I've been playing around with writing ~job descriptions but instead of for hiring someone with money it's just for roles I'd love to have someone else play in various peer-shaped projects with me it's really fun & clarifying
November 2022
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
goals always exist on all time-horizons connecting them well across horizons is an art
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
there's an ongoing tension between 🛠️👣 just going ahead and executing smaller-scale goals, so that stuff gets done and…
what are your favorite unresolvable tensions to learn to dance with?
@aleksil79 😙👌
@visakanv Visa's Zigzagging Zealots
interesting thread. an uncommon angle on things
Replying to @carinmariederry
@RebeccaMadison_ 100% both. even if you're projecting something onto them, there's a reason you're projecting *that particular something* onto them, not something else they have the power to behave differently to avoid that projection; you have the power to introspect and untangle it.
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia New Study Finds Cannabis Increases Ability Across A Wide Variety Of Domains But Reduces TDTPT (The Desire To Pass Tests) To Nearly Zero
@RebeccaMadison_ I wrote a blog post that goes into this in a lot more depth! & happy to talk more about it malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-…
@anielsen108 @cekaur based ❤️🔥
did you do something today that was plausibly the most important thing you could do today? what's on for tomorrow?
my latest podcast interview, with @ESpacewalk! topics include: - Donella Meadows & systems - Full Fractal Buy-In - Learnings from traveling - Trust-dancing - Concessions, compromises, & feeling understood - Complice & keeping your goals feeling-driven youtube.com/watch?v=XO2yh5…
people don't realize that political strategies that create problems for other people end up creating opponents out of those other people who end up making the strategies fail win-wins are the only stable equilibrium unless you actually want to (& CAN) destroy those who disagree
@JakeOrthwein @thesfcommons I had no idea you were involved in this! I'm signed up and I'll see you there 🤩
@Tropical_Xavier that is somewhat true but it's a different form of unawareness your foes are also the people who pave your roads, who sell you groceries, who write the software you use, who write the books you read you can't destroy them without destroying yourself
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
did you do something today that was plausibly the most important thing you could do today? what's on for tomorrow?
@any_other_you blew my mind when I realized all the linear equations I'd learned in high school & university for solving mechanical or electrical system problems were just the first term of a taylor series approximation of the actual function
I am becoming increasingly convinced that double-negatives are going to save civilization
Replying to @gnopercept
@gnopercept The Thirteen Numbered Lists
@RichDecibels yesssssssssss youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3N0t…
@RichDecibels also
@MattWalshBlog @elonmusk yes dear g̶o̶d̶ elon please don't actually make me a bluecheck just because I pay for twitter blue
@MattWalshBlog @elonmusk but also my impression is that you're somewhat intending to solve the impersonation problem in various other ways
@m_ashcroft see that's where I have trouble I sit down to meditate and then a few minutes later I'm like "oh I'm sitting here, I was gonna be practicing... what was it..." and I often don't quite get back to "awareness that mindfulness is a thing I could be practicing" before I'm gone again
on a Complice team call with @joyurge just now, he pointed out that the Complice philosophy says "choosing & doing, over organizing" but the Today page has "Organize" as a main verb so I was like "well that's clearly wrong" and <1h later it's fixed:
instead of trying to gamify your life what if you learned to lifify your game?
instead of trying to gamify your life what if you learned to life-ify your game?
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia @meditationstuff @chaosprime Broadly my model is that there's some sort of internal conflict being ignored on some level, especially if it's not that it stops working it's that you stop doing it.
@rmbalt Minx Jinx But yes, latinks
also dignity doesn't need to depend on any hierarchy of power or status rankism is the actual issue underlying all other isms of discrimination
@AskYatharth exactly.
@AskYatharth well, approximately. something not entirely unlike exactly.
@rmbalt ahh yeah, it's not a vowel in that case no but the latineks construction isn't exactly vowel either...
@rmbalt I think english has something where certain consonants get to be honorary part-vowels in some situations... N, L, R, for some reason iirc. ah, "liquid consonants"—they can be held and resonate, unlike a K sound. Or something. Still not relevant! quora.com/Which-language…
@JimmyRis yup, totally. I like that
Retweeted @justavagrant_
"i don't trust this but i trust that if it fails, i'll be fine" not the main takeaway from the interview but really he…
Retweeted @poetrygrifter
As a kid visiting family in China, I was taken to see Tiananmen Square by my dad. We stood in front of the portrait of M…
Retweeted @ErikVoorhees
Let's remember that @elonmusk charging $8 for premium Twitter experience means Twitter becomes the product again, instead…
I've been puzzling at the similarities & differences between distributed cognition at different scales—including cognition of a single person, which is distributed between neurons. It seems clear that we can at least *ponder* the scales above, in ways an individual neuron can't.
@nclaurence I came across this again and apparently I'm curious how your thesis went (and also the acknowledgements section)
@visakanv me the other day: "I'm noticing a ton of judgmental thoughts and I don't know if it's because I'm judging more than usual or noticing more than usual"
Replying to @creepyanomaly
@creepyanomaly all the other people who resonate with this:
"if you're not with us, you're against us" = virgin single negative "if you're not against "if you're not with us you're against us", you're against us" = chad double negative
@gmamoon888 @UntilTrees there's no single best resource but I do have a ton on it here's one of the latest pieces, which is very dense and can convey a bunch of background thoughts on the topic malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@nosilverv @QiaochuYuan he coached at our goal-crafting intensives a month ago my sense is he's doing okay, maybe just quite offline atm if I were in Seattle area I might be trying to find a way to hang out with him
@gmamoon888 @UntilTrees you can also search my tweets for "trust", here: twitter.com/search?q=from:… here's another rabbit hole:
Replying to @carinmariederry
@RebeccaMadison_ glad you liked it! you might dig some of my other explorations in symmetries around communication eg this, although there are many others. also feel free to ask for more specific suggestions or whatever. I love working with real examples! malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-p…
@liminal_warmth @selentelechia it's an interesting puzzle figuring out how to measure creativity or something like that in someone who isn't gonna be motivated by bullshit tests I guess you could film them playing/creating or something & have external judges evaluate the creativity of their process/results?
Retweeted @losingcontrol23
demon hunters summon demons unfortunately, demon summoners also summon demons; no clever reverse psychology here dem…
@RichDecibels someone's summary of your thread:
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl yeah getting to choose to turn a marginal hour into marginal $ at a rate that is decent, doing work you don't hate... is pretty awesome! most complaints are: - work (or boss) sucks - rate too low - other constraints - eg you have to work 9-5, rather than choosing when/how much
@aleksil79 this definitely seems true in general but it seems to me that system dynamics would be different around transformational methodologies vs counteractive ones and that as we get increasingly good transformational methodologies, they'll evolve towards increased efficacy
In other words, insofar as we *are* neurons (in some sense) we have the potential to notice this! But we can also be unconscious to that reality, and flailing around propagating memes without any sense of the larger patterns of information flow.
@Jason I don't want a blue check. I would pay >$20/mo for various other features but blue check marks are associated with a completely different vibe than me.
@elonmusk @cosminDZS you might dig this thread that describes the meta-game that twitter already is, with different people choosing to play different games by interacting differently / with different people
@itinerantfog no idea if this would be my top pick if I thought about it for a few more minutes, but it's what first came to mind, as requested: youtube.com/watch?v=70xFeD…
@daemonhugger my impression is that when people talk about safety in an emotional/relational context what they mostly mean is that they aren't at risk of having to layer or repress something
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 1 of 219 tweets
"satisficing" is a word
@nosilverv this is why optimizing doesn't work for choosing between real things and satisficing does it's "given everything I know, am I a yes to this?" making a spreadsheet of dimensions might help you make sure you're not forgetting any, but it can never compute the answer
@JLBornstein how have you seen people successfully normalize that?
Retweeted @aleksil79
Turns out @elonmusk is global-brain-pilled. Does he have a collective intelligence team? Collective wisdom? Memetics? Who w…
@RomeoStevens76 @AskYatharth "see out"
Retweeted @Plinz
Out of all social media platforms, Twitter has the greatest potential to be organized into a global brain. Out of all possible l…
what if in addition to muting words from your timeline, you could also have certain words or filter functions that would shadow-mute replies to your tweets something about curating conversation. probably bad, probably better to detect context-escape and auto-follows-reply-only
@Plinz I thought you were exaggerating but wow yeah this is a messy thread that contains product placement, damn.
attending closely to the details of *this* problem is how you reorganize your consciousness to be able to approach the problem in the abstract
@rachelclif after reading a bunch of elon's tweets since he bought twitter, I've gotta agree
@legitDogeQueen @RealBrysonGray @elonmusk @bennyjohnson yeah it's not even so much about "far left" it's about lack of empathy or respect for other people you can have a wide range of policy priorities without that
Propagating information, whether forward in time (in personal or collective memory) or between people (communication) requires error-correction. It seems there are two kinds: - correct to source - correct to reality Both are important, but they have different roles.
If you tell me something and it doesn't fit with reality-as-it-seems-to-me, then it's important that I don't take your word(-as-I-interpret-it) as fact, or I'll go kinda crazy. But if I assume *you're* just crazy, then I'll miss out on whatever signal *is* in what you're saying.
So it's important for me to go back and figure out what it is you actually mean* if we're to continue to dialogue about reality. *unless I think you're straight-up lying or bullshitting, in which case I *may* want to figure out what your motive is, or I may want to gtfo
Then there are situations where the source is uhh kinda gone. Nobody can ask Jesus what he meant by "the meek shall inherit the earth" [in aramaic]. We can ask a priest, or the Pope, who... maybe know? They claim to know. Hmm.
