I did talking about the GCI framework:
This thread has a great summary of the basic structure of the workshop:
One of the main confusions people have about "goals" is the idea that you should feel bad if you have them. This & related confusions are cleared up in this 🔥 thread:
Speaking of which, what even is a goal? Here's the definition we use: (this tweet just below is not really a thread, but contextualizes the following thread)
And here's a thread that goes into depth about what happens when you remove one of those key ingredients, inspired by people demonstrating what happens to cookies when you change the recipe:
Meanwhile, there are a few components you *don't* need in order to have a goal, as far as we're concerned. (this tweet is actually from the systems-vs-goals thread already linked, but contextualizes the following thread)
And this thread takes each of these: 📅due date #⃣numerical metric 🏁state of finality and for each one, asks these questions: • why do we think we need this? • how can it mess you up? • when might you want it anyway?
Here's another thread expanding the concept of goal (is goal even the best word? what else might we call them?) which wasn't written to point people at our workshops but is definitely relevant:
Here's a thread contrasting GCI with a similar event @fortelabs runs:
Relatedly, a thread about how easy it is to not complete courses you sign up for, that reflects on how that implicitly went into the design of GCI, having it be all at once so you either go or don't, and with time to work while there rather than homework.
Anyway, one of the unique things about GCI is that you get DEEP coaching via chat from multiple coaches at once. This isn't just protips: we can untangle major internal conflicts & help you find your learning edge.
Replying to @generaldynamism
Retweeted @aaronzlewis
metaphors can only teach us new things because they’re not 100% accurate. meaning leaks out through all the subtle differe…
@alt_tatsu just came across this old tweet & thought you'd appreciate it 😂
@mattgoldenberg The koan of ethical fractal self-governance:
Retweeted @Prigoose
blogging to a small audience: priyaghose.io/2021-02-24-why…
n̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ it me
@anthilemoon I talk in this 13min video about how I've given up treating email as a thing to be on top of and I just treat it as a stream of things floating by. Obviously only possible for people in some life situations / roles, but you'd be surprised!
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
the other day i looked up the etymologies of every word i could think of that meant "male (or gender-neutral) magic-user"…
@danhines09 @CompliceGoals I recommend between 3-6 to start. Re condensing all into one goal, this blog post talks about one reason it can be important to tease apart different dimensions. blog.complice.co/post/141528302…
@danhines09 Yeah Complice maxes out at 10 active goals, for that exact reason 😆👐 And honestly except for rare situations, more than 7 is usually too many—one or two start falling by the wayside.
I feel seen 🥰
I had a super clever idea for putting roam in an iframe then using a roam/js script to enable using window.postMessage etc… 🤠 …but it looks like roam iframes are sameorigin now 😞 Any way around that? / @conaw + @thepericulum, help a brotha out? this is gonna be sick.
@houshuang @Conaw @thepericulum Yes 😜
Thread · Prototyping Roam in an iframe past X-Frame-Options
@Conaw @thepericulum Hmm... looking here, it seems it's sort of a suggestion to the browser, so I could at least experiment with this by using a browser extension to ignore X-Frame-Options for roamresearch.com... developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…
@Conaw @thepericulum Seems the main security reason is clickjacking, and in principle if there were other domains that were trusted, they could perhaps be whitelisted by not sending the X-Frame-Options header to requests from those domains... Could maybe also just like, disable settings when framed.
@Conaw @thepericulum do be do be do (this is with a browser extension (this one chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… though I loaded it from source not from the store, and am intending to narrow domains it runs on))
@Conaw @thepericulum I can't find the docs for the frontend API though. I want to take the next obvious step and have that "alert" make a new block instead.
@Conaw @thepericulum ahhh well I couldn't find it in the help DBs I looked in (several!) but I just found the window.roamAlphaAPI object and realized it has a createBlock method
@Conaw @thepericulum (Currently I have to click login every time I reload the frame, and since I only have google auth, not password, this probably means a whole nother layer of insecurity required by this chrome extension I'm using. But hey, we're prototyping here.)
@Conaw @thepericulum OH, YEAAHH!
Retweeted @visakanv
it's really funny how true it is that if you make a mistake when improvising musically, repeating the mistake makes it sound…
@visakanv dude that was so smooth
What great timing to have incidentally discovered this hilarious video of Jordan Peterson at a time when he's trending on twitter! If you haven't see this, this is what today's trend is for. This is it. Nevermind the book or whatever other news it is. youtube.com/watch?v=YXayBG…
@juliagalef This is sort of conversational styles, but inasmuch as thinking is a kind of internal conversation, I think it counts. Source: me. malcolmocean.com/2016/05/honing…
@cwage been saying this for years
@visakanv Guessing at least 2 people will be late because it's a couple hours after the daylight savings time change. eg you say 6h and I think "ah indeed, 11pm+6h = 5am my time" but no! 11pm+6h = 6am on this particular day. ofc I won't be there either way because it's before dawn lol
Retweeted @scritmusic_
POV: you're an Ed Sheeran fan and you don't understand what an album is
@malcolmtorino hey look, another Malcolm who's into brain hemispheres! Have you read Iain McGilchrist's book? It's a really good upgrade to that. (I'm also into connection, consciousness, btc) I have many threads on it:
satisficer gf optimizer bf
Started to tweet that I was looking for a fascinating paper about integrity that I read a few years ago, but then realized that while I'd searched various roam & slack histories, I hadn't searched twitter history yet, and lo! Stoked to revisit this now:
@mchapiro Carbon is legit kinda cool. Since your first name is ultra common, your last name is playing a pretty key role, and people may even end up shortening your whole name to it. I considered "Chapman" but that's taken by @Meaningness since he *also* has a common first name.
@mchapiro @Meaningness A few other options from searching onelook for chap* chapbook chapeau chapel chaplain chapter
Retweeted @nickcammarata
"There is no evidence to support the assertion that there is 'some debate' .. according to medical experts" in the top t…
@mchapiro @Meaningness Realizing that your shtick is carbonpunk, I'm thinking just go all-in with that and pick a word starting in carb* that's spellable and has the right feel. Carbide is pretty cool too honestly. hmm... Michael Carbene ~ methyl carbene something to play w onelook.com/?w=carb*&scwo=…
@visakanv I almost never watch shows ever (part of being a kid who grew up without a TV maybe) but @SarahAMcManus and I recently watched WandaVision and it was pretty cool. (Midnight Gospel last year was also AMAZING)
@iamdinakar @basakbuilds Oh cool! Nice price point. Seems to me like the metaphor you want is something like "consignment store for product domains". And then you could get folks like me & @basakbuilds & other @IndieHackers or @megamaker folks who hoard domains to list theirs there too for sale.
@nickcammarata ✋ this is my dharma 👇
you: rawdogging the egregore 🤠 me: using a userstyle so I see one tweet at once and get to spaciously behold it and discern whether I want to scroll further 🧐
(this is the userstyle: gist.github.com/malcolmocean/1… - get Stylus extension then import it)
@pragueyerrr wow, yeah, I have a hard time even imagining what this would be like ❣️
nice abstraction you've got there... ...would be a shame if something were to happen to it...
