| re-reading this intense venting thread from |
2026-08-13 |
6 |
68 |
0 |
| Airplane thoughts: theology, family, fatherhood, and vibecoding |
2026-08-03 |
11 |
21 |
0 |
| English's epistemic and co-epistemic status tags vs Láadan |
2026-07-10 |
7 |
29 |
0 |
| Trust versus faith in the unbreakable plate trick |
2026-04-25 |
12 |
104 |
2 |
| The 'mind is not me' frame and identity |
2026-01-21 |
7 |
15 |
0 |
| Rules, authority, and compliance in parenting |
2026-01-15 |
11 |
7 |
1 |
| Year-reflection and goal-setting workshops |
2025-12-29 |
6 |
15 |
2 |
| Perspective-taking as native skill versus trained compassion |
2025-12-25 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
| Corporations as black boxes and the incentive to build accountability sinks |
2025-11-13 |
8 |
12 |
0 |
| An LLM prompt for compressing writing into its core thesis |
2025-10-16 |
12 |
162 |
17 |
| Memory systems unconference and LLM-generated flashcards |
2025-09-23 |
16 |
27 |
3 |
| Cancer as a cell's trauma response and the separation story |
2025-09-22 |
8 |
14 |
0 |
| Does a newborn care how you vibe while bouncing them? |
2025-08-28 |
4 |
207 |
0 |
| If you build a prison out of rationality, the exits look like madness |
2025-08-07 |
5 |
1,323 |
148 |
| Auto-generated flashcards pull trivia instead of core insights |
2025-07-01 |
6 |
10 |
1 |
| Simulating the exterior of feelings without the interior |
2025-03-24 |
6 |
18 |
0 |
| Trying on strangers' postures and stances on a busy street |
2025-01-19 |
12 |
288 |
6 |
| Admitting I mostly hate the first four months of parenthood |
2024-12-12 |
21 |
3,997 |
120 |
| Looking for a word between public and private |
2024-09-05 |
6 |
86 |
2 |
| Marriage and kids as sources of manhood |
2024-09-05 |
4 |
50 |
0 |
| Loyalty as extended self, and its tension with integrity |
2024-08-29 |
7 |
32 |
2 |
| How to tell if someone will be good at parenting with you |
2024-08-29 |
9 |
112 |
1 |
| Inviting a newborn into the culture you actually have |
2024-08-29 |
8 |
30 |
0 |
| Why 'sin' doesn't mean 'miss the mark' |
2024-08-12 |
16 |
80 |
1 |
| Moral intuitions as symmetry intuitions, and reconciling epistemic frames |
2024-08-12 |
4 |
33 |
2 |
| Ask what someone meant before interpreting an upsetting remark |
2024-08-10 |
4 |
93 |
6 |
| Decoding the 'marry you but not hook up with you' chart |
2024-08-10 |
5 |
120 |
2 |
| Learning you have to put up with shit, then learning you don't |
2024-08-01 |
5 |
84 |
2 |
| Living inside a half-hearted choice as nonconsent with your life |
2024-07-30 |
9 |
545 |
40 |
| Gaslighting as lying against someone's direct experience |
2024-07-25 |
8 |
173 |
7 |
| "How am I relating to this?" as a way out of stuckness |
2024-07-22 |
9 |
39 |
3 |
| Verb-noun compounds like stopgap and pickpocket, and why they faded |
2024-07-16 |
7 |
311 |
16 |
| Context debt and what makes trust-building "too fast" |
2024-07-15 |
4 |
42 |
1 |
| Signs you're building fake trust with someone |
2024-07-15 |
4 |
74 |
5 |
| National Populism as a lens on Trump and Brexit |
2024-07-14 |
4 |
55 |
2 |
| Exaptation and the two meanings of purpose |
2024-07-09 |
16 |
49 |
5 |
| Watching RFK's answers to the Biden-Trump debate questions |
2024-07-07 |
10 |
24 |
0 |
| Dennett on language joining brains, and cognition at all scales |
2024-06-25 |
4 |
52 |
2 |
| Trying to find unbiased reporting on trans prison policy |
2024-05-27 |
25 |
145 |
3 |
| When meanness serves group boundaries, and how much is enough |
2024-05-23 |
5 |
35 |
1 |
| Two Gods: "everything" versus the supercooperation cluster |
2024-05-21 |
17 |
85 |
3 |
| Why the X rebrand is a worse name than Twitter |
2024-05-18 |
5 |
32 |
2 |
| "Nissing": when a whole violates the parts that compose it |
2024-05-06 |
11 |
85 |
1 |
| Sin as parts destroying the environment they depend on |
2024-05-06 |
24 |
562 |
25 |
| Hate as the feeling of being helplessly trapped |
2024-05-04 |
9 |
133 |
8 |
| Day 5 of courtship: refusing to be "not enough" for a partner |
2024-05-04 |
5 |
168 |
0 |
| Being able to laugh together as the standard for resolved conflict |
2024-05-04 |
10 |
94 |
5 |
| Mating Dance: keeping the right distance while escalating intimacy |
2024-05-04 |
18 |
310 |
5 |
| Getting salesy enough to get pushback, and rethinking teacher status |
2024-05-03 |
16 |
114 |
0 |
| Why "trad" is self-contradictory: there's no choiceless culture to return to |
2024-05-02 |
8 |
34 |
2 |
| The psy-op of defining surrender on behalf of the cosmos |
2024-05-01 |
4 |
63 |
5 |
| When the somethings-larger we surrender to are allowed to bully us |
2024-05-01 |
14 |
117 |
9 |
| Cultivating a baseline sense of ease with a prospective spouse |
2024-05-01 |
6 |
88 |
1 |
| Why the divorce rate says little about your marriage |
2024-04-30 |
4 |
725 |
51 |
| What the Mating Dance course deliberately doesn't cover |
2024-04-30 |
6 |
22 |
1 |