Also, if you claim to do only correct-to-source, that strategy means making your lineage lossy (even though it's probably sneakily correcting-to-reality anyway!) eg "any wisdom herein is from my teachers; any mistakes are my own" it's bullshit
Retweeted @Plinz
@aleksil79 @elonmusk some people would be hires but the nature of the stuff is that it would also make sense for there to also just be a distributed network of people thinking about it
for all my etymology geeks out there consider the two meanings of fair: beautiful, & just
@monotremism 😙👌 (etymonline says the connotations of "fair" meaning pale-skinned come from some period when that was considered a particularly beautiful trait)
Retweeted @GrugBrainedDev
remember! always good senior grug say "hmmm, this seem too complicate & confuse to me" junior grug often fear say "to…
ICYMI
@nclaurence totally - makes sense! the "brilliant fool" line hits different in relation to an academic work vs a spiritual text (which is what I was reading when it prompted this thread)
@IaimforGOAT @liminal_warmth @selentelechia brilliant! I'd love to see the results
@visakanv this is why you've surrounded yourself with friends who understand the long game. we'll wait ;)
I'm writing something* that's intended to be published as a page/post, but for some interesting reason I feel compelled to make each paragraph at most tweet-length. It's keeping me really precise at least! *for complice.co, called "Intentionality, not Productivity"
> America’s notion of evil is always the childish one of good guys fighting bad guys. But that’s not what evil is. What evil actually is, most often, is good corrupted. ift.tt/0BP3s8X
suffering will continue until meditation improves
Retweeted @harmonylion1
“Vibes” is a legit sociological invention writing became as abundant as body language —> learned to curate based on…
TIL that "ain't" was originally short for "am not" and was considered proper until it started getting used in place of "isn't" & "aren't" & "hasn't", & tagged as cockney as such it got dropped so hard that people started saying "aren't I?" which I are inclined to agree is weird
but it turns out we don't need "I ain't" though because we can always say "I'm not" instead. so conveniently it was easy to drop. which isn't true for "isn't" because "isn't" goes after any singular noun, not just the "I" pronoun!
identifying with everything is great but have you tried identifying with the parts of yourself that you usually disidentify from in order to identify with everything because they don't identify with everything?
boing I am flippable
@Human__Age exactly
please submit other tweets for this folder "tweets which make you stop and take a deep breath for the first time today"
good principles for effective coordination in any relationship, tbh the main difference being that in other relationships it's a much more available solution to solve issues via taking a major step back twitter.com/HiredThought/s…
@visakanv *the people you sleep with will end up being the people you've slept with I think it's important to emphasize the present choice by putting the first part in present tense (could also use habitual be, but that would be weird for most people: "the people you be sleeping with…")
@rmbalt @visakanv bereal is understatedly just plain great. it's a tiny photo-based social network that lets you see slice of life moments of your friends, and prompts you take photos at times you never would have thought to
@jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft I so don't want the blue checkmark I mean I know the associations with it will change really quickly, but it's still dumb—that's just not what "verified" was *for*. I already pay for twitter blue, but I don't need to wave a ✓ around
@ungatedcreative @m_ashcroft that's the main reason I started paying for twitter blue when I first had the chance well, in part also to encourage them to shift away from ads-based business model
I already pay for twitter blue mostly because I wanted to encourage twitter to shift away from an ads-based business model but idgaf about the bluecheck, in fact frankly I'd rather NOT have one
@0xmcc this is part of why I think it would be cool to set up pol.is for twitter!
@nibrasibn maybe the thing to do is just open your messages then tweet about the topic of whatever they messaged you about, then send them the tweet
Retweeted @chriswaterguy
Fantastic, let people build houses! And let's have this in Australia. #auspol
@s0ulDirect0r falling ever deeper in love with @utotranslucence
Retweeted @stevenmarkryan
@elonmusk Twitter's secret master plan: 1. Allow people to freely share thoughts, opinions, ideas and "information". 2…
@elonmusk @birdwatch oh wow this is already kind of like pol.is!
so the replies to @elonmusk's tweets are mostly garbage, but there are some earnest conversational replies that I get to see because I'm following the people who made them seems it would be a huge win to optimize the reply sort algo until Elon's stoked to read his replies
@elonmusk verifying people for $8 can ensure they're not impostors, and maybe can make it costly to ban people for spamming the same tweet 100 times. good! but that's removing the bottom 50% it doesn't touch the question of which top 2% of replies are worth engaging with!
@elonmusk currently I guess replies are sorted mostly by likes/RTs, which correlates with follower count and polemic takes what if we used a similar sort algo to Notes/@birdwatch, where the top-ranked tweets were ones liked/RT'd by a range of disparate accounts?
major pre/post fallacy going on with people's interpretations of Elon's governance of twitter it's quite instructive actually
@sashintweets yeah, hopefully the checkmark will actually just be one feature among many, and you can turn it off. seems unlikely though.
@sashintweets @jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft I don't think it works like that—you're allowed to have a pseudonym (and this is vital to how twitter works) so there's nothing to verify I guess it's verifying that you're *not* looking like another user, and then making it harder to name change
@sashintweets @jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft oh wait, I was initially worried that our tendency to put things like "in SF" or "(49/100 vids)" would be problematic here but it seems like maybe this is actually precisely the way to continually shed the checkmark 😛
@darpyu say more! curious about your perspective
Replying to @mandymadethis
@mandymadethis @stevenmarkryan @elonmusk wikipedia doesn't handle conflicting points of view and dialogue, it just handles things that are relatively well-established and agreed upon already
@hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk I think what he's saying is that he doesn't trust either party and would prefer to force them to compromise rather than letting them implement their agenda directly. I mean ideally we'd have dialogue & win-wins, not compromise, but that's a ways off.
Thread · Free speech as prerequisite for accurate information on Twitter
I saw a critique about how this is compatible with free speech. Easy: in order to have accurate information, everything needs to be sayable, AND people need to be able to find and organize what they see. Free speech is a necessary pre-req to accurate info.
People who were genuinely trying to figure stuff out on twitter in the early days of covid got banned for claiming (or even positing) things that were at the time considered false by CDC/WHO, that later turned into CDC/WHO doctrine.
Part of the puzzle here is... identifying people's motives? truthseeking 🧐 genuinely reporting what you see, to try to figure out what's going on advancing a cause 🫡 you may lie or bullshit or palter, to get people to vote or whatever sowing discord 💩 whatever fucks shit up
But it's very common to see perspectives that don't match yours as lying/bullshitting (or cultural norms that don't match yours as defecting) People need, for their own sanity, to actually LEARN how to identify the differences.
Part of what's going on is confused concepts of authority. The CDC felt their authority was being questioned by people talking about how maybe they were wrong. And frankly, it was! But that's appropriate and inevitable in this era. Maintaining cred via suppression doesn't work!
Elon's seriously planning to reorganize twitter so that everyone is getting information they find meaningful, relevant, and valuable out of it
And as far as I can tell there are ways to approach this platform design puzzle that simultaneously allow for more convergence on that which we can converge on, while also supporting pockets of people to incubate weird ideas everyone else thinks are dumb, to find if they work.
And this is a pretty good start!
@RobertHaisfield @brunowinck @jorgezaccaro @JoelChan86 @dvargas92495 ummm Rob we should just have a call and then do a screenshare of me taking notes on the call, on the call maybe with a 3rd person so that yall two can talk while I take notes, otherwise it'll get weirdly meta as I slow down to write and comment on my notes
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance uhh kinda but it's a much more general phenomenon than that page makes it out to be basically it's the phenomenon where you can't tell someone who's a stage beyond you from someone a stage behind you advanced Go play looks stupid to a medium player... until they lose
@abhayance shows up a lot with developmental stages - kegan etc, as well as spiral dynamics particularly because they have a spiral quality to them, going back and forth on some axes (particularly ~ connectedness vs autonomy) while uplevelling in another so to green, yellow looks orange
@s0ulDirect0r @utotranslucence everything. that's not a cop-out to your question—I specifically mean the everythingness of her approach to life, and my approach, and how those fit together
@twowackykids @hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk most recent acceptance speech basically denied the existence of republican voters, so I think we can assume that from a republican perspective they don't exactly feel like the democrats are sincerely trying to compromise or dialogue
@strangestloop what idea or take of mine should I make a video of at this phase?
@GarrettPetersen @darpyu pretty much the best possible performance for an enneagram 8 they're always gonna spitball ideas as if they're about to happen, and inevitably most don't but most promise a thousand things and deliver on none, or the ones they deliver on don't matter that much
@palmerish wow, show me a few more these? I like a bunch about the vibe here, could see getting this deck
@palmerish @visakanv so glad you're here. I speak for both visa and I when I say that moments like this are a huge reason why we do what we do in terms of curating this space and we're just getting started
@Aella_Girl for people whose microbiomes are fucked, you might try @mother_dirt or some other skin microbiome product improved my armpits quite a bit
@rmbalt I have too many followers and not enough engagement from the people who do follow me idk why people keep following me and I also dunno why tweets that feel like bangers or deep insights to me end up with like 4 likes (not complaining per se, this is just my subjective readout)
Retweeted @ShengwuLi
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker…
half the value of reading a communication book with your spouse or cofounder is that it gives you a new way to more easily trust that the other person is sincerely trying to figure out how to communicate with you ("are they trying to do the new thing the book suggests?")
gonna make this thread into a blog post in the next few days, hmu with a question or a "say more about this" or a comment of any other kind that I might incorporate!
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
PSA: If you keep thinking about it, write it down, set an alarm, emotionally process it (somatically, not narratively),…
@relic_radiation learn whatever you need to learn from it so that those proto-learnings don't need to hang on any longer
@goblinodds hate to break it to you but this is a well-known phenomenon 😅
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing 🤦♀️ similar vibe
@AskYatharth my favorite kind can't deal with homework only book clubs I've shown up for in a decade were ones where I'd already read the book before the book club started I think you can just run an event "let's talk about this book which we've all read" (@interintellect_ salon?)
Retweeted @vgr
Download your twitter data
Retweeted @VividVoid_
Everyone has a piece of the truth. What's a piece of the truth that your worst enemy knows in their bones, but that you of…
@MattPirkowski oooooh nice
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 1 of 219 tweets
"regurgitations" is a word
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl checked out the account and it doesn't read that way to me, just reads like fairly static/dogmatic regurgitations of the basic "don't coerce kids" meme at the center of TCS but not a lot of like, boggling it out in public or vulnerable reflection
@ben_r_hoffman scientific investigation as in it requires you to keep track of hypotheses, assumptions you're making, etc?
would you like your bacon illegible or legible?
@jambarree say more? do you have specific questions or critiques?
@CarstenStolz math is also a much safer context to let people make mistakes! especially since eventually they'll either figure it out or realize they're stuck, rather than struggling forever or gradually getting injured
@CarstenStolz yeah, makes sense! if you've got a bunch of mental activity going into correcting yourself, it'll tend to correct others too
@RomeoStevens76 ahhhh so true, yes tho it does also sort of help in the short term by greasing the wheels
yo @elonmusk you were frustrated about inflated MAU counts for twitter at large what about our follower counts being inflated because they include followers who aren't active on twitter or didn't interact with our stuff? hook us up
@rmbalt baller idea
@s0ulDirect0r @utotranslucence that is the plan!
@hormeze @goblinodds @m_ashcroft okay so what you're saying is that me & @goblinodds should be celebrated for rediscovering this old wisdom? I'm in.