Retweeted @uncatherio
“justify / excuse” is parallel to “cling / flinch”
Retweeted @nerdposterino
For me the magic moment was when I first realized that everything, absolutely everything, has the touch of humanity on i…
@760mph @RoamResearch I think this could actually be helpful to productivity, kinda like this:
@yogacid @dthorson @JasnaSeishin looks like there's a google form link here forms.gle/p7cqj1jjPL7T2X… on this page about the summer intensive: notion.so/Willow-Summer-…
@itsarnavb ikr this tweet emerged from me temporarily not having that userstyle on and being like 😲😳😬 and "rawdogging the egregore" just came to mind as a phrase to describe having all of these unrelated tweets jampacked next to each other
@DRMacIver yeah though evbio folks have argued the opposite kinda wrt mate selection (since ♂️ can satisfice w many diff mates)
Replying to @magghu
@magghu care differently?
Replying to @fmd4cp
@fmd4cp @QiaochuYuan I feel like the way you did do it, with the separate tweet and reveal of your own experience of "nerve" is better than any other version I can imagine.
Replying to @hjarche
@hjarche @csageland @dthorson @LauBenedict @RSFrame @Bortseb @biancawylie It's *near* Toronto but it's rural, in a county with under a hundred active cases (and only a thousand total ever). [Northumberland - source: app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo…] And it starts sometime like July, by which time most Canadians will hopefully be vaccinated anyway.
I identify as a person who doesn't identify as anything
God: *slaps roof of celestial sphere* (it breaks) God: "This bad boy can fit so many infinities in it!" (by @SarahAMcManus)
@pragueyerrr I also listened to this album when it first came out, and then years later (maybe 2016?) found a totally different relationship with the song! 👇
@pragueyerrr I won't quote it directly but I just checked out the song on wikipedia and it sounds like Mraz had both self-love & love-towards-humanity in mind when he wrote it! Disguised as a relationship song so it could top the charts 😉
@the_wilderless my grandfather
@natural_hazard supposedly Ken Wilber lived alone for a number of years after his wife died and in that time he read a ton of books and did a ton of introspection and that's when he synthesized Integral Theory into being and it's been speculated that he couldn't have done that if not alone
@natural_hazard meanwhile, I spent a bunch of last year staring at a seemingly impossible trust puzzle among the people I was with and synthesizing everything I could into a solution to that puzzle, and I definitely could not have done *that* on my own
@CruzCalvo This and books, yep. YouTube or SoundCloud or TikTok could kinda become this if they wanted, but they seem to not want. Hard to do from scratch ofc because metcalfe's law. Maybe @Beehtrix will get to it sooner or later! Or @juanlanteri!
it me I check twitter notifications like once a week (because otherwise I'd check them every hour)
@MasterTimBlais used to kinda have a thing for Jared Leto
I want to co-write a song called "I Thought Love Meant" that's got a few verses each with a different perspective on the narrow or impossible concepts of love that people learned from their parents, movies, love songs, etc. Who wants to contribute? (ideas or whole verses)
broke: using synonyms to avoid sounding repetitive woke: using synonyms so your tweets have more surface area when you go to search for them later
@nosilverv I think I tweeted once before but can't find it... something about how you can form a strategic alliance with someone who's competent but has orthogonal values (up to a limit of both factors) but a "good" "incompetent" person is just a cost to the system
Tagging @pragueyerrr @AskYatharth @nibrasibn @QiaochuYuan @SeanMombo @visakanv... tryna think of the other musicians & poets I know...
@BecomingCritter I can absolutely write workable songs rhyming complex 5-syllable words. I do it all the time 😜
Retweeted @adamjensenn
I love how Dan Brown presents this informal case study on resolving (or ruling out) disorganized attachment first before d…
Thread · Receiving book recommendations without queuing up obligations
Friend sent me a book reco. I replied: > I'm not really doing "intending to do stuff nebulously in the future" atm & I don't think it's high priority for right now > but go ahead & send me thoughts you think I'd find inspiring > maybe that will prompt me to read it, maybe not! 🧵
This is part of my new campaign to uninstall the concept of homework from my consciousness and learn a new nowness & self-compass based way of relating to motivation.
Today I was the one sending a friend a book reco! And she said > noticing I don’t have a way for an incoming rec like this to cause me to read a thing! > like this is “thanks for the rec” but noting I don’t have an API for handling it, sort of
And I want to share my replies here because they also really illustrate this new way of relating to things. > mm! loving your reveal! relatedly one thing I've been trying to do is not allow things to accidentally queue up (then I told her my story from the first tweet)
> So part of my thinking here (& part of why I immediately attached the PDF) was that similar to how one does sometimes with linked articles, tweets, etc, that you might just be in the mood to look at it right now, and if so I wanted that to be as smooth as possible!
> A different thing I would happily do with you is schedule a call (or spontaneously have a call) where we read it at the same time and comment on it—it's been years since I read it and I'd love to revisit it with a friend!
> On a fairly different note, some friends and I have been experimenting with sharing our email-to-kindle email addresses with each other so that we can directly send books to each others' devices! (Calibre spoofs addresses so you can all use the same fake trusted send-email)
Oh I realized this video of mine is also essentially on this same topic of nowness. (@visakanv do you to much linking to your videos on twitter? or... hm. how to cross the streams safely...)
Retweeted @webdevMason
Never apologize for wanting things. An obsessive wanting is inseparable from the striving integral to the grand human proj…
@webdevMason 🙌🙌🙌
Here's a thread giving this idea a way more rigorous treatment than I was giving it—which it deserves! twitter.com/s_r_constantin…
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin Whoa cool you gave gears to this idea:
@forshaper @s_r_constantin @DavidDeutschOxf talks about the evolutionary reason for this, which is about memetic evolution and is way more compelling than the biological evolution explanation. = conformism is one of two ways to stabilize culture at all in The Beginning of Infinity amzn.to/3vsk9CF
We've almost sold out the April 11th session of the Goal-Crafting Intensive, but still have lots of tickets available for the April 10th session. Will probably sell out too though sometime in the next few weeks! 5h of live coaching + pay-what-you-want! 🔥 complice.co/event/gci2021a…
I'm looking forward to watching the emergence of communities that seriously investigate things that are dismissed by mainstream, without rejecting all of mainstream science, and while also rejecting what's bunk about bad explanations used by woosters or alternative medicine ppl.
Yes, no homework for the GCI!😤 (there are pre-event exercises if you want but they are 100% optional. the event is designed so you can work through everything during the session!) twitter.com/theorangealt/s…
@theorangealt yessss
Re "nothing depends on your willpower" see also @AbhayPrasanna describing it as an "effortless container" that helped him bootstrap more effortless containers! x.com/AbhayPrasanna/…
(wasn't on twitter last night to announce but btw guys it's a #TwitterDayOff today) (sent this without actually "going on twitter")
I want a thing where a zoom room has a particular same virtual background that gets applied to everyone, so that we can really feel like we're a specific context together that's a different context from all the *other* zoom rooms.