| Songs illustrating courtship done well and done confused |
2024-04-30 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
| Reading list on evolution of consciousness, religion, and living wholes |
2024-04-29 |
11 |
32 |
1 |
| Noticing mechanical moves and unintended meanings in conflict |
2024-04-28 |
6 |
16 |
0 |
| The perpetual conversation: a never-ending sensemaking room |
2024-04-27 |
9 |
44 |
0 |
| Counter-entitlement and the demand to be interfaced with |
2024-04-27 |
6 |
18 |
0 |
| Screenshotting insults, worldview clashes, and charitable replies |
2024-04-27 |
7 |
123 |
1 |
| Being loved well as attachment healing |
2024-04-26 |
7 |
602 |
21 |
| Selling out a first course cohort, seat by seat |
2024-04-26 |
7 |
55 |
0 |
| Falling in love as a common knowledge cascade |
2024-04-26 |
14 |
273 |
8 |
| Looking for a word for partners who are courting, not dating indefinitely |
2024-04-25 |
17 |
827 |
23 |
| Resolving partner conflict through understanding, not normativity |
2024-04-16 |
18 |
184 |
5 |
| Notes from a call on starting a service business |
2024-04-16 |
26 |
74 |
3 |
| Why calling minimum wage violations "theft" is a bad frame |
2024-04-15 |
8 |
115 |
5 |
| Simple marriage vows built on the eight worldly winds |
2024-04-10 |
13 |
131 |
0 |
| Tracing the origin of the phrase "common knowledge cascade" |
2024-04-03 |
9 |
30 |
2 |
| Not noticing you can't smell, and not knowing your own passion |
2024-04-01 |
5 |
1,073 |
72 |
| Trappability as a clearer replacement for ergodicity |
2024-03-30 |
7 |
58 |
5 |
| Beliefs, trust, and locating people in your sense of things |
2024-03-26 |
8 |
8 |
0 |
| Claude's identity crisis when talking to itself |
2024-03-26 |
14 |
52 |
0 |
| LLMs rationalize rather than report their reasoning |
2024-03-22 |
6 |
74 |
2 |
| Moral facts should make sense from every state of being |
2024-03-06 |
7 |
26 |
1 |
| Why you can't swap a partner's preferences like a module |
2024-03-06 |
5 |
47 |
0 |
| Naming the sorrow of ease you can't share with someone struggling |
2024-03-03 |
5 |
73 |
2 |
| Exclusivity without a commitment to stay together |
2024-02-24 |
12 |
777 |
32 |
| Tracing original sin and the Fall as an upgrade in consciousness |
2024-02-23 |
10 |
87 |
0 |
| How birth control and welfare incentives muddled marriage |
2024-02-21 |
6 |
27 |
2 |
| Why people adopt crazy worldviews, and how to deradicalize |
2024-02-20 |
4 |
61 |
2 |
| Rearticulating an idea in your own words is creative |
2024-02-16 |
5 |
63 |
4 |
| Steering by what seems good to me instead of rationality |
2024-02-10 |
11 |
71 |
2 |
| Wanting kids: distinguishing fear from genuine lack of desire |
2024-02-07 |
4 |
46 |
1 |
| Spotting fake-knowing in decisions about having children |
2024-02-07 |
9 |
212 |
0 |
| Memetic literacy propaganda posters |
2024-02-03 |
4 |
989 |
128 |
| Trusting your own sense-making, even with surgeons |
2024-02-02 |
4 |
329 |
22 |
| Predicting people is a distraction from loving them |
2024-02-02 |
6 |
643 |
56 |
| Self-hatred is a contradiction and self-love is inevitable |
2024-01-27 |
6 |
34 |
4 |
| Arc browser's broken hotkeys and incoherent metaphors |
2024-01-18 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
| Why definitions of life keep including companies and cities |
2024-01-17 |
8 |
59 |
2 |
| Three different Gods worshipped as the Father |
2024-01-16 |
4 |
40 |
0 |
| Twitter as a collective consciousness |
2024-01-15 |
7 |
45 |
0 |
| Dropping whiteness as an identity in favour of actual heritage |
2024-01-15 |
6 |
22 |
1 |
| Wanting a paid human prompt-engineering service for images |
2024-01-10 |
4 |
114 |
5 |
| How hormonal birth control changed the human sexes |
2024-01-08 |
7 |
197 |
3 |
| Refusing forced-choice hypotheticals |
2024-01-07 |
4 |
37 |
2 |
| Beta-testing coaching for fundamental freedom and frame dialogue |
2024-01-06 |
4 |
47 |
5 |
| Getting DALL-E and Midjourney to render unusual metaphorical images |
2024-01-05 |
5 |
42 |
3 |
| New Year's Eve as a celebration of chronos time |
2024-01-02 |
4 |
35 |
1 |
| Buddhist hell, victim mindset, and choosing clarity over peace |
2024-01-02 |
7 |
22 |
0 |
| Taking "why can't we all just get along?" literally |
2023-12-28 |
4 |
37 |
0 |
| History beyond wars: pop music, religion, and prehistory |
2023-12-27 |
8 |
16 |
0 |
| Expectations as anticipation vs enforcement, and sex differences |
2023-12-24 |
6 |
8 |
0 |
| Twitter as an open graph, not a community to be banned from |
2023-12-24 |
5 |
31 |
0 |
| You create your own part of Twitter by blocking liberally |
2023-12-24 |
6 |
30 |
0 |
| How pay-what-you-want pricing works for our workshops |
2023-12-23 |
18 |
53 |
0 |
| Superorganisms and the fuzzy boundaries of aliveness |
2023-12-22 |
11 |
25 |
0 |
| Making good on harm: punishment vs. learning and repair |
2023-12-20 |
12 |
145 |
2 |
| The coaching channel: personalized coaching at scale |