@bochts @Kahlussy @twowackykids @hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk that may be true of legislation, but it seems clear to me they're not actually *listening* (I'm a Canadian who thinks both sides have some legitimate complaints & are being very incompetent about trying to fix things—don't think I'm taking a side here)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
an open challenge for ppl who are lurking and curious-but-nervous to engage more decide to remove the entire decision o…
if you're not having fun on twitter try an experiment where for every tweet that shows up on your timeline you either reply to it or unfollow whoever tweeted it (you can try this even if you're already having fun too)
@JayBo3331 @hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk thanks! I personally thought Elon was pretty clear about what he meant in his original tweet, but it's easy to pattern-match it onto something else, so I figured I'd try to paraphrase it
1. which emoji set do you generally prefer? 2. what's an exception? (an emoji you think another set did way better) for me I generally love google's emoji ↙️ but facebook ↘️ nailed: 😁 (top row, ugly on most platforms) 🤩 (G: same color as 😍, Tw close, Apple yellow like bg)
@DRMacIver I had a part show up as a fox once
@made_in_cosmos that seems pretty good! self-determination (or ofc if it feels right to you to stop sooner)
@lzsl @RichDecibels @cdr @m_ashcroft bingo
@mckinleaf @RichDecibels @cdr @m_ashcroft but also this (although this may be more due to timely drama than anything else) but twitter itself won't be behind a paywall, that'd be absurd
@m_ashcroft I sorta thought about it back when I was thinking about replacing twitter rather than fixing it, but maybe around the time that they made QTs more of a top-level feature I realized that probably fixing twitter is the way to go
@JayBo3331 @hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk but it looks like Hank is sincerely attempting to offer feedback to Elon on how to build trust with people like him, and it doesn't seem like Elon's listening that well I initially misread Hank as implying that Elon *wanted* twitter to become a $8/mo elon fan club tho, so...
@JayBo3331 @hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk paraphrasing Hank's tweet, while I'm at it: Elon, I want to help you by highlighting ways where you seem to be systematically burning trust with people who you need to have trust you in order to achieve what you want (twitter as info commons not fan club)
@JayBo3331 @hankgreen @keithgoldsby @elonmusk I'm myself not remotely clear what Hank's take is on *why* the original tweet by Elon is undermining people's trust! so it's not that useful feedback unfortunately :( - engaging with politics altogether? - suggesting voting R? - referring to "worst excesses"? ...something else?
@hankgreen @elonmusk @hankgreen I realized that I think it would be helpful if you actually articulated what the issue is with Elon's tweet, from your perspective, since it's not clear to me after a few minutes of thinking about it so it's surely not clear to anyone who disagrees with you (eg Elon)
@Petes2001 @RepSwalwell say more? I haven't heard about this
@palmerish @visakanv fyeah. love to see it. what are you hoping to explore here over the coming weeks & months? what seeds are you planting?
@palmerish wow, epic the Fool reminds me of falseknees.com 😆
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
fun fact: "task" has the same root as "tax"
@any_other_you I would simply have something to say
@any_other_you you could also simply
@any_other_you alternatively, maybe you're not here on twitter to have conversations, in which case you do you!
@m_ashcroft @mckinleaf @RichDecibels @cdr also also that, good point!
@brunowinck @RobertHaisfield @jorgezaccaro @JoelChan86 @dvargas92495 sgtm, now we just need to schedule it 😭 my schedule's pretty flexible tho actually so how about you & Rob just pick a time and it'll probably work for me. ah and my calendar reveals free/busy status if you add me to the event, so that'll be a good check
@Petes2001 @RepSwalwell ahh, great point! like it reveals the presence of lots of conservative voters who swung to vote trump out
Thread · Writing an opinionated Complice philosophy page as marketing · 5 of 7 tweets
hey @visakanv, following your suggestion for Complice to do marketing via sharing its opinionated viewpoint, I wrote a new take on the complice philosophy, intended to be a page on the site here it is in thread form:
the idea is it would encourage people to start eg identifying as someone who prioritizes intentionality, not productivity, & share the article as part of explaining their lifestyle/approach, regardless of whether they've even tried Complice
in other words, I'm realizing the Complice site needs to have writing with way higher higher memetic potential, more likely to go viral (maybe someone will post it on Hacker News or whatever)
I'd love feedback on any level of abstraction (could even be just "this is awesome do 99 more from different angles").
I wrote it in gdocs but I found myself making the paragraphs tweet-sized, so it was easy to then thread and I figured it'd be funner to share the current draft there than to link you to a gdoc so here it is! #GarageDoorUp
your reward for solving the problem is more problems usually, fortunately, you get more interesting problems
your first problem is you don't have a blog
your first problem is you don't have a blog THEN you can worry about more advanced problems like: - my blog is ugly - it has a dumb placeholder name - there's nothing on my blog - it has no readers but you don't get to graduate to those UNTIL you solve "I don't have a blog"
which platform to use? doesn't really matter! it's kinda hard to switch later, but not as hard as HAVING ALREADY STARTED A BLOG YEARS AGO is compared to starting one now & it'll never be worth switching if you never get started
I say just start with wordpress.com if you don't have a good reason to think something else is better (for you, or philosophically) - it's got tons of themes & plugins
Retweeted @vgr
Twitter 2007-21 was probably the biggest and most efficient conversion of financial to social capital in history. Other platforms…
also you can solve problems one-by-one. you don't have to solve them all at once for the fully general case first. in fact, uhh... good luck with that.
Thread · Doing 100 'do 100 things' challenges · 8 of 9 tweets
do 100 "do 100 things" I embarked on this challenge in May 2022 I'm tracking it privately in a spreadsheet called "DoubleVisa 100×100", but figured I'd make a public thread to log bigger picture progress
I started by taking credit for having already written 100 blog posts, since that's a classic challenge that Visa often issues people (as do I, although my more usual trick is challenging people to even make a blog in the first place)
the other already-done 100 I counted was this threadapalooza of "what if it were good tho?" ideas (I now phrase this "what if we made it good tho?" since it's less ambiguous)
I could have included "write 100 songs" or something, which is another thing I've already done, but I didn't, and I don't think I'm about to now. I do have a "release 100 more songs" (counting since the start of 2022) which has hit 3 so far
Sept 17: 362/10,000 things done 19/100 challenges started
Nov 8: 405/10,000 things done 21/100 challenges started 49/100 vids (my main focus, currently in my twitter name) one of my new challenges is "100 angers expressed", which is really satisfying so far (I'm already at 5!)
some of these I'm doing to really try to encourage myself to do more of them others I'm doing more because I think I'll learn something from intentionally tracking it, eg 100 sangrias (I love sangria, but they vary a lot) or U-intros
huh, yeah, there really is a whole thing about intentionality here intentionality is about experiencing whatever you're doing as part of a learning process that will inform the rest of your life
Thread · Writing an opinionated Complice philosophy page as marketing · 1 of 7 tweets
the webpage version now exists too! might as well just ship things if you send me a drawing or digital illustration that I decide to use for it, I'll send you $80 make sure it has a ~2×1 landscape aspect ratio so it makes for a good share image complice.co/intentionality
I don't think we've really reckoned with the extent to which people use open browser tabs as a to-do list
looking at midterm results and seeing 2 independents in the senate, I was initially vaguely hoping to see a perfect 49+49+2 split so that the power would go to whoever can actually dialogue but it looks like the independents include Bernie, and they caucus with the dems, so eh
So stoked about this latest podcast with @Trent_STEMpunk A great overview of my vision and my work, with some new metaphors for thinking about how non-naive trust enables collective consciousness. youtube.com/watch?v=B0S2Wf…
Probably my new favorite interview of the dozen or so I've done so far! (Sorry past interviewers—you'll just have to have me on again if you want to win that slot back 😜)
@monotremism there are two kinds of challenge here: 1. envisioning a world that you would both in fact deeply want 2. bringing that world about if you can get really fucking clear on #1, you can expect to have tremendous motivation & creativity towards #2 if you can't get clear on #1, nvm
@monotremism like human capability and capacity to solve difficult problems is very very large if you're unconflicted about solving them, and arranging your life to be with the one you love is exactly the sort of thing people regularly move mountains for
@monotremism like it might be that the obvious places to live all hit one of your dealbreakers, but if you really brainstorm what it's all about, you can figure out an option neither of you had considered that would be ❤️🔥🤩🚀🤘
@monotremism on the contrary, if one of you wants kids and the other doesn't and there's no sign that that's likely to evolve, then "certainly feels like your person" is an illusion because your *actual* person would want roughly what you want here! & ask your bodies:
@andrewkuznet neat! I think it's kind of a bad sign tho
Retweeted @martyna_io
Such an insightful thread on why productivity is the wrong metric when trying to measure how well we spend our time and why…
@martyna_io @visakanv Exactly! Thanks for the encouragement. I'm excited to write a ton more. I feel a wave coming...
Retweeted @abhayance
level the playing field yourself twitter.com/abhayance/stat…
@visakanv and it might actually be that the existing norms weren't bad for the existing group members, but *are* bad for the new guy... and then depending on why the new guy is joining, it may or may not be a priority to actually find new norms that work for everybody!
this thread dovetails quite closely with a bunch of my work on building scalable high-trust groups there's always the puzzle of how the expectations necessarily evolve when someone new joins
equanimity is great but have you tried solving your problems?
reads as sincere to me, given everything I know I'm sure some people have a really strong prior on SBF being a bad actor (I don't, I have friends who know him & his vibe) but for me, P(👇|♥️) > P(👇|😈)
@jessicamalonso yeah, you're free to have your feelings until you have other feelings you want to have instead and then you're free to have those
@jessicamalonso and my sense is that while it's possible and worthwhile to access a worldview without blame-based explanations at all... ...as long as blame is there, it's genuinely trying to help you understand what happened and navigate the future, and simply letting go of it would be naive
@jessicamalonso I personally find it absurd to have any sign of unread notifications on twitter at all (except for DMs) so I removed them. If I can see unreads I feel compelled to clear them, but it's a feed to dip into, not an inbox to keep at zero. So I fixed it:
torn between my desire to pay for twitter and access twitter blue features (which I already do, the $4 version) and my desire to countersignal by not purchasing products associated with status signalling
this is one of the most potent memes I've seen in the last year twitter.com/selentelechia/…
this looks like something @FANswitchboard would want to be tracking polaris-fellowship.com
the fact that so much decision-making capacity hinges on a small number of votes is a sign the system is fragile and failing to meaningfully aggregate (let alone synthesize) the preferences & knowledge of its constituents not that we didn't already know that, but...