This site/twitterbot auto-tracks Stripe-sync'd revenue from IndieHackers, so Complice tops the list every time we run the GCI workshops because suddenly the apparent revenue doubles for a couple weeks even though it's a completely different stream and not consistent. 😂
Retweeted @azlenelza
What if text squished as you scroll—staying visible rather than lurking off-screen? Not only does this let you gauge the "p…
@azlenelza ahhhh this is so cool I've also reflected on this being missing from digital reading experience, and have mused briefly about having an e-reader device with 2-3 foldable screens that can ~bookmark & flip between them to cross-reference diff books or within book.
@azlenelza @utotranslucence this is relevant to @marginaliaclub (I'm gonna keep tagging such stuff until/unless you tell me to stop, since it'll be a useful reference to myself if I later want notes on building better digital reading experiences.)
@mattgoldenberg Yeah I'm down! I have a few half-finished threads that are chilling on intertwingled.blog because I had to go before I had the chance to tweet them.
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia hmmmm something about wholeness but maybe also something more than that? Gall's Law comes to mind.
@wpaszewska @RichDecibels this sounds entirely right to me
@RichDecibels I think profoundly The power dynamics between adult & child map onto many other power-over dynamics such as race & gender. Without going into detail, I present for your examination these two words and how they are used from one adult to another: "boy" "girl"
@nickcammarata Argument from exploitation, which I present here in its basic form absent affordances: if you are unwell you can't work for the man if you are extremely well you WON'T work for the man Game A hierarchies necessitate limited wellness. Only during transition does this seem weird.
@GHenrickson yes but there are constraints on what you get to choose, and you don't get to know what they are directly but you can gently find out and relax them, but if you disrespect them then they will tighten
Replying to @alt_visa
@michaelcurzi holopolitical I think "geo" is trying to point at "politics of the WHOLE world; unlike nat'l politics, there's no other" & "omni" has "every/all" vibe but not "whole" however! finite earth very different shape than universe, so "geo" appropriate unless there's multiple planets
@startuployalist Yeah! Though it could be ofc something like a beach or forest or whatever. Or an image of a room like a meditation hall or a comfy lounge.
@michaelcurzi (or like, if there were a moon base, the politics of the relation between the moon base and the earth wouldn't quite be geopolitics (it'd be more like politics between colony & home, until self-sufficient). but the ISS still is part of the geo, basically)
@maltybegray after pandemic let's hang out in person and practice all these 😉🔥💞🗨️
@piva_jonas @nickcammarata I think he meant "as a civilization, we are good at producing & distributing exogenous Vitamin C"
@nickcammarata This seems like serious non-central fallacy on the concept of "addiction", effectively redefining it without bothering to define it. A few people have tried to point at the connotations you're eliding... I would say maybe something about "compulsive behavior" which VitC lacks.
@meekaale Big Dharma
me: does a hummingbird hum? what makes a sound a hum? me a few minutes later: okay, we've got "ahh", "mmm", "nnn", "ohh" & ukulele... definitely some harmonics blocked by the mouth-closed ones. neat to see how "ahh" & "ohh" differ too.
Retweeted @uncatherio
Thanks all who shared cather.io/dateme 😁 I'm excited to see a LOT of interest in others doing similar! If you make…
@aspiringpeasant @selentelechia I think literally this is mostly because of how hard it is to add a room to your house by accident, by comparison.
@meekaale Somehow this condensation made me think you were talking about finding the aforementioned toddler's parents 😂
Retweeted @AbhayPrasanna
Turn towards whatever comes up, without turning away from yourself.
Replying to @abhayance
Replying to @nerdposterino
@nerdposterino funny 420 story?
@magicianbrain have a ships in the night tryst with @umbersorrow found a dynasty with @joyurge go on a crime spree with @nosilverv
It's an unfortunate loop ofc that being "almost sold out" made the April 11th session sell out even faster. It's indeed now sold out until I find another couple coaches who are available (have just asked @captain_mrs & @Aryeh___ 🔥) Still tix for Apr10, tho they're going too.
@utotranslucence take my cup out of the waterfall of their anger when my cup is full trust my own sense & don't try to take in more than I need or can handle once I take my cup out, then I can be present & let their anger flow as much as *they* need it to, for them without myself spilling over
Retweeted @nerdposterino
@clarissaramosof two main things come to mind immediately: 1. nominally in charge does not mean actually in charge; no…
what name do you have weird associations with? for some unknown reason, I seem to be prejudiced against the name "Eliot" but the 3 El(l)iot(t)s who have recently come into my life and/or awareness at all... all seem pretty cool! so I am maybe gonna update on that one soon!
used to have a judgment against the name "Trevor" because the only Trevor I knew of was the ultra-derpy little brother of an already-uncool kid in my town but that seems to have vanished some years ago, probably when I sang with @trevorhorman in @MinorsACappella
@pervexists69 @acidshill this has been me sometimes it relates to this dating profile thing I need enough respect from the median person that they'll leave me alone, but aside from that I mostly want to sometimes blow a few peoples' minds
Retweeted @_StevenFan
Which tweet will be etched on your tombstone?
@mechanical_monk @TurboRational he looks kinda like recent Johnny Depp
@tsvibt @utotranslucence so far in my experience, they can't tell—it's an internal move I'm still listening but I've recognized that I have all the feedback I can usefully integrate & use so now I'm listening for their sake and I don't feel waterboarded anymore, but present & attentive
@JimmyRis hmmmmmm (this is the above thing, thru the thing)
training is only for skills don't try to train inclinations inclinations need awareness of why you'd want to plus integration of every reason that would stop you, which are usually unconscious and if you fight them they'll win sooner or later
@magicianbrain could RT it or even QT it 10×
@__justplaying @captain_mrs @Aryeh___ I can reach out if we open more slots for april 11!
@karmacustodian how well can you beatbox?
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
As a child, I'd marvel at the scars on my grandfather's hand—the stories they must tell! Today, my own scars. Oh yeah..…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth idk if exactly "best FEMME" but it seemed to me that the Oracle from The Matrix would warrant a mention
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth Curious about the sense in which "only enough food or water for less than half of the people" seems like a problem that can be solved via social coordination. It's kind of the quintessential zero-sum resource—can't spend energy twice. Though yeah, defense ≠ offense.
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth Okay, I think I get what you're saying. And like, energy spent fighting over food isn't energy spent actually growing more, so that runs out anyway, so might as well *mostly* invest in self-sustainability, plus a bit of defense?
@yashkaf best kind of fame and also the one I'm aiming for insofar as I'm aiming for fame my grandfather was well known in the town I grew up in and to some extent the surrounding county... hm.
@Flamegeyser @meditationstuff likewise!
@meditationstuff I present: Westley from The Princess Bride
the way you deal with constraints is the person you end up becoming 👋@utotranslucence 🎤 ⏬ 🕳️
Thread · Reframing final-year schoolwork as bureaucratic paperwork
@QiaochuYuan for another month, seems worth it but accept the meaninglessness and reframe all remaining schoolwork as irrelevant paperwork you need to file so the bureaucracy will hand over your degree and don't worry about getting good grades just do the minimum you need to to pass
@QiaochuYuan I did this in my last year of school (also in part because the schoolwork seemed meaningless compared to my company, complice.co) and it was profoundly clarifying the important thing I had to unhook was the idea that my profs' opinions mattered to anything except 🎓
@QiaochuYuan getting really clear that those grades were not a reflection of my intelligence, or my willpower, or my overall competence, or anything like that. I wasn't there to be assessed. they just needed to see that I could complete the paperwork. I did, so I got the grad certificate.