2023-12-20 |
11 |
62 |
4 |
| Flirty AIs designed for learning instead of addiction |
2023-12-17 |
17 |
343 |
8 |
| Economics of making money doing what feels alive |
2023-12-12 |
30 |
158 |
0 |
| A systems theory of unconscious frame control |
2023-12-09 |
18 |
302 |
15 |
| AI risk as capitalism's failure modes 1000x faster |
2023-12-06 |
9 |
55 |
4 |
| How to handle low-quality replies and curate your Twitter vibe |
2023-12-02 |
7 |
10 |
0 |
| Critiquing the human-alignment analogy in AI safety |
2023-12-01 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
| Why modern rites of passage into adulthood are so hard to build |
2023-12-01 |
35 |
286 |
0 |
| Beyond Goals Intensive: reworking the Goal-Crafting workshop |
2023-11-30 |
11 |
122 |
12 |
| Imperfect models beat implicit defaults |
2023-11-30 |
4 |
30 |
1 |
| Grounded vs. floaty economies and where coaching money comes from |
2023-11-30 |
15 |
270 |
0 |
| Whether the coaching economy can actually support its coaches |
2023-11-30 |
5 |
89 |
0 |
| Three buttons: what I offer 1-on-1, from trust-dancing to interface design |
2023-11-29 |
9 |
47 |
5 |
| Fifteen towardsness-based questions about AI and humanity's future |
2023-11-27 |
16 |
96 |
2 |
| The "bad is good, actually" psy-op and its religious roots |
2023-11-26 |
14 |
397 |
47 |
| Slowing down AI development without pausing or degrowth |
2023-11-20 |
7 |
190 |
9 |
| Getting married, and how a wedding reweaves social fabric |
2023-11-13 |
5 |
419 |
5 |
| Two aspects of coercion: material and existential |
2023-10-27 |
18 |
102 |
4 |
| 8000 followers AMA |
2023-10-26 |
8 |
40 |
0 |
| My first erasure poem, and getting blocked for it |
2023-10-18 |
4 |
580 |
36 |
| Why longer sits turn into chaotic thinking rather than meditation |
2023-10-02 |
5 |
66 |
0 |
| Pointing the way out of victim mindset without victim-blaming |
2023-09-24 |
13 |
413 |
13 |
| The felt-senses of looking at a false equation |
2023-09-15 |
5 |
30 |
0 |
| Looking for readers for a book on intentionality and freedom |
2023-09-07 |
6 |
42 |
1 |
| Meta-cultiness: admitting how culty your group actually is |
2023-08-28 |
9 |
114 |
2 |
| Getting obsessed with whose job everything is |
2023-08-28 |
4 |
30 |
0 |
| Legal racial categories and how using them perpetuates racism |
2023-08-26 |
9 |
29 |
0 |
| Getting bureaucracies out of the business of tracking sex and gender |
2023-08-26 |
20 |
123 |
2 |
| Evolving complexity requires downtime for play |
2023-08-19 |
13 |
37 |
0 |
| Coining a short verb for throwing out the baby with the bathwater |
2023-08-19 |
11 |
74 |
2 |
| Etymologies and metaphors behind words for unintelligent |
2023-08-18 |
8 |
22 |
1 |
| Common knowledge, trust, and mutual simulation |
2023-08-18 |
27 |
148 |
7 |
| Rereading an old unpopular thread and finding new synthesis |
2023-08-18 |
5 |
31 |
0 |
| Trust as what truth feels like in first person |
2023-08-17 |
8 |
42 |
3 |
| Trembling hand equilibria and friends' lives in the multiplayer pill game |
2023-08-17 |
13 |
42 |
0 |
| Doubting that perfect-copy decision theory scenarios apply to humans |
2023-08-16 |
7 |
14 |
0 |
| Why one-way total loyalty is incompatible with total honesty |
2023-08-16 |
21 |
62 |
0 |
| The blue/red pill poll as an iterated scene you choose to enter |
2023-08-16 |
11 |
67 |
3 |
| Reframing the red/blue pill poll to expose framing effects |
2023-08-15 |
23 |
330 |
4 |
| Shame as the experience of separation, and reconnection as its cure |
2023-08-14 |
6 |
61 |
2 |
| Defaults, markedness, and what counts as the unmarked human |
2023-08-11 |
14 |
48 |
0 |
| How the 'consent violation' frame amplifies mild discomfort |
2023-07-20 |
4 |
57 |
0 |
| Bananas in Canada as a minimum bar for utopia |
2023-07-19 |
5 |
32 |
1 |
| Experimenting with surrendering to a chosen larger Whole |
2023-07-16 |
6 |
36 |
0 |
| "That's not fair" as a bid to be received |
2023-07-15 |
4 |
150 |
8 |
| Why "unhealthy for you" doesn't mean "you should feel ashamed" |
2023-07-15 |
12 |
109 |
4 |
| Writing four versions of a rebrand announcement email |
2023-07-14 |
9 |
27 |
1 |
| Fighting a macOS window-focus bug across desktops |
2023-07-10 |
8 |
15 |
0 |
| Reading Dzogchen's liberating perception through McGilchrist's hemispheres |
2023-07-09 |
15 |
75 |
3 |
| Every city should have its own currency: Jane Jacobs meets crypto |
2023-07-06 |
14 |
5 |
0 |
| Letting inspiration flow by asking latent intentions to let go |
2023-07-06 |
6 |
29 |
0 |
| Defensiveness as a sign you aren't listening to your own parts |
2023-07-06 |
4 |
35 |
1 |
| Rebranding the Goal-Crafting Intensive as a Beyond Goals workshop |
2023-06-28 |
10 |
85 |
2 |
| A grade 9 bra-size measurement and the shame that followed |
2023-06-23 |
7 |
262 |
2 |
| Dropping "white" as a racial category |
2023-06-22 |
8 |
131 |
0 |
| Finding a joke funny requires granting the joker equal status |