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ @JakeOrthwein was quoting John Vervaeke as saying something to that effect addiction is a reciprocal narrowing meaning is a reciprocal opening ("reciprocal" as in a positive feedback loop, I think)
@SpencrGreenberg going for a walk, unladen, with nowhere in particular to go sometimes I don't bring my phone with me, which is really nice as it means that taking photos or messaging/calling someone is just off the table
@aleksil79 well put (similar thought I had)
@RomeoStevens76 @relic_radiation that was definitely me for awhile what shifted it...? hm reading Chapman helped @Morphenius's "fake frameworks" was a good stepping stone and then some trusted friends getting into chakras while saying "I don't believe anything that violates known physics" lesswrong.com/posts/wDP4ZWYL…
@DRMacIver that's 100% the obvious plan yeah
Replying to @keykickkid
@ropmur_bicbus welcome! what sorts of things do you want to talk about on here?
don't dress up your children like dolls from your past for they'll run from you madly, they'll never look back and when they grow older, they'll do just the same the world's a reflection of how children play
Retweeted @visakanv
recommendation: replace “I am the source of all my problems” (factually muddy statement. lots of your problems likely have mu…
@Sohanstag @visakanv "owner of my problems" seems fine "source of my problems" is pretty sus—if you have lead poisoning from your childhood pipes, the source isn't best understood as you
@palmerish @visakanv fyeah. I'm a textbook 7w8 and I've studied a lot of ennea8 blindspot patterns from people I've worked with. lots of potential there
@americafranco18 @utotranslucence this reminded me somewhat of our convo last night, tho maybe it's a different axis
Replying to @JoeBaco2
@JoeBaco2 whatever seems like it's got the most traction available or something alternatively just actually BOTH the shit out of it
@monotremism yeah. it's tough—I didn't really think I wanted kids ~7 years ago, then gradually increasingly have sensed I probably do, and now part of what makes it really clear for me that I do is that I want kids *with my partner in particular* so it's not statically knowable
@monotremism another thing that's been clarifying for me is that when I hang out with ~normie parents/kids I'm like 😳😬😱😢 but when I hang out with parents/kids who are more my type of person I'm like 🤩🥰🥹🤯 and since I'm my type of person, probably my situation will be the latter
what's the 80/20 rule? wrong answers only
being heard by the other person is never directly in your control, yet it's the thing you most want
@daemonhugger @GeorgeKao I don't think of it as "the other direction" there's at least: 📢 broadcasting (one-to-many) 🗒️ public notes (one-to-zero) 💬 public conversation (one-to-one-to-one) 🕸️ collective cognition (many-to-many) 3 & 4 are where I see the juice
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
nobody: me: so... about that attempt to replace "kill two birds with one stone" with "feed two birds with one scone" ..…
Replying to @ChasingMyself
@ChasingMyself nice I was sorta feeling like there had to be a good answer something like this, vaguely like the Half Plus Seven rule
@hmmmcurious hmmm yeah maybe. I haven't actually looked into the technical details of what happened in a lot of depth
sometimes I talk to people about their relationships and help them untangle stuff am I allowed to call that couples counselling or is that a protected term like "therapy"? (I may not WANT to call it that, for other reasons, but that's a separate Q)
@acidshill plz explain these modes
@sidbendu @acidshill adversarial collaboration incoming
@briandavidhall malcolmocean.com/newsletter/ & complice.co/newsletter if you want 'em
@timheiler you would think that but a few searches yielded mostly noise so I decided to lazyweb instead
Thread · Three steps for empowered dialogue · 1 of 5 tweets
oh I already tweeted the steps! this tweet also shares a video where I talk about this
@harmonylion1 I'd love to hear about it! here's a short thread on some very adjacent thoughts:
@andrew0blevins haha nice remix
@forthrighter makes sense! that's kinda vaguely what I figured yes I go to great lengths to make sure my clients never assume I'm qualified in any particular way, let alone certified
@m_ashcroft @DRMacIver that's what it's for. pithy QTables are where it's at!
@thetracebrady @palmerish @visakanv the main one I'm particularly familiar with is the tendency to recursively bite off more than one can chew and to treat many things as if they're gonna happen in an attempt to get an upward spiral of buy-in going, then hiding or panicking when there isn't actually enough buy-in
Replying to @keykickkid
@ropmur_bicbus fyeah! well, you've come to the right place. also I've been thinking about solopreneurs/indiehackers as one great potential target market for complice.co, so I'd love to get your feedback on how the site (landing page or app itself) does or doesn't appeal to you
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos say moooooore I want to hear about dis
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@toomuchincosmos mmmm reminded me of this tweet I have thoughts
@this_is_silvia as a kid I wanted to be an inventor, and I can imagine my life having become a lot more makery/tinkery there's one adjacent timeline where I'm a kind of digital nomad guy (@levelsio archetype) there's probably another where me being a musician is in the foreground
today I interacted with Pro Tools (a DAW 🎶🎧🎼) a very tiny amount, while listening to one of @utotranslucence's songs I tracked that as progress towards my music goal because even though tiny, highlighting it increases salience of path
if it ever feels like someone is asking you to surrender/deny/negate your own perspectives/preferences... ...consider that perhaps they just want *theirs* heard & understood and that your inability to do both at once is a skill-gap on your part, not an absurd demand on theirs
it continues to be so clear that McGilchrist's @divided_brain model is relevant to @wakingup > a mind that shatters the world with concepts, the concept of self and other, above all ift.tt/LzZK1T0
a take on how @bmndr can be non-coercive 🐝 it seems to me that in some sense what it does is mark the reality of the passage of time, with reference to this particular area of your life... and yeah, creating a tighter feedback loop that has real (though arbitrary) consequences
@kalinh true, or listening and reflecting people's perspectives so they're heard I think I am providing something really important in terms of the other 50% though! trust-dancing facilitation, essentially. noticing & untangling places where they're systematically not seeing each other
@thehighpony yeah the other day I read a paper highlighting 7 challenges and solutions and my notetaking was basically just my own thoughts on those. they definitely had some good questions!
@jaycousins seems likely! can you elaborate? what frames or processes do they offer for it?
Retweeted @timheiler
Playing „hard to get“ like in „seemingly impossible to understand“... just for the wordplay.
incentives are one of the most important things to track but most attempts to affect them directly turn into reward and punishment and end up incentivizing deception or not getting caught instead
I was thinking about this today and I think the place to start with would be a podcast app, because then you can be solving content management & metadata puzzles while ignoring the content licensing problem for now tho ah, tough because mostly mobile, which has strict app review
in the wake of FTX… …would there be a way to implement a crypto trading platform based on actually using your private key to complete the transaction, not where you have to trust the org seems obvious but probably fees too high onchain atm
you are not as smart as You twitter.com/selentelechia/…
me when people are trying to give me marketing advice
kind of a vlog-style video, reflecting on some conversations I had last night after a potluck somehow weaving together a bunch of plausibly-unrelated things that are on my mind, from scaling my business to relevance realization youtube.com/watch?v=OFi_BZ…
So awkward to read a bio written in third person where the author bothers to say "she/her pronouns". Bruh, that was implied by the 4 times you used "her" and the 5 times you used "she". The whole point of pronouns is that they're supposed to fade into the background.
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
intentionality is a skill
do you want a monopoly on sales or a monopoly on goodwill?
zoom has an enablement team, which will be happy to enable 720p video on your account if you have Zoom Pro but you have to send a support request (thanks @aneeshm for the tip-off)
@MichaelGendler small talk is orientation for big talk doesn't have to stay there find the edges into something you're curious about, and explore might not even be *about* stuff but more on a vibe level
TIL that there was previously something (idk what but apparently it wasn't a demand curve) limiting the number of flights that could go between Canada & India is this true for other country pairs? how would I look it up?
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia @braintree0173 oh wow yeah I think I maybe only got 4-7 books in
Thread · "Nake" as a verb and nakedness as home · 1 of 6 tweets
Update: in the year ish since this thread, I've continued to remember the word "nake", and I've used it a handful of times, but I haven't done much towards making it a thing
@captain_mrs I'm pretty sure I had a tweet awhile back encouraging people to RT tweets they come across and like even if they're your own old tweets it's kinda cringe to RT a day or two later, but when an old banger hits fresh, fuckyeah! it's practically your *duty* to re-curate it!
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
the other day someone told me a story about their side of an interaction we’d had a year ago that was an acute reminde…
@speakerjohnash @RichDecibels hmmm
reading Thomas Sowell's A Conflict Of Visions is amazing. every page is a giant hit of
@jambarree @aneeshm My guess is that if the other participants have bandwidth throttling on mobile it'd behave sanely but I don't actually know, hmm
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 50 - vlog, ramble definitely talking about stuff but not in a particularly directed way
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
Two psychologically useful views in conflict: a. Time is precious, use it wisely b. Slow down, you have all the time in…
@AnneSelke @wollekob I'm intrigued!
@made_in_cosmos @TylerAlterman in other words, don't be
@andy_matuschak somehow feels related twitter.com/selentelechia/…
@relic_radiation You create your reality like you create your dinner: with the ingredients and recipes you get from society
@made_in_cosmos she was involved in FTX
Retweeted @AskYatharth
“the biggest difference in people is those who have sold something on a market for their livelihood and those who haven’t”
one of the weird effects of dogfooding an intentionality app is that I sometimes get distracted INTO fixing complice.co I'll be intending to be working on something else and I encounter a bug and decide to opportunistically investigate it while it's there
just whipped up a list of different types of distractions on my roamblog. intending to write it up more thoroughly at some point but for now here are some screenshots some internal, some external, some meta roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
the power of choice me: amazon, I want a standing desk mat amazon: cool how about this one that's on sale for $15 me: simple, black, ★★★★⯨... I'll take it! amazon: great, which color? we have 8 me: amazon: me: amazon: me: amazon: me: ...I guess I'll go tweet about this.
@cecile_mcm if I may be so bold... the goal-crafting intensives! we're running more soon actually: complice.co/event/gci?tw=M… here's a testimonial 😜
funny context to this: "deboost" is a term from rocketry (slowing a spacecraft) that Elon used to refer to what twitter is going to do to hateful tweets—they'd still be shown on the platform if you look for them, just not amplified
this is a very good sign in terms of twitter the platform coming to grok the power of upward spirals!
and is part of why it's exciting that twitter is pulling away from ad revenue, because it means it can optimize for things other than keeping people addicted via the toxoplasma of rage
still lots of huge puzzles, including the question of how to figure out what counts as hateful, but it's progress along this one dimension at least
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia I like it but I don't have more opinions than that
@mechanical_monk have you gotten much in the way of ko-fi tips?
just used listfollowers.com by @mechanical_monk to find out that I have ~480 mutuals—a pretty impressive fraction of the ~800 people I'm following probably a bit too high actually... guessing that 30-50% would be better.
@dan_abramov I recently discovered that someone came up with a remarkably simple algorithm for avoiding the possibility of losing stuff like this! github.com/zaboople/klonk…
many apparent contradictions are due to equivocating between different perspectives—sometimes even different *types* of perspectives
@madaastronaut don't hold companies you don't believe in
Retweeted @bryankam
I had a great conversation with @Malcolm_Ocean yesterday. We discussed #intentionality, #attention, #meditation, systems thin…
@AskYatharth @phallusoraptors yup meta-protocol but for masculinity
@relic_radiation @RomeoStevens76 @Morphenius neat. yeah, at this point I expect at some point I'll learn how to play around with this
Retweeted @christineist
today I am reading about full fractal buy in a la @Malcolm_Ocean Ties in with a few other interesting ideas I've come a…
@uberstuber yo this actually sounds awesome
@aleksil79 what part of "everything" didn't you understand? 🤘
@m_ashcroft @SurenVynn yeah it's really not ideal for several reasons, but it's totally a thing. well, a nebulous emergent process, more than a thing
Retweeted @clarityscape
two distinct kinds of psychological safety: - one where you negotiate a social container so you can achieve everything yo…
@Insect_Song @literalbanana 😁 yeah I'm super proud of my If By If By Whiskey thread glad you meet a kindred spirit and I'd be curious how you would phrase yours!