@QiaochuYuan worth also tracking that that paper can be useful for things other than getting future jobs—where again, there are usually better ways to prove your competence to those whose respect you'd care to earn such as immigration that was one motivator for me
@QiaochuYuan If you want to read more of my story of satisficing on schoolwork, I've written about it here. This story mostly takes place a year before the further reframe to "this is just paperwork". It includes the time I never even started a term project worth 25%. roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@pragueyerrr wrap self up in blanket ask ppl close to me to tell me they love me (sometimes I call my mom for that) (@utotranslucence sent me a lovely voice memo once that I listened to 10×) gently remind myself that this mood won't last forever but I can let it last as long as it needs to
Retweeted @lisatomic5
there's a huge gap btw having concrete tasks given to you to complete (school, entry level work), and coming up with concre…
the first 25 seconds of this are a cool illustration of reharmonization how the same notes/melody sound very different depending on the chords underneath
@michaelcurzi @nosilverv guessing it's this post have included the images themselves below reddit.com/r/TheMindIllum…
.@SarahAMcManus: I want a recipe called "Minced Oaths"
when it's time your body will remember
Me, trying a calzone for the first time: "it's like someone snuck a pizza... into a pierogi!" 🤩 two minutes later: "wait this is just a giant gourmet pizza pop" 🤔
@tasshinfogleman most psychoactive book would probably be one of the Perceptual Control Theory ones did a mind experiment as part of reading Behavior: The Control of Perception that involved inhibiting the layer of my perceptual hierarchy that thingifies the world, and it was super trippy!
@visakanv @nbouscal if it invalidates your frame switch to agoraphobia 😅 Agoraphobe Destroys Local City Square ...read no headline ever.
@visakanv @nbouscal hmm… seems like a motte-bailey thing in both directions… battles over how words are used also noteworthy that a diagnosis of arachnophobia (vs "rational fear of spiders") begins when it bothers the *patient* enough *themselves* that they seek therapy. not so for "homophobia"
@utotranslucence @xuenay I know some folks who've done intentional combining of BioEmotive with song/mantra-writing to connect with the new integrated space they get to and then having a group of the person's friends sing that mantra to & with them, and making a recording of it that they can listen to.
@Aella_Girl As a fellow self-employed person, I feel you. It's huge. Can see why people seek out loopholes. CRA (=🇨🇦IRS) finally started wanting quarterly instalments from me though, so that'll be the end of the single lump sum, which will probably make budgeting more clear for me too.
@Aella_Girl @Crimsonak1 I don't want to disagree with the feeling here. Having said that: It does seems relevant to point out that the someone taking it from you is the same one that gets to mandate that the money has value in the first place and that you as a physical being = owner of this bank acct.
@Aella_Girl @Crimsonak1 Which is not to say that it's right/fair/whatever for them to take it! But more trying to point at like, the issue being a deeper part of the whole situation, rather than being about this particular moment when you have to write this check. That's baked into the whole context.
@Aella_Girl @Crimsonak1 @ben_r_hoffman has a great piece on this where he constructs a fictional conceptual economy called MobsterBucks which is almost entirely equivalent to the national situation, and likewise enforced through violence. benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-is-a-war/
@tasshinfogleman Omg amazing, can you find out where they got them? I'm in need of trunks.
@Aella_Girl @Crimsonak1 @ben_r_hoffman And it's fucked up that there's no better system that you could opt into instead. (including other countries, which largely work mostly the same—and moving is hardly as easy as people make it seem when they're saying "well then move") Will we get there?
Replying to @Crimsonak1
@Crimsonak1 @Aella_Girl @ben_r_hoffman Ummm... "you can just move, no force" is not "no force". It's "no force if you move" which is "you are forced to comply or forced to move". Forcing someone to move is a big deal! And (unlike some countries) USA will tax you anywhere in the world unless you give up citizenship.
@Aella_Girl @Crimsonak1 Oh wait, my "the someone taking it from you is the same one that gets to mandate that the money has value in the first place" is slightly but significantly incorrect—California is legit a different entity than the USA!
Are "different" and "distinctly different"…
@karmacustodian I like that you went for it! Your sense of rhythm & groove was pretty solid. As you noted, you could use more like, solid kick drum sounds or something. I've been beatboxing for more than half my life and it's a lot of fun!
Replying to @sheherenow_
@jongold @utotranslucence @xuenay oh shit! symbolic probably of lots of other ways in which you now had way less attention from your parents than you used to. didn't occur to them that that comforter might be needed to *comfort* you, in that very situation of their focus on your brother!
@__justplaying @captain_mrs @Aryeh___ just opened up a few more, betting on some likely confirmations :) (if these disappear before you have the chance to get one, DM me and I'll sort you out) complice.co/event/gci2021a…
@visakanv damn, nice. a shorter intro to reharmonization than this (also lovely) video youtube.com/watch?v=eRkgK4…
@MasterTimBlais @deepfates @nickcammarata show replies 😂
@meekaale gdi I got this notification days later (I don't check twitter notifs often) and I was like WHAT fucking dunnit again 😅
@GHenrickson yeah, all that good stuff :)
Replying to @BenMillford
@BenMillford Hmmm... the ISS was definitely designed! Moreso than most things, where even if the exterior was designed, the interior still wasn't, or even if all the parts were designed, their interfaces weren't, etc etc. So many constraints w ISS, no choice but to design almost all of it.
@natural_hazard updates? (a bonus of rarely checking my twitter notifs is by the time I saw this reply it'd been 3 days!)
@norman_tran I would say so! At least one of our coaches is also an ADHD specialist. Not sure what specific concerns you have but it's definitely not designed to create some rigid top-down system you've got no chance of ever following. Much more improvisational and personal.
@norman_tran ...that's re the content; re the event itself: We've got 8 pomodoros, and I'll be coming on every break to check in and help you get recentered for what's next. Plus you can say in your coaching channel at any time if you get distracted! And we can help you reorient 😊
Retweeted @samuelbars
Signed for the Goal-Crafting Intensive, April 11th. Malcolm is one of the finest "productivity" thinkers that entered my fi…
@mchapiro @Meaningness yeah then the issue would just be people misspelling it Carbine (and, if Carbyne is actually pronounced with different vowels, mispronouncing Carbyne so people spell it Carbine—this instability of names under text→speech→text is a thing to watch out for with names)
@tato_tweets > Almost all breakdown in communication I've witnessed has been due to […] Really? Surprised. Almost all breakdown I've seen seems due to different frames that make that-which-is-obviously-true-to-me seem absurd or false to you. And Crocker's Rule can exacerbate that problem.
@tato_tweets I think that, similarly to Chatham House Rule, doing Crocker's Rule all the time is not a very good idea. In practice, people DO need to choose when to communicate tactfully to avoid misunderstanding. Best not to pretend otherwise.