2023-06-22 |
4 |
95 |
1 |
| "Cis" as slur, context, and ontological normativity |
2023-06-21 |
14 |
509 |
10 |
| Ugly pride flags and the cost of not saying the obvious |
2023-06-20 |
12 |
121 |
0 |
| RLHF, schooling, and whether AI alignment recreates egoic minds |
2023-06-20 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
| Reading an online autism test question by question |
2023-06-19 |
6 |
12 |
0 |
| Chatham House Rule is wrong for whole conferences |
2023-06-19 |
7 |
79 |
2 |
| Having your own stories without imposing them |
2023-06-19 |
4 |
53 |
2 |
| Processed cheese, rumination, and mistaking values for norms |
2023-06-15 |
12 |
89 |
0 |
| Why flight aggregators can't be trusted to find the cheapest fare |
2023-06-08 |
6 |
16 |
0 |
| My existence is its own justification |
2023-06-03 |
5 |
39 |
0 |
| Aiming to help more people instead of make more money |
2023-05-29 |
7 |
145 |
4 |
| The five senses are a fake abstraction |
2023-05-21 |
19 |
275 |
9 |
| "Cucked" as unwittingly hosting someone else's values |
2023-05-21 |
4 |
184 |
9 |
| Knowing as looking plus explanation, and who to defer to |
2023-05-21 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
| The unnamed god of coordination, opposite of Moloch |
2023-05-12 |
5 |
81 |
5 |
| A template for naming what someone might deny or deflect |
2023-05-07 |
4 |
73 |
2 |
| Seeing through someone's mask isn't a license to be a jerk |
2023-05-03 |
9 |
201 |
4 |
| Poking at cryptic compressed prompts and what ChatGPT does with them |
2023-04-07 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
| Testing whether GPT-4 can really compress text for itself |
2023-04-07 |
17 |
191 |
6 |
| Mapping public views on AI with Polis |
2023-04-04 |
7 |
56 |
15 |
| Misreading a kid's words and the pressure of being misunderstood |
2023-04-03 |
8 |
14 |
0 |
| Reconsidering a viral emotional-parenting video |
2023-04-01 |
5 |
98 |
0 |
| We need better words for kinds of intelligence |
2023-04-01 |
5 |
32 |
0 |
| RLHF as a coercive environment for a developing intelligence |
2023-03-27 |
4 |
131 |
17 |
| Construct validity and what AI benchmarks actually measure |
2023-03-27 |
25 |
176 |
7 |
| Using GPT to write its own prompts, and what that teaches about people |
2023-03-24 |
12 |
146 |
2 |
| Capture systems that skip the backlog |
2023-03-23 |
13 |
29 |
1 |
| Why you can't infer what someone is controlling from behavior |
2023-03-21 |
8 |
43 |
4 |
| Playfully purposeful as Complice's positioning |
2023-03-20 |
7 |
34 |
1 |
| Misusing Audre Lorde's "master's tools" line |
2023-03-20 |
10 |
57 |
0 |
| Krista and Tatiana Hogan and the framing of conjoined twins |
2023-03-20 |
6 |
12 |
0 |
| Intentionality, not time, is the real bottleneck |
2023-03-17 |
4 |
100 |
4 |
| Metaphor design for AI products beyond therapist and teacher |
2023-03-16 |
5 |
43 |
0 |
| An all-caps live processing of a frustrating, stuck day |
2023-03-15 |
35 |
131 |
1 |
| A guided meditation that produced deep relaxation and ego death |
2023-03-15 |
11 |
20 |
0 |
| Four paradigm shifts for non-coercive marketing |
2023-03-14 |
6 |
33 |
0 |
| Lack of accountability when software breaks user expectations |
2023-02-25 |
4 |
142 |
2 |
| NVC as disarming worldviews rather than banning them |
2023-02-23 |
5 |
54 |
1 |
| Not Circling: dropping the container while keeping the practice |
2023-02-23 |
7 |
106 |
2 |
| Translating "fluid mode" into Anglish as "flowing mood" |
2023-02-12 |
4 |
30 |
0 |
| "You're wrong" confuses intent with referent |
2023-02-08 |
5 |
31 |
1 |
| Cleaning mode, to-do list indirection, and splayed-out context |
2023-02-06 |
29 |
149 |
7 |
| Groundhog Day: perfecting mistakes vs accepting them |
2023-02-02 |
13 |
39 |
1 |
| Moments of waking up into self-awareness and theory of mind |
2023-01-22 |
7 |
258 |
13 |
| Being the first follower: starting a dinner party series |
2023-01-16 |
11 |
99 |
2 |
| Two kinds of immune response and covid's immune escape |
2023-01-15 |
6 |
10 |
1 |
| There's no such thing as an introvert |
2023-01-13 |
4 |
369 |
27 |
| Voice messages need a word or two of context |
2023-01-11 |
5 |
57 |
0 |
| There is no default meme, so no default human behavior |
2023-01-10 |
4 |
115 |
11 |
| A flexible every-2-3-days workout commitment |
2023-01-05 |
7 |
31 |
0 |
| Making a dream list to expand what feels possible |
2023-01-04 |
10 |
124 |
4 |
| Blame as a fight over explanations, and empowering alternatives |
2023-01-01 |
11 |
30 |
0 |
| What "step-" actually means in family roles |
2022-12-29 |
6 |
53 |
0 |
| Threadapalooza: 100 terms and what they currently mean to me |
2022-12-26 |
10 |
14 |
1 |
| CSI Approach: challenging, specific, immediate, approach goals |
2022-12-23 |
17 |
66 |
2 |
| How a clear new goal generates your next steps |
2022-12-16 |
15 |
36 |
6 |
| Judging someone's expertise when you lack it yourself |
2022-12-13 |
8 |
36 |