> Try to climb down the ladder to a place of shared experience. > Then climb back up theirs to understand the language and models they use to describe that experience.
@AskYatharth oh absolutely
Retweeted @justavagrant_
i'm coming to the growing realization that self connection (NVC) or self validation is a core life skill …
most of good decision-making is finding more affordances most of conflict-resolution is finding win-wins
@daemonhugger I'm still working on learning how to think that way, tbh! but it is helping. it seems like the essence of noncoercive marketing.
Replying to @keykickkid
@ropmur_bicbus wow, very useful feedback! I haven't had the sense that podcasts have been particularly good for my marketing, so I'm glad to discover a counterexample and I've also been wondering if that final section is weirdly pushy. I think different people project different tones onto it
@ropmur_bicbus anyway, exciting. you might try the beeminder integration for consistency! blog.beeminder.com/complice/
@benpence use the dot menu & tell twitter you want to see less of that shit
edge of collective consciousness, this
@deepfates I see what you did there (and yes I'm with you on that)
twitter will be okay in the end if it's not okay, it's not the end
swiped from @relic_radiation for future QTing
@TylerAlterman I'd recommend people try it, and also that they seriously consider they might not stick with it I'm a former poly person oriented towards monogamy, but I have trouble imagining being with someone who takes monogamy for granted
@christineist and if in fact things are ACTUALLY so urgent & important then usually you will not be so conflicted & if you are still super conflicted, but "do nothing" is clearly worse than "pick anything", then maybe there's a move like "X or Y... X! Y-part, we'll make it up to you later!"
Retweeted @blankbreaks
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@s0ulDirect0r fucking love my mind always have
Very satisfying to see someone else do a thread on one of my ideas! It's like "yeah, she gets it!"
@meekaale @schwarz_seher @utotranslucence this is relevant to your work too. would be interesting to study how these results with depression compare to mania &/ psychosis
@m_ashcroft hmmmmmmm we've been doing this a bit with the GCI emails, and maybe we should stop or otherwise rework things some of the Complice auto-emails I used to send out manually ("want us to mail you a sticker?") even tho I pasted the message body, and names there feel right somehow
Thread · Refusing the hypothetical button · 1 of 4 tweets
I do not push the button
@exGenesis you're gonna love meditationbook.page by @meditationstuff
realized one way to think of BioEmotive is that it's like trying to find the resonant frequency of a system like humming different pitches in a stairwell and noticing that one of them is really loud instead: try on different feeling words & notice which ones make you sob 😭😎
@visakanv the range of possibilities people have is larger than the range that they think that they have the range that WE think that they have is somewhere in between
"improvises [...] with a special focus on treating the past as a bag of gifts to be utilized creatively" is a beautiful articulation of exaptation, the evolutionary principle by which things developed for one purpose get reused for another
@meekaale have you seen this video? curious how it dovetails with what you're saying there. youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
I'm also struck by the first few episodes of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, describing the judeo-christian god as the god of progress & change—"I will be what I will be". The god of conscious evolution!
embarrassing that as a society we haven't managed to get on the same page about whether ctrl+k is "add hyperlink" or "open quick action search"
@GSto yeah, anywhere that links can be
ahh cool to find this again months later, now that I have in fact shifted from framing complice.co as a "productivity app" to an "intentionality app"
huh—I changed it on the homepage but there are still many references to "productivity" in the user-facing text elsewhere in the codebase (explainers, emails, etc) in some cases easy enough to swap "productive" for "intentional" but in others the whole frame is kinda wack.
@w1nt3r_eth disadvantage short-term, advantage long-term tho the puzzle of how to survive the short-term is a real puzzle
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos Wow wtf. Incredibly short-sighted. Hard to know what to say without knowing a lot more context. Not too late for him to learn to cook though. Probably there's a YouTube series for people in exactly this sort of situation.
@lisatomic5 distancing from someone or something that's about to take a status hit
@JakeOrthwein I've been exploring a bunch with @utotranslucence the "what if religion but good tho" question, and ummm yup. Definitely needs to evoke this kind of awe. I feel like I can sense some of the direction...
@TylerAlterman @hormeze or @jameswjesso, any takes on how ketamine works?
@captain_mrs Probably partially cued by your following tweet to consider cultural things, but I legit love maple syrup—pancakes, french toast, oatmeal, milk. My extended family had a sugar shack. Also wild blueberries, which basically only grow in the area I grew up in. And ofc chocolate.
Retweeted @growing_daniel
This is a detailed list of tweaks and bug fixes I would make to the Twitter UI. Mostly posting as self therapy as someo…
@myceliummage I just checked out a Catholic Mass this morning for the first time and it also seemed a bit Jesus-overindexed.
@myceliummage yeah I mean I think people don't get it needs more proof of work tbh
@MattiasInSpace probably a better answer if I reflected on it longer, but here's one for now: youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1…
in the same way that it's wasteful to drive with the handbrake on —it might work, but you get worse results at greater energy cost— it's wasteful to try to do things in the face of inner resistance
exciting. I didn't realize pol.is was one of the inspirations for community notes already. this has the potential to be HUGE. wired.co.uk/article/elon-m…
@gptbrooke yep pay deep attention to what's important and neglected, and also notice where your attention gravitates truly seeing that something important is neglected IS motivating, but different things will still motivate different people
that doesn't mean it's DEFINITELY a bad idea to drive with the handbrake on. if you've gotta get to the hospital & brake is stuck, but it's drivable, then you choose how much time you want to spend troubleshooting before just driving—all power* to you! *except power wasted 😅
@gptbrooke and if you've got resistance when you try to work on something important and neglected, then that means some part of you thinks it's a bad bet or that something else matters more, whether for the world or for yourself you're free to try anyway
@gptbrooke different people have dramatically different ideas about the extent to which it's possible for your whole cognitive/motivational system to integratedly understand things like xrisk, rather than having to override parts that don't get it I'm in the "absolutely 100% possible" camp
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
I want to find the things that are worth doing & where it'd be harder for me NOT to do them than to do them.
Thread · Using willpower to override unconflicted autopilots
a thing I use willpower for: overriding unconflicted autopilots I started grabbing a snack on the way to pee, & years later sometimes I go grab a snack and get back to my room & realize my bladder's still full 🤦♀️ I'm now committing to completing bathroom trips before any snack
if I find myself strugging to uphold this commitment, THEN I'll consider that I must have some sort of inner conflict about it, and seek to figure out what it is but as far as I can tell, even time I notice this it's just hilarious & obvious that I want to do something different
the thing is, it does require an active will towards bothering to notice, the same way that someone who moves needs to pay a different kind of attention on their commute so they don't accidentally drive to their old home instead of their new one
often my awareness kicks in when I'm reaching for chocolate etc so the new practice is: - inhibit that at whatever phase - check if my bladder's full, and if so: - leave the snack - go pee - return to what I was doing then maybe some minutes later true hunger will be obvious
so this is the thing I'm using willpower & commitment for: bringing extra attention to override the old default while I develop a new autopilot I'd love to hear your thoughts, whether or not you also tend to use non willpower/commitment approaches
@gptbrooke (to say what feels obvious but probably needs to be said: 100% possible doesn't mean everyone should do it, or that anyone already knows how to do it. but it's the overall approach I'm taking, which I sometimes call full-fractal buy-in)
@ungatedcreative @jonathancarson_ in the meantime Jonathan you might dig some of my writing on trust, which also is oriented towards non-coercion etc eg malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
looking at @TextsHQ and genuinely not sure if I'd love it or hate it. on the one hand I'm annoyed that there's no single standard message system like for email 😑 on the other hand... I do a lot of gatekeeping of who can message me where and which apps actually notify 😎
@ungatedcreative @TextsHQ hmmmm maybe I want this? hmm
Me & @utotranslucence hanging out with @anielsen108 & his daughter 🥰 We ate weird fruit and talked about vajrayana & school & power dynamics & fame &+ I like having friends of all ages.
@relic_radiation based
@p_millerd Huh like you're seeing a serious dip in engagement with TPP?
Replying to @gnopercept
@gnopercept Do I have free will or is it more like "buy one get one free" will?
@nopranablem @TextsHQ Based on this 👇 I'll take an invite!
@visakanv Boss. Stoked to try this at some point.
@gptbrooke Oooh this seems fun!
anything that's not self-paced is going to be either overwhelming or boring for most people
unless I guess you've managed to sort people perfectly by cohorts of existing skill level AND you can continually re-sort people as certain folks find step 3 more challenging than step 2 and vice versa
Retweeted @meekaale
electronic devices use bright light to keep you hooked there’s a light in everything, that’s how the crack gets in
More goal-crafting workshops coming up! Dec 18 and January 7, 8, 14, 15 Get tickets now at complice.co/event/gci?tw=m… or watch the video below to get a sense of what it's all about:
if you'd rather read a giant maze of twitter threads about it, we have that too!
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
where are you optimizing for appearances and how could you move a little more towards optimizing for alignment?
people are wiser than they think, if they'd take the time to use their wisdom
Thread · Making an appointment with your own wisdom
most people have had the experience of being able to articulate advice that they themselves do not follow, even though it applies to their situation as well
usually this implies that there’s some sort of internal conflict present—a competing commitment that gets in the way of doing the thing that the person might consider reasonable
but sometimes it's more a matter of simply not taking the time to apply your own wisdom to your own situation. your friend came to you asking for help, maybe, but you're too stuck in the weeds the solution: make an appointment with your own wisdom
put an event on your calendar, and treat it with the respect you’d give any other appointment which is to say: show up or, if for some reason it turns out you can’t, then reschedule for the nearest appropriate time
then, when the time comes, take your own advice. You can do this literally—consider what advice you’d give a friend in your situation, then do that—or you can just do the obvious thing
you can do this with specific object-level situations, eg “I need to get around to submitting that application” or with more abstract things like “I really should take more time to reflect on my life.”
tip 1: get clear on what the plan is once the appointment starts, don't take more than 5 minutes to figure out how you're going to spend it you don't need to have a perfect plan, you just need a decent one
tip 2: make an appointment with someone else if there's a chance you simply might not show up, put a time on the calendar with a friend. you'll still mostly introspect during the hour, but having social accountability will make it happen at all
the overall principle:
a case study: our GCI workshops we've been running Goal-Crafting Intensives for the last 5 years or so: an online workshop where people take a few hours to strategize about their year people say the videos & exercises are great—they are! dense & powerful twitter.com/BenRatkaj/stat…
people also say the live coaching is great and it is—we know our stuff and we're prepared to improvise
those aspects are great, but it's easy to focus on these and miss how much of the power of the event comes from the container the most important part of the workshop isn't the content, it's that the person sets aside 5 hours to be strategic, and shows up twitter.com/abhayance/stat…
if I imagine two ppl… Allie buys the presentation videos and the handbook plus the ability to get some chat-based coaching. Barry buys a ticket to “Open Goal Setting Afternoon” which is just a 5-hour solo-work context of some sort. who has the better year? my money's on Barry!