@metaLulie @ElodesNL @adamjensenn muaha I love the purple clothes hangers
@metaLulie @ElodesNL @adamjensenn also yeeeeaah Team Purple 💜🟣🟪
@inersphobia @DaltonDEmery sorta but PDCA (plan-do-check-adjust I assume) seems to be missing the part where you seriously figure out what's worth developing plans for in the first place! (could call that planning, but easy to forget since it's hardly a mainstream thing to do!)
@the_wilderless @natural_hazard This is perhaps the only time ever in the history of ever that I have been glad to be called Malcolm in the Middle. (I think I was maybe ever called this while sandwiched between two lovers but I still wasn't glad to hear it whereas here it was elegant & clever)
@adamjensenn "I wear my sunglasses on twitter, so I can so I can, not bother to turn on the dark theme"
@meekaale buzz has an intrinsic back & forth to it though
Replying to @ChasingMyself
@ChasingMyself haha fun answer although it seems to me that tanha is more about one's relationship with the error than about the error itself... a meta-error?
Retweeted @Heathermagic
@CompliceGoals is an the only app out there that has cracked the code to intuitive, and well-being enhancing goal achieve…
@natural_hazard ish, though the reality is that most of the things I was thinking about weren't really at this scale I still sometimes do it for fun or if I need to multiply & divide a bunch of really huge numbers without messing up the orders of magnitude.
Just scrolled through 2 weeks of unread notifications. (I avoid compulsively checking them by hiding the unread count on the sidebar and in the title) Some good stuff in there. 2 weeks is way too long though haha. I aim for 1-2×/week. Now to digest these:
@QiaochuYuan @ElodesNL @aaronzlewis Spreeder! (I think something similar could be done for freewriting, where you only see like the last line you've typed and everything else is hidden, forcing stream of consciousness with no review) twitter.com/MrTKruse/statu…
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania oooooooh it makes me think of "delta" though which... has some redeeming qualities although I think there are other issue with it "diff"... hm. both of these highlight something important about this puzzle, which is that one doesn't see the full structure of the PCT error
@pragueyerrr curious how this has been playing out for you 🥰
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania photo sampler of Malcolm style (bottom left colors don't work; it's the only one that wasn't an intentional combo, but it serves to illustrate that this is just how I dress, not some sort of special costume)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@quotidiania photo sampler of Malcolm style (bottom left colors don't work; it's the only one that wasn't an intentiona…
@chudgr @AskYatharth @captain_mrs totally, IFS done well seems fine
@ElodesNL twice I think, both in SF was hilarious & amazing made for an excellent date
Retweeted @avagadasa
The two g̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ political parties: - un-self-aware about being triggered and traumatized and so tries by default to m…
Thread · Would there still be taxes in eutopia? · 8 of 10 tweets
"would there still be taxes in eutopia?" I've been pondering this question sometimes, in light of the famous quote: "’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes" My hunch is "yes in some sense but they'd look very different."
That quote about death & taxes seems to express a deeper systems truth: • all things must end • all things, while they maintain, must maintain an environment And these would continue to be true in eutopia.
Parts must maintain the order within the wholes they are part of, for the parts to continue to survive & thrive. Taxes are a super crude way to do that, especially when the systems that are in charge of figuring out how to use the resources are bad at sensemaking & dialogue.
But insofar as for various reasons whole-managers are needed (which, beyond coordination problems, are often for interfacing with that-which-is-outside-a-given-whole—this is why we have a self, and why burning man needs an org) they need support of various kinds.
Interestingly, companies work kind of the opposite of this: the employees need to do work to support the whole (which is the taxes) but then money flows from the whole to the parts. Likewise with eating food & breathing air, and it getting distributed to every organ & cell.
Then we get into ~game theory~ because ofc there's such a thing as a person who drives on roads but pays no taxes, or an employee who collects a salary but does no work (or sabotages). freeloading is a thing. but it's only a good deal in meh circumstances
(found the above quoted tweet while searching for the one quoted below! 🙃) What I'm trying to say that freeloading is a way to exploit a system you can't find a win-win with. But WAY better is possible.
Not sure what else to say rn, but here's a related thread. Will preface with @diviacaroline's flip: “You might have captured some of it, but don’t forget that a lot of wealth you created is out there in the world, benefitting people who aren’t you.”
@patconnolly dude it's been so long!
@aaronzlewis there's a brilliant bit by Peter Senge, where he talks about speaking at a conference at the US Congress Hall (?), and says ~"our country was built on dialogue. this was a room with acoustics where where 50 people could easily have a conversation in a time before amplification"
@aaronzlewis this is, I believe, from the introduction to the *paperback* edition of The Fifth Discipline; I've been unable to find the text online and since I moved a few months ago I can't run and grab the actual paper copy. could message one of the people in the library I moved out of tho
@QiaochuYuan huh, say more? does it seem to you like it's generally more vital to be weird now than it was 2 years ago?
@QiaochuYuan or something more like, readiness to do shit to stay safe from covid even if people think it's weird?
@theorangealt > I know that there’s no chance I will like a song unless I have listened to it ten times. WHAAAAAAT this is so utterly unlike my experience. I would never listen to a song 10 times (deliberately) if I didn't love it the first time. this had me by 11secs youtube.com/watch?v=bE3jzM…
Replying to @magghu
@magghu differently however allows you to simultaneously care a lot while also feeling ease & spaciousness no intrinsic reason why those have to contradict each other feel into what that might be like, & play with it (I know this is like a week late, uhh... 😅)
@ChanaMessinger technically I *model* myself as someone who doesn't identify with anything, because if I identified with something then it would produce a paradox 🙃
@quotidiania relates to this tweet I happened to come across although this whole thing is very slippery for a bunch of reasons, hmm
@DanielTabakman Beautiful stuff man 🙏
@spilendalaust @contemplatonist @NathanpmYoung I think it's like that, yeah. It's like how you've got no choice but to figure out how to get along with *yourself*, if you want to live a good life. Marriage, done well, very much about removing the doubt of whether to abandon the whole thing has costs too ofc
@spilendalaust @contemplatonist @NathanpmYoung part of why people put up with so much *self*-abuse is also because they can't leave!
Whoa, "free" and "friend" have related etymologies! To be free is to be beloved. @visakanv have you seen this? (via @rasoolr) joyfulmilitancy.com/2017/12/11/fri…
from etymonline.com/search?q=free
@42irrationalist these things are hard to measure, ofc, but I'm aware of at least 3 people who have teared up or cried while reading this post of mine malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
@42irrationalist and I think someone told me they cried reading my latest post too actually, hm
@p_millerd related probably
Replying to @roddur_dasgupta
@roddur_dasgupta @nickcammarata it's definitely known-by-me to be oversimplified but it seems to be approximately true and if you want a gears-model backing up how this sort of thing would be evolutionarily fit, check out David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, re cultural evolution amazon.com/Beginning-Infi…
@AskYatharth @Aella_Girl ⚡️🔗! which post of mine is this? the regret one?
also interested in this question!