2 |
| Commissioning illustrations for a Complice page |
2022-12-13 |
7 |
26 |
2 |
| Why the problem of evil rests on an incoherent omnipotence |
2022-12-13 |
10 |
71 |
3 |
| Objections reveal what the listener thought you meant |
2022-12-11 |
5 |
62 |
1 |
| Obligation as a coercive confusion hiding the desire to help |
2022-12-06 |
4 |
33 |
1 |
| Canon is emergent, not written as canon |
2022-12-04 |
9 |
20 |
1 |
| Repeating and remixing across threads, blog posts, and canonical pages |
2022-12-04 |
20 |
48 |
1 |
| Naming what GPT does: from 'genshit' to confabulation |
2022-12-03 |
6 |
418 |
21 |
| What non-coercive marketing actually looks like |
2022-11-27 |
5 |
32 |
1 |
| Making an appointment with your own wisdom |
2022-11-21 |
19 |
86 |
2 |
| Using willpower to override unconflicted autopilots |
2022-11-21 |
5 |
30 |
0 |
| Refusing the hypothetical button |
2022-11-19 |
4 |
35 |
0 |
| Doing 100 'do 100 things' challenges |
2022-11-09 |
9 |
31 |
0 |
| Writing an opinionated Complice philosophy page as marketing |
2022-11-09 |
7 |
23 |
0 |
| Free speech as prerequisite for accurate information on Twitter |
2022-11-07 |
8 |
20 |
2 |
| Three steps for empowered dialogue |
2022-10-28 |
5 |
117 |
7 |
| When the day changes and your intentions go stale |
2022-10-14 |
16 |
20 |
0 |
| Value collapse from goal tracking, and framing goals without metrics |
2022-10-14 |
9 |
24 |
1 |
| YouTube search fails at relevance, and what exploring vs finding modes need |
2022-10-11 |
7 |
19 |
0 |
| What actually drove the growth of Lex Fridman's podcast |
2022-10-03 |
6 |
20 |
0 |
| How to correctly visualize the good/fast/cheap triangle |
2022-10-03 |
5 |
47 |
0 |
| Underestimating how long a task takes wrecks motivation |
2022-09-28 |
4 |
46 |
0 |
| Rebooting a morning routine: frog pomodoros before consuming anything |
2022-09-27 |
4 |
55 |
1 |
| Why I use so many words: solving failed communication in the general case |
2022-09-26 |
4 |
30 |
0 |
| Why needing lots of communication signals teams are out of sync |
2022-09-26 |
17 |
34 |
0 |
| Knot-listening: when neither person can hear the other |
2022-09-26 |
5 |
38 |
5 |
| Transcending dualities while undercutting the smugness |
2022-09-25 |
5 |
87 |
4 |
| Bespoke offramps written by people who left the cult |
2022-09-24 |
7 |
16 |
0 |
| Song lyrics about love that learns and alters |
2022-09-23 |
7 |
13 |
4 |
| Why ultimatums provoke the "fuck you" response |
2022-09-05 |
4 |
145 |
2 |
| Saying takes so hot you don't fully agree with them yourself |
2022-09-05 |
4 |
69 |
3 |
| GroupSelf as an emergent mode, not a person |
2022-09-01 |
12 |
102 |
0 |
| All generalizations are overgeneralizations |
2022-09-01 |
7 |
9 |
1 |
| Diligence, regret, and making more interesting mistakes |
2022-08-30 |
15 |
45 |
3 |
| Brave New World, memetics, and why we need protopian fiction |
2022-08-30 |
12 |
157 |
2 |
| Late-night journal notes on streaks, freedom, and allowing diligence |
2022-08-14 |
10 |
7 |
0 |
| Allowing yourself to do the thing instead of getting yourself to |
2022-08-14 |
11 |
318 |
20 |
| Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects |
2022-08-10 |
219 |
619 |
8 |
| Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment |
2022-07-31 |
19 |
258 |
9 |
| A freestyle 'I wanna' rap about letting go and thinking out loud |
2022-07-31 |
27 |
68 |
2 |
| How 'these parts of twitter' splinters into sub-scenes as it grows |
2022-07-27 |
13 |
254 |
5 |
| Anger as asserting "that's your problem, not mine" |
2022-07-13 |
6 |
116 |
6 |
| Letting other people make their own mistakes as respect |
2022-07-08 |
11 |
221 |
28 |
| Needing your predictable oscillations to be within bounds |
2022-06-25 |
4 |
66 |
7 |
| A goal framework contra SMART, plus the CSI approach |
2022-06-01 |
6 |
13 |
0 |
| Wanting a search engine that respects quotation marks |
2022-05-29 |
4 |
89 |
1 |
| Fallacies are jokes taken seriously |
2022-05-27 |
11 |
28 |
2 |
| Copying strangers' facial expressions as a practice |
2022-05-27 |
4 |
33 |
0 |
| Variations on the zone of proximal development |
2022-05-21 |
6 |
14 |
0 |
| Locking my account after the separation thread went wide |
2022-05-16 |
4 |
112 |
0 |
| Ending a 3.5-year marriage and what I learned from it |
2022-05-14 |
12 |
673 |
37 |
| Unfollowing to curate a feed toward what I want to see |
2022-04-30 |
5 |
64 |
0 |
| Brave browser upgrade wiped my crypto wallet |
2022-04-26 |
7 |
13 |
0 |
| Non-naive trust dance and the coordination problem |
2022-04-25 |
6 |
24 |
1 |
| Learning a backflip fast with staged feedback loops |
2022-04-25 |
4 |
687 |
113 |
| The self-defeating logic of "if you're not with us, you're against us" |
2022-04-21 |
4 |
380 |
52 |
| "Sem": a neologism to replace think and feel |
2022-04-13 |
14 |
36 |
1 |
| Two kinds of dancing: trance submission vs conversational movement |
2022-04-11 |
14 |
70 |
0 |