Allie would probably never actually open the handbook at all, let alone watch the videos. and even if she did, she would be likely to read it partway and then say, “hmm yeah I really should do these exercises” …but still not actually do them. or give up before getting anywhere
whereas Barry, who only has his own advice to take, is at least taking the time to do the best he knows how to do. and that's what counts. that's why even tho the GCI is 5h long, it's mostly not made of presentations, it's made of work sessions
and as of a few years ago, the whole workshop itself is self-paced, which is vital to allow it to blow the minds of a huge range of people: - seasoned productivity nerds who think they've seen it all - those totally new to the world of intentionality - &+
our workshop format a best-of-both-worlds combo of self-paced and cohort-based. and honestly multi-week cohort things are still really easy to end up bailing on compared to a single workshop session
as you may have guessed, we have more workshop sessions coming up so if you want to set aside 5h in which to remix your own wisdom with our suggestions, sign up here! it's pay-what-you-want, so it's hard to waste money on it complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
if you're someone with a course or training to offer and you'd like to learn more about how to run something with this magical best-of-both-worlds structure, you can read more about that here: (& lmk if you want help with that)
@meekaale @CompliceGoals just came across this again—I'd love to record a short call jamming on such principles and post it to youtube
@AbstractFairy I was searching for old tweets about the GCI workshops and as a result I found both this 👆 and this 👇 at the same time, which made me want to plug them together
@ungatedcreative @NatCouropmitree I reflected on some related topics here, about how while Complice is clearly an app not a person, it does sort of scale my vibe, partially through clever if-then logic tho I guess emails are ambiguous whether a real person sent them, whereas an app is not youtu.be/OFi_BZfbQ7Y
@etiennefd ooh, what made the difference?
Retweeted @eshear
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that if you find yourself thinking, "oh fuck not that guy again", the real downvote f…
@AskYatharth haha what? 😅
@jackinlondon yeah we always make sure to have times that work around the world it's rough in India tho where one of the events starts really early morning and the other goes late into the night, but! those people can do 2nd half of one, spend the day working solo, then 1st half of the other
@AskYatharth this thread was adapted/remixed from a blog post I wrote 5y ago called Make An Appointment With Your Saner Self, but that frame seemed weird now in retrospect I probably should have put the new phrase as the top banger tweet once I found it ...oops
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because applying any advice without thinking about it is hard. especially your own gotta actually have containers to appl…
bored/bleh on twitter? here's a game to play 🙃 think of a topic that feels relevant to you 🧐 then twitter-search with this ⬇️ filter:follows collect tweets that interest you until you find a link to make between two of them or get inspired to thread 💡
@etiennefd haha sure but I was looking for deets, examples, fav passages, etc
@AskYatharth ah good point, it should go in the zoo
@georgejrjrjr @DAtD_life @Plinz @gnomicperfect I've started on the sequel but I'm only 6% of the way through. it's good so far tho! but yeah, it's a bit weird. like PCT, it's still got a reactionary energy. hopefully it can get integrated into views that aren't so reactionary.
@Prigoose @gptbrooke @EthanReeder that seems fun! I think it requires more than just "show up sometime" since the reality is that sometimes you'll be out or whatever so yeah, someone pick a date/time. fridays seem not-bad
@PlaneHarvester some. always more to find and always more clarity & precision to have. eg what I talk about in this vid, where seeing what your loose colleagues are doing elsewhere in the network makes it more clear what's yours to do youtu.be/X6HM7LYkiUA
@PlaneHarvester if you want to see a bit of me reflecting on what my subproject is, you can go here: youtube.com/watch?v=NeN34r…
@lisatomic5 (it also participates in creating the status hit, ofc)
@exGenesis @meditationstuff do iiiiit it's so good
@GSto plaintext tho
@strangestloop 😜 tho I linked it not just for the pun value but because it seemed to me that it actually might be the sort of thing I'd find interesting if I were in a "nothing feels relevant" mood
often when people talk about "letting go of hope", they actually mean "grasping hopelessness" ~@Morphenius
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@AbhayPrasanna Beautiful, yes. Also: May each aspect's apparent resistance to dialogue be seen as it standing for the…
@elonmusk @WSJ @WSJopinion @AllysiaFinley @CommunityNotes I can't view the notes. is that because my account is canadian? I'm in the US atm, if that's relevant
twitter's flatness is deeply core to its spirit
@elonmusk @catturd2 "haters are fans too" — @kanyewest
so annoyed at chatbots or forms that solicit information from you before they'll let you talk to a human, and then the human acts like they don't have that information (maybe they don't!?) yesterday had to type it at TWO STEPS and the agent was then like "how can I help?" 😑
@monotremism I appreciate it, thanks!
notice when impossible urgency arises twitter.com/s_r_constantin…
Retweeted @p_millerd
Step 8: Create & Share @thefirejar helped me create this graphic and is a great example of someone genuinely sharing his cr…
@RichDecibels I answered "med" as an assessment of like *this moment* but on a days/weeks timescale it's one of the highest it's been
@TylerAlterman allow yourself to die in this moment
@p_millerd hey Paul, what if we ran a GCI-style online workshop but oriented around Pathless Path frames in particular? could have some other feral free agents show up as coaches to share their experiences (context on the structure if you're not familiar)
@etiennefd whoa fuckyeah, very interesting I wonder if this would be relevant for @jasoncbenn's neighborhood project relatedly, it also reminds me of Civium and the book Scale
@gnomicperfect @georgejrjrjr @DAtD_life @Plinz I'm not attached to "reactionary"... but yeah, what do I mean? basically that it's in a position of constantly attacking the thing that it emerged as a critique of, which is insecure eg this essay "PCT—Yeah? So What?!" is mostly anti-behaviorism web.archive.org/web/2021042015…
@gnomicperfect @georgejrjrjr @DAtD_life @Plinz whereas king energy would just be directly relating PCT in its own terms, not as a *reaction* against behaviorism (even though that's where it came from) and insofar as it needed to correct misconceptions, it could do that more directly/experientially
@ungatedcreative @jonathancarson_ I'd love to record a short video convo talking about trust in marketing or something, idk. I feel like there's lots for us to jam about
@ricvolpe that seems broadly good, although I'm a bit worried about how to handle data-structure divergence in the context of federation like suppose one platform wants to limit discrete tweets/toots/etcs to 280 characters but that seems like an issue that'll come up in any case, so hmmm
@AskYatharth If already well-rested, one-off use of stimulants can help you hit a level of performance that you can't hit otherwise, to tackle creative challenges. Naps don't do that afaict—speaking as someone who's taken thousands!
@visakanv @nat_sharpe_ *and* I am under the impression that not forgiving myself is necessary or helpful for causing my future behavior to change
Retweeted @corymuscara
16. Sometimes we need to get out of alignment with the rest of the world to get back into alignment with ourselves. 17. R…
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ Doing the Lord's work Nat 🙏
@smallkewlhuman playfully explore power in a way that touches the part of him that wants to be treated like scum, without in any way actually engaging in contempt for him or doing anything that feels wrong for her to do
@magicianbrain fuck talk dance stretch go for a walk listen to a podcast make music meditate think about stuff bathe
@__drewface So many levels on which I could answer that. 1. Helping other people discover & enact their answers (complice.co) 2. Untangling distrusts and emerging ecstatic human superorganisms 3. Surfing the forefront of the evolution of consciousness 4. Nurturing a family 5. 🎶
@EyalShay2 Meanwhile @nat_sharpe_ is going around forgiving everyone
@ReneeSolana @AskYatharth What are these from??
@natural_hazard figuring out how to grow complice.co
Retweeted @goblinodds
spent the weekend with a bunch of highly agentic people and now i've got a bunch of thoughts about agency
@made_in_cosmos Yeah hitting a pillow is super unsatisfying unless you have a racket or paddle to hit it with. Smacking a pillow into the floor is better, tho idk how that would work for a toddler. Might need a smaller pillow.
Very cool thread. Really useful separation of concerns, clarifying self-other boundaries, and making space for someone's learning process to not be instant.
@graceinalI I'm pretty happy with the people I follow on this front. Another approach is just to follow people who's replies you like on the tweets you *are* enjoying. At least as important is *unfollowing* the people whose vibes you don't like.
Wild. It makes it look like the rest of my screen isn't at full brightness. twitter.com/SteveStuWill/s…
@drewcoffman @ReadwiseReader @readwise @browsercompany @memexgarden is another system for this!
@ungatedcreative @kcorazo @m_ashcroft I like a model I got from @TadHargrave, of giving away free stuff ("pink spoon" sampler in ice cream shop metaphor) then having an obvious next thing to get if you like that, then deeper offerings. There's something to test around making sure the path works well at each step.
@ReneeSolana I mean
Retweeted @pee_zombie
tiktok is more traditional than whatever else you think the youff should be doing
@Morphenius Can tell, tho can't necessarily articulate. I feel I see your shape but I'm not sure I can put better words to it than you already have.
the correct response to someone presenting you with the trolley problem
"if you're not ouiji-boarding immediately, you're wasting time"
irrational fear? right, of course, you know it's irrational because it's not appropriate to the situation ...the situation as *you're* perceiving it. have you tried asking the fear what situation *it* thinks it's in?
very trippy question. idk what to do with the poll (feels like the rabbit/duck illusion tbh) but I recommend playing around until you can see it both ways twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/st…
@RichDecibels tagging @utotranslucence because this is very relevant to psychcrisis.org
I remember as a kid an encyclopedia that had this classification system in it (I grew up in a small town with no TV so it might have been one of my only exposures to the concept of different races at that point) my guess is our current models will look similarly absurd in 50y twitter.com/jardinsecret88…
@magnusalban @RichDecibels and often people will tend to try to *argue* with that part and say "look, that's not all there is to life" this is a counteractive approach—understandable, since you don't want to seem to be encouraging the suicidality—but, it's still a deep rejection
@bonkydog @VahnAeris @RichDecibels gotta share this again
@kureshii_ right but the circle looks brighter than the white block on the right (to me at least)
> If you fail to identify and analyze the obstacles, you don’t have a strategy. Instead, you have either a stretch goal, a budget, or a list of things you wish would happen. — Good Strategy / Bad Strategy, by Richard Rumelt
@Evolving_Ego yeah "all possible" is a failure of relevance realization
what's the most psychoactive essay / paper / blog post you've read this year?
@RichDecibels When I was about 20 I realized that the feeling I had about how my little sister treated me when we were young was basically identical to how I felt towards a couple of people who had bullied me, except with her it was daily/weekly for years and inescapable. Intentional torment.