Retweeted @jambarree
“‘Friend’ and ‘free’ in English…come from the same Indo-European root, which conveys the idea of a shared power that grows.…
Retweeted @nickcammarata
idea: in your head treat USD as a foreign currency and make your main currency a log_2 approximation of USD to better al…
@patconnolly Yup, I was recalling the hostel too! 2012. I remember skimming your copy of GTD. Since then I've founded a competing philosophy: malcolmocean.com/2020/12/compli…
@patconnolly So yeah, sure, could be cool to have a call sometime 😄 I was still in Waterloo last year but I'm living on the west coast now. Part of that story arc (and a pretty good overview) malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
Retweeted @uncatherio
The purpose of all this - (*gestures* at “tasks”) - is to be prepared to make the most of it, when an opportunity arises fo…
Prompted me to wonder: How rich is it possible to get before an average person could *definitely* know that you're rich even if you didn't want them to know. Via lists of rich people or whatever. Seems almost certainly somewhere between 1M & 1B, but where?
I guess in practice this is usually limited by like, people becoming crazy rich by owning shares in companies, particularly ones they founded, which is kinda documented. But with eg Bitcoin, maybe... Can you actaully sell 1B of Bitcoin without getting noticed though?
@sashintweets My full answer: this tweet/thread
@michaelcurzi > Your utopia’s my dystopia. Assumptions undermine us at every turn. I agree this is generally true in practice; I also think there's something powerful possible in the space of gently orienting towards a thing that'd be actually good (+"in the meantime")
@michaelcurzi patreon can do "per video" or "per post" or similar... though I guess that's still not quite what you're looking for I think, as it still assumes patrons are going to buy every such unit of thing as long as they're subscribed.
@michaelcurzi maybe you want a gumroad? then just tweet about what you're offering gumroad.com
Replying to @incrediblefolly
@gregbglw we've got a bunch of exercises that we guide people through at the Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops that we host a few times a year most relevant ones: - write a letter to yourself from the future - envision dozens of dreams you could pursue, then select complice.co/event/gci2021a…
Retweeted @ChasingMyself
When it comes to the big personal problems that our lives sometimes feel stuck on, they’re similar in many ways to the o…
"The Congress Hall is a room designed for conversation. One hundred and fifty people can carry on a conversation as if they were seated in a living room. [...] Clearly, the designers of that room understood that conversation and self-governance are inextricably linked." — Senge
"If we lose our ability to talk with one another, we lose our ability to govern ourselves." —Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline (Introduction to the Paperback Edition)
@aaronzlewis muaha indeed, got some photos from my friend. bottom of first page through to middle of second page is the relevant bit
@roseaboveit > anything over 10-12 Mil is inherently unethical missing a verb here. earning? keeping? figuring out how to usefully give away that much money without causing weird side effects is not actually as easy as I used to think relevant thread by @vgr
@roseaboveit also as @BlackForestBoi and other Steward Ownership proponents will point out, transitioning from a standard company to something more ethical is something you can be sued for in the USA if it reduces shareholder value (which in expectation, it should)
"that particular situation got muddled by me kinda demanding a symmetrical thing from her boobs" …I was journalling & that last word was offered by my keyboard 😆 surely there are words I type more often after "her" 😅
@pee_zombie @visakanv best answer so far I think
Replying to @mrdrinkmeyeezys
@CruzCalvo link him to @IndieHackers
@karmacustodian I make a point of remembering (often jotting down) the name of customer service rep who greets me whenever I call a hotline, and saying it to them at least once (often just eg "thanks for helping Sean"). Feels like such an easy win in terms of making people more human.
@brandontoner I'll probably visit NS sometime in the next year to see my fam once I don't have to quarantine for the first 2 weeks! Hopefully not at a time when you're travelling somewhere else 🙃
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Why do we need need new tools for collective intelligence? The sensemaking system that produced this is still dominant. https:/…
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Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
not to be melodramatic but i think we've been deeply failed by our stories in a really fundamental way. hardly any stories…
Had a dream last night where I was singing How Great Thou Art. What a gorgeous song! Does anyone know a song that channels this much WONDER & AWE outside of a Christian frame? 🤩 youtu.be/0HJYZj8PqEY
@pragueyerrr < this gif but the boulders are hearts > ❣️ ❤️💕❤️ 💕❤️💕❣️ ❣️💕❣️💕❤️ ❤️💕❤️💕❤️❣️ 💕
@pragueyerrr it's building....
@Aella_Girl I think that the frame/worldview of The Discourse inherently doesn't count the power & status from victimhood. Which is kind of a large-scale version of the self-reinforcing system dynamics described in this Power-Under book. (particularly 2⃣ below)
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth This seems true to me in a sense, but simultaneously there's also Planck's principle: ~"Science progresses one funeral at a time." Not sure how to balance those. People need to get better at changing their minds.
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa Would have guessed slightly more (~$30k) but on reflection it sounds right for where you are in your journey and the fact that in an important sense you really aren't focused on short-term revenue right now.
unstable foods, that once prepared must be eaten very quickly and can't be maintained in their state (eg by heating) - a bowl of cereal and milk - an "irish car bomb" (shot of baileys in guiness; must be drunk immediately before it curdles) - what else?
@danlistensto hmmmmmmmm only if in a cone.
@piva_jonas surely there are words EVERYONE types more often after "her"
Retweeted @nosilverv
this makes me horny twitter.com/RemitNotPaucit…
Thread · Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive · 1 of 18 tweets
@The_Lagrangian how are things going after ~6 weeks? 😄
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania I assumed there had to be a different name for it in the UK, and would hopefully make a point of looking up said name if I were travelling to the UK 😬
@stubborncurias Hmm... I have a friend who is quite precise about her tea (will eg throw it out & start over if any not-100%-boiling water touches the teabag) but who last year got into a habit of re-heating the tea at various stages, including post-refrigeration.
@danlistensto yeah but you could put it back in the freezer before it did
goddamnit I really hate that Google News thinks it's an important "breaking news" headline for me that there was a shooting a thousand miles (and an international border) away. it matters, but is well within the manifold of ordinary news
Retweeted @So8res
"Stop using phrases that meticulously track uncommon distinctions you've made; we already have perfectly good phrases that igno…
@RichardMCNgo High school was better than elementary school, but also both were SO MUCH WORSE than is possible, and *also* I didn't realize how much elementary & middle school trauma I had been not looking at until just a few years ago. Might've said "positive" before.
This is a great thread. Precision of language is important. Took me many years after I learned that, to also learn to pay attention also to times when parts of you resist your favorite reframes, as these are signs of unconscious knowings that want to be integrated.
Replying to @jstanotherview
@jstanotherview The Guest House by Rumi (/ Coleman Barks) has a potent vibe here of *welcoming*. The crowd of sorrows perhaps seems kind of escalatey, but the overall energy is still allowing rather than stoking the fire.
Replying to @jstanotherview
@jstanotherview @SarahAMcManus' elephant-in-a-closet metaphor—give the emotion more space
@AskYatharth I'm doing a thing where everybody—including their shadow—is my Lama and it's my job to discern how exactly it's all made of wisdom (which it will not appear to be at first, otherwise we'd be done). Well, no, that's our collective job. My job's holding my own wisdom w open heart.