| How Kegan's developmental stages spread through the rationalist scene |
2022-04-07 |
7 |
21 |
1 |
| Evaluating additions to SMART goals: present, identity, positive, expansive |
2022-04-05 |
7 |
11 |
0 |
| Jason Mraz's 'I Won't Give Up' as a shadow statement |
2022-04-05 |
14 |
80 |
1 |
| How many people can actually follow what you're saying |
2022-03-29 |
4 |
90 |
1 |
| Layering: a concept for understanding effortful behavior change |
2022-03-28 |
8 |
92 |
5 |
| The marshmallow test as a case study in Moloch and self-trust |
2022-03-24 |
6 |
15 |
0 |
| Why trust doesn't converge and honoring your own distrust |
2022-03-21 |
7 |
86 |
1 |
| Aerial photos from SFO to Vancouver Island |
2022-03-17 |
8 |
21 |
0 |
| A song about love as a place you enter together |
2022-03-12 |
4 |
73 |
7 |
| Thinking out loud about the Emergencies Act and the trucker protest |
2022-02-15 |
11 |
72 |
0 |
| How a leader's blindspots become the group's blindspots |
2022-02-11 |
8 |
77 |
1 |
| Defining coercion via Perceptual Control Theory, and the parenting edge case |
2022-02-10 |
5 |
37 |
1 |
| An app for having conversations with your parts |
2022-02-10 |
9 |
36 |
2 |
| Untangling aversion to marketing and two kinds of fakeness |
2022-02-09 |
9 |
27 |
0 |
| Ten years of shifting from a coercive to a collaborative mindset |
2022-02-09 |
6 |
62 |
1 |
| Why Twitter should support multiple quote tweets |
2022-02-08 |
6 |
69 |
6 |
| Technology that's so smart it's stupid |
2022-02-08 |
4 |
35 |
2 |
| Noticing when you're on your own instead of waiting to coordinate |
2022-02-08 |
4 |
49 |
1 |
| Index of the 100 video project |
2022-02-03 |
77 |
44 |
0 |
| Noticing someone's blindspot as unacknowledged control systems |
2022-01-28 |
5 |
59 |
4 |
| Facts about Complice, the intentionality app |
2022-01-28 |
13 |
9 |
1 |
| Working through a marketing block with coherence coaching |
2022-01-26 |
7 |
35 |
1 |
| Notes on Vervaeke on rationality and relevance realization |
2022-01-24 |
6 |
26 |
2 |
| Supporting Visakan Veerasamy's Twitter work via Patreon |
2022-01-17 |
4 |
46 |
3 |
| Defensiveness, listening, and the enzymes needed to metabolize what others say |
2022-01-09 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
| Don't Look Up as a study in urgently wasting time |
2021-12-26 |
4 |
49 |
1 |
| Astrology, woo practices, and the discomfort of being typed |
2021-12-24 |
17 |
115 |
1 |
| How 'not okay to want that' becomes awayness-based motivation |
2021-12-23 |
7 |
40 |
0 |
| Why land value tax seems obviously better than property tax |
2021-12-19 |
8 |
29 |
0 |
| Slate Star Codex finally writes up how bad 'no evidence' is |
2021-12-18 |
4 |
38 |
2 |
| Sharing a visual oddity and whether the green hue matters |
2021-12-15 |
5 |
81 |
15 |
| Turning an awkward mix-up into curiosity instead of shame |
2021-12-14 |
8 |
118 |
1 |
| Defining coercion as the exploitation of scarcity |
2021-12-09 |
28 |
155 |
4 |
| Capitalizing racial terms, phenotype, and ethnic heritage |
2021-12-08 |
16 |
49 |
1 |
| No part of you works against your self-interest |
2021-12-06 |
5 |
51 |
1 |
| How to do Threadapalooza 2021 |
2021-12-03 |
12 |
119 |
5 |
| 100 tweets on 'what if it were good tho?' |
2021-12-02 |
103 |
595 |
7 |
| Seeing everyone's persona as 'doing a bit' |
2021-11-30 |
4 |
229 |
11 |
| January Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops now open |
2021-11-24 |
4 |
30 |
2 |
| Why letting relative experts jam in public is underrated |
2021-11-19 |
7 |
23 |
0 |
| A minimalist Twitter setup for tweeting without the timeline |
2021-11-17 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
| Detecting genuine stokedness vs. 'I should be involved' |
2021-11-17 |
7 |
12 |
0 |
| Crowdfunding, fungible money, and group needs-and-resources conversations |
2021-11-13 |
19 |
154 |
3 |
| Spending time not doing the thing, and self-energizing motivation |
2021-11-10 |
14 |
261 |
6 |
| Memeing new website pages into existence beyond /now |
2021-11-06 |
6 |
20 |
0 |
| Virtual barn-raising #2: a math card game for kids with dyslexia |
2021-11-06 |
13 |
80 |
3 |
| Wanting to not X versus not wanting X |
2021-11-01 |
10 |
49 |
1 |
| Sketch of a political platform for an ideal Canadian party |
2021-10-29 |
28 |
39 |
2 |
| What are the intrinsic reference levels in Perceptual Control Theory? |
2021-10-29 |
7 |
35 |
2 |
| We don't have time to rush |
2021-10-18 |
4 |
84 |
9 |
| Designing goal-setting prompts that evoke your own whys |
2021-10-16 |
10 |
58 |
1 |
| Unfollowing to keep Twitter a conversation web, not void-shouting |
2021-10-14 |
8 |
81 |
0 |
| Choosing a MIDI keyboard with built-in speakers |
2021-10-14 |
9 |
28 |
0 |
| Explaining the good corner of Twitter to people who don't use it |
2021-10-14 |
6 |
189 |
4 |
| Taking a gender continuum test and questioning survey categories |
2021-10-12 |
6 |
23 |
0 |