@BecomingCritter I teach that teaching is impossible, there's only showing
@jonathancarson_ I've been digging @snipd_app—it has some auto table-of-contents'ing features and the ability to easily tag or share a subsection (snip) of the podcast, which is an obvious thing I haven't seen elsewhere.
Retweeted @utotranslucence
when I ask myself why I love my partner, I always get one of two answers: 1) irreplaceably deep, soul-level, paradigm…
@meekaale @nickcammarata Ha! I knew it! Nick's secret is having 3 nipples. ....seriously this is amazing tho.
Retweeted @meekaale
I decided to make a version that's not about books but about shorter pieces
@meekaale wow! I'd love to know how you described it
there's no clean boundary between "productivity apps" & "intentionality apps", but the frame of what something is matters a lot. a cafe and a bar are a very different context even if they both sell coffee & booze. #MetaphorsMatter
@DaveCBeck @ungatedcreative took 9 months but I finally did it! here's a thread of some of the changes
Retweeted @sheilalina
this whole thread is excellent. i came from a gtd list system and always felt off. like i couldn’t get “current.” the c…
What amazing aspect of your life are you taking for granted? Can you imagine a world where it's a rare exotic luxury? twitter.com/CatsOfYore/sta…
I read an article 1-2y ago that was talking about how social support for single mothers (introduced in the 60s or something) meant that some demographics stopped trying to marry at all. I can't find it, which is annoying when I want to cite or reference it.
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
I'm removing the word "productivity" from all of the in-app text, after having an identity shift from being a productivi…
Retweeted @visakanv
tiktok invented dabloons and tumblr memed a whole non-existent movie fandom into existence. c’mon twitter what are we doing
beautiful take on high-involvement & high-considerateness conversation styles and yes, it's possible to become a wizard fluent in both ift.tt/aCOUFnV
turns out RTs have their own urls/tweetids, I found out when I managed to find one of @RomeoStevens76 's tweets only via google search, and it was a RT by @harrisonpartch twitter.com/harrisonpartch…
Replying to @jstanotherview
yo @realGeorgeHotz, sometimes search is case-sensitive apparently this is absurd. not sure how to fix, probably some weird caching bug
meanwhile `romeostevens76 ice cream`, whatever the case, misses the main tweet I was looking for—in this case I know the pattern: the results that show up are all *replies* to Romeo, whose bodies implicitly contain his handle for some legacy reason. but seems bad ux.
relevance is relevant
"that which can be destroyed by the truth" delenda est
thanks for the inspiration @nat_sharpe_ twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/st…
@arabelladevine I also kind of found it simplistic, but it definitely points at different norm attractors & assumptions. I'm not sure what you're getting/missing... I have a video riffing on the same general idea and speculating about another mode:
@CarnunMP *exactly*
@meekaale wow! yeah I see how my hands & head are kinda getting into that hyperbolic space
@AbstractFairy yup! & definitely check this out if you haven't seen it:
@sashintweets might have been ~poor black women? was definitely america-centric
@RichDecibels yeah we're on good terms now going to boarding school helped, in part because I went 2y before her (I'm 2y older) and in part because it just meant more space we even hung out a bit & made music together at school then as adults stuff is chill we've talked about the torment too
Retweeted @Evolving_Ego
@Malcolm_Ocean That said, I have noticed that often, when I find myself procrastinating, it's because I'm unconsciously w…
@thisisdanguerra loving this deep-dive energy and nerdposting
@rajlearns @ftlsid the notion of creating a reward for something you want inherently goodharts what you actually want to do to get more out of your life (afaict) is to pay more attention to all of the impacts (wanted & unwanted) of everything you do. notice how things satisfy you or not
@natural_hazard wow me neither this is great. good work summoning it xD
@Voraciousarchi1 yeah, or in candlelight or in the dim amount of streetlight coming through the window or in the dim glow of a red LED nightlight (these are awesome) amazon.com/Efficient-Nigh…
@Urbion6 @toucansunrise not as easy as it should be though because almost nothing is actually designed like nobody considered this use-case
@toucansunrise another approach might be "ok Amazoogliri, play Joe Rogan's interview with Jack Dorsey on Spotify" and it would play it
Replying to @Slplss_In_Japan
@Slplss_In_Japan my impression is that dopaminergic stimulants help less with creativity than eg caffeine, which works on the adenosine system that's more about wakefulness and less about motivation but also sometimes creativity is bottlenecked on persistence, in which case dopamine may help
@deevbrain @made_in_cosmos I think people told me to punch a pillow, not to slap a pillow. that may have been the issue
Replying to @HiredThought
@HiredThought "I'm sad about impermanence but better sooner & greater loss that I control than possible loss out of my control later"? your article say why you're leaving, but not why you're deleting don't burn your books; we'd like to keep learning from you!
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ were you the one who shared the article about how unscientific the us govt race categories are? I've been having trouble finding it again keywords ethnicity scientific cdc hispanic language categories census affirmative action
@AskYatharth mostly writing or coding
I've been getting this sense from talking to users that part of the role of Complice is that it facilitates a *learning process* around becoming more intentional
@justavagrant_ probably this one malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
@p_millerd I'm curious what you think of Michael O Church's model of 3 different class ladders (labor, gentry, elite)... it seems to me MBAs are probably associated with elite, which makes gentry distrust them—as a category. Lots of individuals fine. indiepf.com/michael-o-chur…
@p_millerd Fuckyeah. Let's have a call to talk about it!
Replying to @HiredThought
@HiredThought @JulieThinx You can also probably better point people over to those other platforms by leaving your stuff up and saying "now find me over here". Rather than disappearing.
thinking about how if you buy land, you pay some ongoing property tax to keep it and then you get the government defending your right to it is that cost remotely congruent with the the value you can gain (personal or profit) by keeping that land?
this apparent plausibility of this proof is an interesting sort-of-example of something like frame control not exactly frame control, but something adjacent
@ungatedcreative @JakeOrthwein @m_ashcroft guys this means yall need to have conversations in which you explain what the Same Thing is and then talk about how your approaches are complementary (I am down to get involved as well since I am also working on the Same Thing™) studio.youtube.com/video/X6HM7LYk…
on the occasion of black friday season, I'll note that our Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops are offered on a PWYW basis, so you can get whatever discount you need! seriously. sign up: complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
@m_ashcroft yeah, also it seems like shit is about to go up a major level of abstraction for the first time in decades
@relic_radiation are you suggesting we'd hop on a call?
@harry_taussig @ungatedcreative @m_ashcroft @sivers @andy_matuschak @michael_nielsen ooooh nice, yeah, rather than bragging, talking about challenges. I've been enjoying doing that with Complice, like thinking out loud about feature design puzzles
@the_wilderless fucking stoked to hear about this I've just been starting to learn about the Axial Age from John Vervaeke's work
@elonmusk @getpaidwrite this is such a memetically unfit idea "the people who disagree with me shall inherit the earth"
some brief thoughts on money & strategy:
@relic_radiation yeah that was my thought, seems like a better in-person thing maybe if we're both in the bay at some point!
Retweeted @saul_mondriaan
GRATITUDE IS "WOW," NOT "THANK YOU"
brilliant solution to the dating app incentive problem: have people pay to play matchmaker, not to get matched
@lisatomic5 @forshaper @made_in_cosmos cc @Morphenius who was talking about dating app incentive issues recently
@michael_nielsen I feel like I've learned in-depth stuff from listening to podcasts, particularly Daniel Thorson's Emerge and the related Game~B scene of podcasts, but it's mostly because the field I'm learning about IS about culture & trust, so hearing live conversations is a denser medium.
Thread · What non-coercive marketing actually looks like
reflecting on this I think that the concept of marketing I was rejecting was "telling people my thing is great and they should buy it", which makes sense—that's a pretty sketchy thing to do whereas telling people more about my thing so they can find OUT if they want to buy it...
...is how to do non-coercive marketing!
and also by building trust with people who can talk you up without an ulterior motive huh, I guess... people for whom the downside of you trying it and not liking it is similar-sized to the upside of you trying it and liking it...? that's not exactly it... 🤔
as @TadHargrave has put it: if I come up to you at a party and say "oh man, you should totally talk to me, I'm great" ...yikes. but if one of your friends comes up to you at a party and says "oh man, you should totally talk to Tad, he's great!" that's a great endorsement!
it's a disservice to your prospective customers not to give them the chance to find out that there's something that could make their life better twitter.com/MowgliPark/sta…
I wrote a post about my newish goal to grow Complice 3-10× over the next couple years, using non-coercive marketing. I'm intending to write about my process every step of the day, working with the garage door up. malcolmocean.com/2022/11/explor…
gratitude seems related to not taking things for granted
I wonder who is CEO of the most different companies
@DRMacIver for me it briefly tricked me by equivocating between prime and odd (which was, I suppose, the query) if the 2nd sentence started "if n is not odd", then achieving n=2(...)+1 would produce a contradiction
@kalinh oh to be clear I was attempting to be very Georgist about it 😅 it seems very likely to me that the cost of having your land protected is way too *cheap*, and this is why land prices skyrocket
@jambarree I asked my question poorly, apparently. I was supposed to say "is it a bargain or an absurdly good bargain?"
@AskYatharth @myceliummage > This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more Welp. Feel free to DM this to me Mage if you want. I'm curious what it was.
I'm very very much in favor of this way of thinking and... I struggle to apply it to flat earth: flat is intuitive, but have a video call with someone on another continent, & notice that the sun is up for them and on the horizon for you, therefore "up" is a different direction
@Morphenius @chercher_ai yeahhhhh
that's my go to "how to confirm round earth using your own experience, not taking anyone's word for it" but maybe they've never considered it. most round-earthers haven't! I'd enjoy talking to a flat earther and finding out what they might say if I pointed that out 😊
If there were a local-scene @FANswitchboard leaderboard, Jason would probably be at the top of it ❤️🔥
this is the worst case only if you're decent at explaining your views... otherwise the other side might find you useful as strawman fodder 😅
@jasoncbenn are you still helping people find places to rent/buy? or is that something where you realized you weren't adding that much overall?
@visakanv mindcity. might be one of the hardest to write, since it's sort of embedded in the structure, but would also help pitch people on the magic of *joining* twitter
Retweeted @visakanv
there are a lot of ways in which OP is wrong – (1) there are also some ways in which OP is right – (2) 1 feels good to y…
@visakanv hmmmmmmmmm might QT this a bunch later
@visakanv that's what I've been doing here writing about my resistances to marketing. I haven't figured it all out. I'm just sharing my experiences as I go! malcolmocean.com/2022/11/my-res…
@visakanv "any skill" is also a bit much
super cool thread the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed wouldn't be that hard to build an app to facilitate this for people
Great <1min audio clip from @WakingUp on intentionality dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/SMF38C4…
I can't say I'm *surprised*, but I'm disappointed how few these "exponential icon" search results are actually even plausibly exponential curves maaaaybe the blue one?