@AskYatharth On one level, the thing I'm describing above feels like an advanced technique, that I became ready for by outgrowing several Lamas. On another level, it feels like it's actually an entirely workable fresh starting point—I feel like I've conveyed some of this to you, actually! 😮
@utotranslucence Sometimes me. Lots of moments of wonder at even existing and at little things. Have had a lot more darkness the past 7~8 years and am working to integrate that. My richest moments, perhaps, are when the darkness itself is brilliantly inspiring and beautiful.
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Who’s out there trying non-authoritative remixes of tantra and vajrayana?
@3S33R @nickcammarata for me what changed was seeing in detail the ways that layers of bad get built up in people, masquerading as layers of good eg learning to "be a nice person" by repressing own needs eg trying to learn to "not be an asshole" rather than developing safety that makes it unnecessary
I'll be off twitter again tomorrow for #TwitterDayOff Tuesday. Join me! (you might be able to find me doing pomodoros in this room) complice.co/room/twitter-d…
further to support @robbensinger's recent LW post "politics is way too meta" (lesswrong.com/posts/Js34Ez9n…) which talks about hazards of obsessing about perceived viability of an option although I have mixed feelings about the term "meta" being used in this way twitter.com/robertwiblin/s…
cool exploration. doesn't all resonate for me but some gems in here and I think that doing this act of writing out how we see this epic ☯️ dance of energies is meaningful feeling like I might try it myself sometime but now is not that time
@garybasin hm, something about this initially read as plausible to me, but then I considered the overall size of the markets and the amount of selling needed to take a vacation or buy something to show off, and it seems like it would be a teensy % vibes w this tho:
I've thought about this many times since I read it and found it a really useful critique for my thinking about investing, though it's not my only heuristic.
@nathanfray @julianweisser I'm kinda interested in creating something like this, although simultaneously recognizing that's probably a bit like intending to create a scenius—kind of naive 😜 But nonetheless, would be interested in talking with you about what you know about such towns!
@julianweisser depends ofc on what features matter for equivalency, but "intentional communities" are definitely one vector of this
@QiaochuYuan the Steerswoman Series by Rosemary Kirstein is one that comes to mind as having richer conflict resolution, although it certainly starts by having the appearance of bad guys, which then unravels and becomes very complex & confusing also good example of Kegan 4-5 transition
chainsmokers songs are good poetry, with rhyming (including internal rhyme) more like what you'd expect from rap and they have a concrete situatedness: a terrace in Paris that Blink-182 song that we beat to death in Tucson
@StokeNe21059315 @QiaochuYuan because it hasn't been finished? 😅 welp, there's that.
@QiaochuYuan @quotidiania I like to say that the presence of the intense emotion IS situated and not incidental, but neither its size nor shape are per se about the situation so much as how I'm construing it. (still very technical language although I used to say "quantity & quality" not "size & shape")
Thread · Rationality only exists within a frame · 2 of 5 tweets
it's only possible to be rational within a frame
it's only possible to be rational within a frame = without a frame, it's impossible to be rational (exoteric meaning 🤔🤓) = within a frame, it's *only* possible to be rational (esoteric meaning 🤫🤯)
Just remembered an album I've rocked out to many times but hadn't listened to in over a year and I put it on and holy shit my body feels so alive. Highly recommend doing this. Am now contemplating this eternal koan with my whole bodymind:
I'd like if my personal @zoom room could have some trusted people who can like, show up any time and see who's in the room and just hit join (the waiting rooms are shit). Make it a PLACE. (If I wanted privacy, I would use a diff url (+ maybe a button to "lock room" once in.))
@bsears_ @Zoom I'll probably do this sooner or later, yeah. But when I'm meeting I like eg the recorded conversations.
Tryna fix a bug with the complice.co linkifier module (turns urls into links), and I nearly downloaded a 19kB (minified!) library with 100s of hardcoded TLDs (eg .com) before I was like wait, I don't need to police this! New regex: \b(https?:\/\/|www\.)\S+[.:]\S+
This new regex says "look, if you put https://thing or www.thing, imma let you click it! not my job to tell you if the domain is a valid TLD or whatever!" It'd be nice to match eg plain complice.co with no http or www, but tbh that's rare in Complice context anyway.
Retweeted @xuenay
My current largest disagreement with a lot of self-help is that it's commonly framed as "how to get yourself to do X", rather t…
@aaronzlewis this 👇 came up like a minute after I saw your tweet and I couldn't help myself
@xuenay related:
Totally a thing. Lots of people find it easier to have a sidehustle than a full-time biz. My early self-directed productivity on Complice was probably aided by it being a thing I got to prioritize over schoolwork.
@yashkaf lol yeah it's like, stick your own fucking neck out, QTer instead of "hope you don't get cancelled for this!" say "I share this view" instead of "this will piss off some people!" say "anyone pissed off about this is in the outgroup"
@jack_meditates I talked with a friend who knows a thing or two about this and he said that's a huge part of it. Pretty visible to me to as a Canadian who gets paid in USD and watched CAD/USD spike last march (CAD dropped when oil did) then decline to lowest-since-2018
@jack_meditates it was way lower (CAD actually worth more than USD) for a few years after the 2008 fiasco which affected Canada jobs-wise but I guess not the dollar so much but yeah, this is the biggest 1y decline in a decade (would have to compare other things too ofc to get a real sense)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
release the kraken release the hounds release the gremlins release thesaurus #GooglePoems @GooglePoetics …
@TylerAlterman @CompliceGoals omg I'm so curious what the name is of the goal that this top priority goes towards 😂
This is one of the best @threadapaloozas I've seen. How did I miss it til now? How does it not have more retweets? Does a cat have the buddha nature? 😹
Replying to @pierce
@pierce I don't see how this is relevant if users need to know the other person's email. Wouldn't they just send an unwanted email without slack? Or, if actively trying to bother someone, subscribe the person to stupid newsletters? Slack as a middle-man doesn't seem to change much here.
I'm legit super confused about how a bunch of people think this opens up channels for harassment. It's just an email client. It's an email client. You put in a recipient email, you send a message. Except now no msg. This doesn't let you email anyone you couldn't already email.🧐 twitter.com/pierce/status/…
Am I missing something? Seriously, am I missing something? I feel crazy. It can't be "well what if stalkee has blocked stalker's email?" because sending from a new email address is way easier than sending mail from a corporate slack workspace, so that's irrelevant afaict.
@pierce I'm genuinely baffled about what the threat model is here; not trying to be disagreeable.
Retweeted @JoeStreckert
I made this. It's for you.
@AskYatharth @pierce thaaaaaaaaaaaat sliiiiiiightly explains it but like wouldn't someone just make new email addresses?! or use services that send spoofily? or whatever? I hardly think I'm overestimating the persistence of people driven to do shit like this.