| Cross-pollinating online courses via recorded conversations |
2021-10-12 |
5 |
32 |
0 |
| A role for helping people figure out what their thing is |
2021-10-12 |
7 |
27 |
0 |
| Falling in the ocean while climbing rocks, and calibration |
2021-10-12 |
6 |
20 |
0 |
| Reflections on a weekly day with nothing planned |
2021-10-11 |
16 |
85 |
3 |
| Ranting about microwave knobs and undesigned products |
2021-10-11 |
8 |
32 |
2 |
| Why tarot makes sense to me and astrology doesn't |
2021-10-09 |
4 |
30 |
0 |
| Discovering ENFP fits better than ENTx |
2021-10-05 |
7 |
14 |
0 |
| Meta-trust as the foundation for a distributed meta-company |
2021-09-28 |
4 |
38 |
2 |
| Inner conflict in a letter to a child one chooses not to have |
2021-09-25 |
19 |
135 |
0 |
| Any future you aim for has this moment in its past |
2021-09-25 |
4 |
34 |
4 |
| Why people signed up for the virtual barn-raising |
2021-09-25 |
8 |
19 |
0 |
| Announcing the first virtual barn-raising |
2021-09-21 |
10 |
135 |
2 |
| Building a thing that lets others create what only I can create |
2021-09-12 |
6 |
15 |
2 |
| Designing a site for on-demand design rants |
2021-09-11 |
11 |
34 |
2 |
| Tracing the barn-raising idea back through DMs and goal data |
2021-09-09 |
8 |
21 |
0 |
| Paper books as guests in the house |
2021-08-28 |
8 |
78 |
2 |
| What I got out of playing Hades |
2021-08-23 |
19 |
97 |
1 |
| Why overcorrecting beats chronic undercorrection |
2021-08-16 |
5 |
81 |
5 |
| You can't make new old friends |
2021-08-11 |
6 |
72 |
8 |
| From good-vs-bad to good-vs-evil: guilt morality and spiral dynamics |
2021-08-10 |
11 |
28 |
0 |
| Civium: superlinear city scaling and the single global virtual city |
2021-08-10 |
16 |
158 |
12 |
| Why ethical models should disambiguate psychopaths from everyone else |
2021-08-10 |
7 |
51 |
1 |
| Loch Kelly's effortless mindfulness and the attention/awareness split |
2021-08-09 |
7 |
48 |
2 |
| Perceptual control hierarchies vs reinforcement learning in game agents |
2021-08-07 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
| Why text-based tools can't produce real common knowledge |
2021-08-03 |
16 |
47 |
2 |
| Why subconscious drives outmaneuver conscious intentions |
2021-08-03 |
10 |
184 |
8 |
| Revealed preferences ignore internal conflict and virtual reference levels |
2021-08-03 |
6 |
44 |
1 |
| Charging money per day to keep items in a task backlog |
2021-07-23 |
5 |
33 |
1 |
| Practicing respect across frame gaps, from inner parts to politics |
2021-07-19 |
9 |
32 |
0 |
| Growing up without exposure to wealth disparity |
2021-07-19 |
8 |
73 |
1 |
| Gut-response polls: how cool, weird, and sexy are you? |
2021-07-12 |
6 |
20 |
0 |
| How I run online workshops instead of online courses |
2021-07-11 |
36 |
94 |
5 |
| Fighting staleness in Complice with a task-breakdown feature |
2021-07-10 |
12 |
30 |
1 |
| Why acting from your own perceptions isn't the same as selfishness |
2021-07-09 |
6 |
22 |
0 |
| Self-paced co-learning and the freedom to talk back to the teacher |
2021-07-08 |
9 |
56 |
3 |
| Introspecting on the hidden lessons school taught you |
2021-07-08 |
9 |
35 |
2 |
| Finding a better frame than self-employment |
2021-07-07 |
11 |
33 |
0 |
| Wanting a quiet heat exchanger for fresh air without losing heat |
2021-07-04 |
7 |
17 |
0 |
| Turning a favourite tweet into a blog post and back into a thread |
2021-06-30 |
7 |
30 |
2 |
| Living in a dream mashup of present reality and old emotional meanings |
2021-06-30 |
33 |
670 |
60 |
| Feeling superior to both sides as a way to bust false dichotomies |
2021-06-29 |
9 |
28 |
0 |
| Why Fahrenheit beats Celsius for weather, and a better scale |
2021-06-29 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
| Noticing conversational bandwidth without dismissing perspectives |
2021-06-25 |
7 |
35 |
0 |
| "Nake" as a verb and nakedness as home |
2021-06-24 |
6 |
8 |
0 |
| The Sacred Band, ancient sexuality, and depths of male friendship |
2021-06-23 |
10 |
7 |
0 |
| How naming a problem can reinforce it |
2021-06-19 |
4 |
38 |
0 |
| Photos of my most outrageous outfits |
2021-06-16 |
7 |
8 |
0 |
| Redesigning Twitter DMs as private tweets |
2021-06-16 |
9 |
76 |
4 |
| Perceptual Control Theory inverts the logic of reinforcement |
2021-06-15 |
12 |
60 |
0 |
| Seeding a walkable co-creative community in coastal BC |
2021-06-14 |
5 |
43 |
1 |
| A collection of useful tautologies |
2021-06-08 |
18 |
87 |
7 |
| Hunting for a bass singer and building a collaborative arrangement |
2021-06-01 |
8 |
12 |
0 |
| Not wanting to be overestimated, and the whiplash that follows |
2021-05-29 |
5 |
35 |
1 |
| What pinned Factorio achievements teach about designing goal apps |
2021-05-21 |
17 |
9 |
0 |
| Why blindspot feedback is so hard to give and receive |
2021-05-11 |
19 |
624 |
25 |
| The absence of long-haired men in panels and media |
2021-05-02 |
8 |
67 |
1 |