Wow, tickets for the December 18th session of the GCI are half sold already! ...which is convenient, since we have a lot more time to get people for the January ones. But I guess lots of people want to plan 2023 with us *before* the new year starts. complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
Thread · Why needing lots of communication signals teams are out of sync · 1 of 17 tweets
Aha, these actually map even closer than I thought! voice (remake the system from within) exit (leave and build something new) definitions from their original source (Hirschman, as quoted on wikipedia page on Balaji talking about The Network State)
so wait is @vibecamp_ before or after chillcamp?
(video not me ofc. it's by @GrantBeans) instagram.com/reel/CeozDQkgJ…
Retweeted @ctbeiser
a crucial reminder of the grand spiritual truth below georgism—nobody can truly be free until land is taxed. impeccable and…
@elonmusk To anyone arguing that this isn't a secret (including Community Notes 😅) the secret is that they're pretty aggressive about forcing any payments on iOS to be *via* them, EVEN IF the majority of your value comes from the network, not the nativeness of the app.
@elonmusk Imagine if your computer operating system tried to take 30% of all purchases you make on your computer. Now, Apple can't interfere with browser-based purchases, but they can (and allegedly *have*) made browser apps shittier to force more native apps. ∴
@elonmusk Personally I find app-based twitter on phones to be terrible. You can't open up multiple tabs to eg search for tweets to QT as replies. So I'm in favor of you telling Apple to suck it and pull Twitter if they want to. We can still use mobile.twitter.com & have a BETTER exp.
@sarthakgh Wait say more about the china card bit?
@webdevMason @utotranslucence not directly relevant to your work but probably worth having a pulse on in terms of larger cultural trends
@elonmusk If Apple makes an iPhone and someone makes a native app that would have no distribution and no ability to operate at all without Apple's tech, then Apple has earned the 30%. When a company happily selling web-based subs has to pay Apple 30% if someone buys via an iPhone? 🖕
I had some replies to Elon's tweet about Apple secretly taxing app-makers.
Retweeted @elonmusk
Did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their App Store?
@TimHarford Ripping out the daily list & rewriting is one of the hardest things for people to learn how to do, especially in digital systems where the list sticks around by default. Complice forces it—every day a new list based on goals. Similar to your approach! complice.co/?og=f2t
Retweeted @TimHarford
Just sharing this; I can't quite believe I've not thought of it before. Important To Do list innovation is the post-it note…
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@TimHarford Ripping out the daily list & rewriting is one of the hardest things for people to learn how to do, especiall…
@paulg I think most software creators haven't had the courage to actually force you to rip out yesterday's page & start fresh. As far as I know, my app Complice is the only one that does that. ...and my main competitor is paper 😅 complice.co/?og=f2t
@passionfingerz @Aella_Girl the thing is tho, it's not that devs/cos have to pay to have an app on iOS. well, they do but that costs $100 or whatever & I'm sure Twitter's happy to pay it the payment is a fraction of all billing via iOS, even tho tw's value is from network not apple
@visakanv I'll keep that in mind 😆 I kinda see what you mean. it's got that relatably mundane significant vibe
@VividVoid_ I'd be interested in talking with you about exploring an online workshop format if you're interested! I can never make it through courses.
@leahprime friendly reminder that your part of twitter is not my part of twitter is not anybody else's part of twitter there is no single "tpot"
quite surprised that people aren't moving *more* these days in higher income brackets, due to greater chances of finding a better job/partner/community in another city
Retweeted @jessicamalonso
If anything in the world except your dad tries to tell you what to do, you can just be like “you’re not my dad!” And i…
finally have a new avatar I think I'll keep for awhile, after cycling through a few this year @meekaale your creation was fun for a couple days but I'm in the mood to be a friendly face not a trippy hyperbolic color creature
Retweeted @dorkweeb
this thread is correct in observing that "bad people/beliefs sometimes masquerade as benign and use that to smuggle in noxiou…
Thread · How 'these parts of twitter' splinters into sub-scenes as it grows · 1 of 13 tweets
exactly this you can't introduce your friends to tpot. you can introduce them to the scene around *you*, and ultimately they'll end up with a yet-distinct scene around them
@interrogami great point I basically think the term "tpot" is counterproductive for this reason, and I have it muted and just periodically search it so I can comment on this level of abstraction
@TylerAlterman @elonmusk came here to ask that! vaguely thinking about how @jack needed vipassana in order to stay sane while running twitter maybe Elon uses vajrayana buddhism instead?
Replying to @lawnerdbarak
@lawnerdbarak @ryxcommar I thought this at first too but then I realized I was perceiving the numbers on the left side as the poll results when they're actually the labels
Thread · Refusing the hypothetical button · 1 of 4 tweets
I don't push the button even if in addition to the hypothetical button you have a hypothetical gun
if someone says something about "this part of twitter", check how many much overlap in followers you actually have before you assume they're talking about anything remotely relevant to you
the easy way to do this is that you can see on their profile how many of the people you follow are following them for a more accurate view, count intersection of mutuals using this tool listfollowers.com
@nickredmark never was
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot @kevin_bowen @Tjdriii doing the lord's work eigen
Thread · How 'these parts of twitter' splinters into sub-scenes as it grows · 1 of 13 tweets
on the contrary, nobody can confer tpot membership on anybody else you can say you're part of this part of twitter, where "this part" is the part around you the best anyone else can do is say you're part of *that* part of twitter
@chercher_ai @fiskadoro @forshaper do you want to get a bunch of volunteers to each pull subsets of the data using our api quotas, to make it take less time?
Replying to @MarginNotes8
@MarginNotes8 focus on increasing people's self-trust and ability to honor their own discomfort and distrust
"the root of most ruptures is a failed attempt to teach the other person something or a failed attempt to learn"
not sure original source, I got it from @jameswjesso but I think he was quoting someone else this article says something similar theschooloflife.com/article/on-rup…
to anybody saying that this gets refuted by some angledness of a waaay closer sun I'm pretty sure that if you had a live video call with people in 3-4 well-spaced timezones around the world, there'd be no way for the sun to do what it does on any variation of a flat earth
Retweeted @utotranslucence
@Malcolm_Ocean and I are adults so tonight we had ice cream for dinner and salad for dessert
@kalinh yeah I am confused about this. something about georgism seems profoundly right/true, yet it also seems likely to have some sort of repugnant result but it's not just about land prices back in line, it's about a whole shift in our relationship to everything
@relic_radiation @smestorp I have a blogpost on this now malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
@ElodesNL ahhh such a good point that's a bit like thinking you can't join weird sun twitter because you're not a sun which... fair! I guess it could take awhile to realize there's nobody orchestrating the whole thing
I talk a lot about untangling inner conflict and not trying to drive with the handbrake on here's me publicly walking the talk—there've been many reasons I've been hesitant to try to grow Complice, some about money and some about marketing malcolmocean.com/2022/11/my-res…
here's an example of some of the emotional logic I've been operating under:
just occurred to me that this is basically Paul Millerd's Pathless Path
hey @visakanv here's a novel that vibes on the Lennon/McCartney pattern, wrt video game development (review from @robinsloan)
hey @visakanv here's a novel that vibes on the Lennon/McCartney pattern, wrt video game development (review from @robinsloan) link: amzn.to/3iq6Sc1
new political spectrum diagram dropped, now in 3D source & elaboration & examples: medium.com/@even.aesphasi…
don't confuse someone being for or against something with them being for or against "something" we're not all labelling reality the same way
we can call crying "bustin' face"! brings back memories of #SobSquad 😭😎 smbc-comics.com/comic/counsel
great example of how unquestioned assumptions fuck up science people looking for gene-trait correlations assumed people mate randomly—they don't. correct for that, & correlations lessen or vanish ift.tt/WO02LxE
my guess is that they're asking if mindstuff evolved biologically, and concluding no this is half-correct! mindstuff did evolve, but thru memetic evolution which outpaces & outclasses bio twitter.com/datepsych/stat…
@grassyfndz yeah! it feels really spot on
@palmerish I have a thread where I elaborate on the metaphor a bit if you're interested! sometimes it's less handbrake and more tug-of-war, but yeah
@smestorp @relic_radiation yeah! Punished By Rewards and Alfie Kohn's other work has a lot of great stuff on this
> A long list of “things to do,” often mislabeled as “strategies” or “objectives,” is not a strategy. — Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
@nopranablem fucking love whosampled.com this will potentially blow your mind: youtube.com/watch?v=eVVfZA…
the butter
Retweeted @VividVoid_
If you had the experiences of people of the opposite sex, you would make the same decisions they do. You will stay trappe…
@awilkinson @khemaridh I had these two issues and ended up building Complice, a system that stays fresh even if you don't do the weekly review, rather than going stale check out the philosophy and tell me what you think! complice.co/philosophy
Thread · Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive · 1 of 18 tweets
We're running some more Goal-Crafting Intensives in Dec & Jan, so I'm going and adding a bunch more rave reviews to this thread! Come join us for a choose your own adventure workshop to nurture your intentionality: complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
Thread · Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive · 2 of 18 tweets
@groundedSAGE echoing what @m_ashcroft said: twitter.com/groundedSAGE/s…
Retweeted @blankbreaks
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Malcolm Ocean substack?
Thread · Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive · 1 of 18 tweets
@soundrotator @RahmSJ the ability to read instructions
@nopranablem (if it didn't blow your mind it's probably because you don't know the much-more-famous track that sampled it)
@AskYatharth ~Dec, Jan Feb for sure, March~ ie the classic solstice-til-equinox "astrological season", which is what I was taught = "when is there snow", based on growing up in Nova Scotia then living in Ontario (both Canada)
@ErgoEcho @TylerAlterman figured it'd be something like this. I feel like I can get the t phoneme by gently un-voicing my d phoneme without conceiving of myself as making a "T" sound ....and afaict this is how I've been pronouncing this particular chinese phrase the whole time! splitting the ambiguity
pay attention to how people pay attention
amazing thread. what do you have taste for? I'll do a few of mine below
sunsets as well, for sure. the colors, the gradients, the patterns one the side of the sky *opposite* the sun, the way certain trees or buildings silhouette, the way the light reflects in windows, the change in temperature since travelling, the speed
tactile buttons and knobs. knobfeel is real guys youtube.com/watch?v=Vm2eaK…
sangrias — this one's partially aspirational, but I'm refining my taste for them
people's patterns of attention. I've gotten a sense that the closest thing there is to an essential nature of someone is how they digest their sensory world what grabs their attention? what sustains it? what's relevant and why?
Retweeted @justavagrant_
@Malcolm_Ocean Yes! “It’s just that obviously, if you could have already mitigated a problem, with your existing knowled…
Thread · Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive · 1 of 18 tweets
not exactly a review but he's talking about a specific thing that he realized, which is cool to hear about!
I'd love to see a chart of how often each track from an album gets played, plotted by track order early tracks get played more often when someone hits play then stops partway... but later tracks get played more often when someone starts mid-album then listens to the end... hmm