@zachphillips @Zoom yessssssss
@nicknaraghi @Zoom hmm I think there are issues with this: - can't be host to multiple rooms simultaneously, so what happens if I'm in a meeting and people try to join that room? - the part where they can see who's in the room before joining feels important somehow? - something
@the_wilderless make sure you don't miss the utterly wacky indie film Primer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(f…
@RichDecibels @SeanMombo this resonates also wanting to find out what's possible when I have more capacity to fund things I want to make happen
read 100 tweets twitter.com/z3nblack/statu…
@AskYatharth @pierce Ahh, okay, that helps. I'm imagining the breaching thing feeling kind of like how I felt when I opted into Brave Rewards and they were PUSH NOTIFICATIONS. (different dimension but has in common some sacred expectation deeply violated)
Some good discussion w @AskYatharth further down in the original thread:
@basakbuilds this list looks similar to the "5 components of secure attachment" 🛡️ safety 💞 attunement 🫂 comfort & physical affection 🤩 unconditional expressed delight 👣 unconditional support for child's explorations (from this course: attachmentrepair.com/online-courses…)
I spit on fools who fail to include Breasts in their metaphysics
— Charles Simic, in his poem Breasts which you can read here: cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/boo…
The poem is good! It's rich and sincere and alive and raunchy yet respectful. Here, as images below, for convenience.
Thread · Why racialized emoji were a unicode design mistake
Watched this at 1.75x speed. Was kinda helpful. I'm pissed at Apple for violating the unicode guidelines & making white emoji. Also pissed at whoever thought the solution was to add other races rather than acknowledge that the categories of unicode are not the place for that.
I also think making yellow peoply people was a mistake emoji-wise. As soon as they have hair, you've lost it. Ok: 🤠 Not ok: 👮 Yellow hands should have been kept to go with the yellow smiley color which I'm pretty sure was chosen because yellow is considered a happy color.
Comparisons with the simpsons only arise when you start having peoply people, at which point yep, yellow is white, because there are a few racialized characters on that show who are literally racialized by having their color *accurate* instead of *yellow*.
As a long-haired man who loves all colors but purple especially, I default to this emoji 🤦♀️ instead of 🤦♂️ or 🤦, but I shouldn't have to pick a hair length and shirt color in order to facepalm! That's irrelevant to the meaning of the gesture.
Relevant thread about how using categories to validate is a losing battle. Your experience is valid regardless of how well it fits in any categories. That's not what categories are for.
Retweeted @visakanv
making thousands of dollars from hanging out in @visakanv's mentions? it's more common than you think
Thread · Recording song demos to find music collaborators · 2 of 8 tweets
just recorded a halfhour video of me singing 6 songs I've written, mostly just acapella, in search of people to collaborate with me to turns some of these songs into actual tracks that can be bought & streamed & so on. Will edit & upload soon, hopefully tonight!
Was a neat experience! I feel pretty satisfied with the quality of my performance, although I have a little of that taste>skill thing re ~showmanship. That is, I can tell I don't have as much of the youtube equivalent of vibing with a crowd like a busker. But it's ok!
@tasshinfogleman I mostly just like, get only halfway through writing a thread then get distracted (including by eg like, a scheduled call) and it gets archived into intertwingled.blog until I get around to finishing it
Thread · Recording song demos to find music collaborators · 1 of 8 tweets
I don't have video editing software but I know how to use ffmpeg so I'm just finding commands to crop/zoom the video and combine the video & audio. 😂🤓 It's way faster as long as you can find exactly the command you want, because there's no need to visualize extra stuff in RAM.
this is sacred stuff.
@mayfer these demos aren't—I thought about it half of them have some tempo changes that would have made that prohibitively difficult especially since I'm not super practiced at singing to a metronome but! would not be that hard to make some with a metronome 🕰️
@mayfer just counted it out and a couple of the ones that I thought had tempo changes seem to basically just be a double-time + rhythm-change thing
Thread · Recording song demos to find music collaborators · 1 of 8 tweets
welp, various things have got this going a bit slower than I originally imagined, but it should still be done sometime tomorrow one way or another
music that if you didn't know better would make you think something was broken with your headphones sounds that you wouldn't expect to hear in a song but they're happening on the beat so you know they must be
(this tweet brought to you by about 3mins into this mix) soundcloud.com/lvn-lgt/cymbal…
Retweeted @ZacharyHundley
normalize 👏 long 👏 periods 👏 of 👏 inactivity 👏
Oh cool, my soundcloud "likes" page is public. I've been curating really great tracks & mixes there for years, that I love relistening to. Have a listen if you like chillstep &/ electrofunk or you're just curious what I like, & share any of your favs 🥰 soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/l…
@magicianbrain ooh fuck, nice
Thread · Recording song demos to find music collaborators · 1 of 8 tweets
damn, from this tweet and my subsequent realizing that the tempos don't change as much as I thought... I probably just wanna re-record the demo with a metronome so that people can start playing with them directly. low friction VITAL for spontaneous collab
maple tree grows from maple seed 🌱 oak tree grows from acorn 🌰 what other seeds have their own names, like acorn? @SarahAMcManus
Haven't gone that *deep* into the attachment repair / Ideal Parent Figure protocol course but I'm really getting a taste for the basic *shapes* of attachment eg my urge to fall apart & be held and not responsible for holding myself ❤️🫂🤱
@danhines09 what part sounds terrifying? (this is the course I was referring to) attachmentrepair.com/online-courses…
@phantom_opus @SarahAMcManus I like the line of thinking! tho seems that's a folk etymology, not the actual origin
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i don't think i've really allowed myself to notice how much i dislike this but i actually feel sad and angry every time i…
Replying to @youarezera
@youarezera @SarahAMcManus in Quebec, they call imitation syrups "sirop de poteau", ie "telephone pole syrup" 😂
@m_ashcroft this phrase (online alexander technique) seems like the thing you'd want to list for
@m_ashcroft ...you have one video with this exact phrase in the title. maybe you want more? current one is "Product discovery journey for my online Alexander Technique course" which wouldn't actually be what someone googling this phrase wants youtube.com/watch?v=y443AT…
@m_ashcroft you want (at some point) videos and probably also posts with titles like: "Can I learn alexander technique online?" "How to get started with alexander technique online?" "Online alexander technique—can it be done?" "Announcing online alexander technique course"
@m_ashcroft looks like this guy has a pretty good domain name... but he only offers zoom-based lessons, not a course and he doesn't actually say much about the epic embodied ontological upgrade AT offers alexander-technique-online.com/online-lessons/
@tasshinfogleman @visakanv @m_ashcroft @RonenV I think I've been slightly worried at times that people will think I'm the productivity app guy or something like that. But as with AT, the core of the Complice philosophy is something I think permeates all of being & doing.
Retweeted @visakanv
@sonyasupposedly @SHL0MS one day people will write about how this part of twitter was legendary for all the overlapping origi…
an invitation: when you finish reading this tweet, before scrolling further, close your eyes and inquire: "what thoughts are flitting at the edge of my conscious awareness, that I haven't quite acknowledged?"💭 (no need to share the thought here! often edgy/high-context stuff)
holy shit this is huge twitter.com/zachandmattsho…
I'm intrigued also to note that it wasn't until I considered the original source (FoxBiz) that it occurred to me that maybe the quote is from a perspective *opposed* to a UBI but on reflection—maybe a supporter of the bill wouldn't dare make it sound so extreme as UBI!
which makes me think about @robbensinger's recent excellent post that talks about how people tend to overfixate on how likely they think a bill is to pass or be well-received, compared to what real-world impact it would actually have if it did lesswrong.com/posts/Js34Ez9n…