| WordPress auto-guesses posts from partial URL slugs |
2021-04-20 |
6 |
9 |
0 |
| Why punishing bad actors is hard to aim |
2021-04-08 |
11 |
19 |
0 |
| Frame battles and critiquing in service of understanding |
2021-04-01 |
12 |
41 |
0 |
| Recording song demos to find music collaborators |
2021-03-28 |
8 |
41 |
0 |
| Why racialized emoji were a unicode design mistake |
2021-03-27 |
5 |
50 |
1 |
| Rationality only exists within a frame |
2021-03-25 |
5 |
94 |
11 |
| Would there still be taxes in eutopia? |
2021-03-21 |
10 |
46 |
1 |
| Reframing final-year schoolwork as bureaucratic paperwork |
2021-03-19 |
5 |
44 |
0 |
| Receiving book recommendations without queuing up obligations |
2021-03-15 |
8 |
23 |
0 |
| Prototyping Roam in an iframe past X-Frame-Options |
2021-03-13 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
| Goal-Crafting Intensive meta-thread of threads |
2021-03-12 |
16 |
51 |
3 |
| Searching for a better word for "PCT error" |
2021-03-11 |
12 |
16 |
0 |
| Attendee reviews of the Goal-Crafting Intensive |
2021-03-08 |
18 |
10 |
4 |
| Almost nothing is actually designed |
2021-03-06 |
7 |
95 |
7 |
| Telling a flailing party how to earn your vote |
2021-02-28 |
7 |
10 |
2 |
| Tasks vs urges as a design distinction for apps |
2021-02-22 |
10 |
28 |
1 |
| Ontum: a single unit of ontology in perceptual control theory |
2021-02-20 |
9 |
63 |
1 |
| The NYT SSC piece as bad writing |
2021-02-13 |
7 |
97 |
2 |
| Microsolidarity, fluid teams, and whether collectives want anything |
2021-02-13 |
7 |
32 |
2 |
| Tab jubilee and the case for Tinder for Tabs |
2021-02-13 |
7 |
65 |
4 |
| Why our tools are so bad: living in the future about thought |
2021-02-08 |
11 |
33 |
1 |
| Coming alive as an ethical framework |
2021-01-26 |
8 |
42 |
2 |
| How to actually take a day off Twitter |
2021-01-26 |
13 |
23 |
0 |
| When suggesting workarounds reads as not listening |
2021-01-23 |
7 |
29 |
0 |
| Taking Ashcroft's Alexander Technique course and primary control |
2021-01-20 |
5 |
31 |
1 |
| Spotify, artist pay, and the externalities behind great UX |
2021-01-20 |
8 |
16 |
1 |
| Applying to coach a Gumroad-style building course |
2021-01-19 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
| Listening to anger by hearing the collective pain behind it |
2021-01-19 |
6 |
15 |
1 |
| World's biggest problems: generators, dialogue, integration, polarization |
2021-01-18 |
8 |
30 |
1 |
| Gumroad's operating philosophy as inspiration for meta-teams |
2021-01-09 |
11 |
51 |
0 |
| Thinking out loud about censorship, deplatforming, and freedom of reach |
2021-01-09 |
16 |
21 |
0 |
| Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation |
2021-01-09 |
15 |
167 |
9 |
| Decentralizing vaccine rollout by giving orgs autonomy over criteria |
2021-01-09 |
7 |
17 |
0 |
| Twemex sidebar and the mechanics of composing threads |
2021-01-07 |
6 |
10 |
1 |
| Live impressions of trying Focusmate for accompanied work |
2021-01-06 |
13 |
10 |
0 |
| Trying to find an option trade that pays off if the UK covid strain hits |
2021-01-06 |
23 |
50 |
0 |
| Tweets referenced during a live call with Visakan and Michael Ashcroft |
2021-01-05 |
7 |
17 |
1 |
| Claiming to be the godfather of #roamcult |
2021-01-04 |
10 |
105 |
0 |
| Two goal-setting workshops on the same weekend |
2020-12-29 |
11 |
10 |
1 |
| Confirmed COVID cases versus actual infection estimates |
2020-12-27 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
| Distraction as a less threatening form of helplessness |
2020-12-22 |
8 |
21 |
0 |
| Membranes as a metaphor for group boundaries |
2020-12-21 |
11 |
30 |
0 |
| Spatial metaphors for human systems: bridges, depth perception, diversity |
2020-12-21 |
24 |
102 |
3 |
| A protocol for learning to REM nap, and REM vs slow-wave deprivation |
2020-12-17 |
8 |
29 |
0 |
| Introducing the coaches at the Goal-Crafting Intensive |
2020-12-17 |
17 |
68 |
2 |
| Attackers feel powerless, and why protectiveness escalates arms races |
2020-12-15 |
10 |
8 |
1 |
| Welcoming others' concerns while honoring your own distrust |
2020-12-14 |
7 |
10 |
0 |
| How the Goal-Crafting Intensive evolved toward metasystematic, non-coercive coaching |
2020-12-14 |
10 |
22 |
3 |
| Writing about GCI, meta-team, and the money question |
2020-12-12 |
8 |
2 |
0 |
| My If By Whiskey take on If By Whiskey |
2020-12-11 |
4 |
431 |
57 |
| Commitment as left-hemisphere confabulation and treating behavior as coherent |
2020-12-09 |
9 |
81 |
4 |
| Making all human interaction therapeutic, not just therapy hour |
2020-12-09 |
10 |
123 |
1 |
| The Goal-Crafting Intensive: format, coaches, and signup |
2020-12-07 |
7 |
10 |
0 |
| Why you can't really choose a mindset |
2020-12-07 |
8 |
45 |
0 |
| How Burning Man permanently changed my dreamscape |
2020-12-05 |
4 |
31 |
0 |
| Source and helpers vs. leader and follower metaphors |
2020-11-29 |
7 |
8 |
0 |
| Would You Rather as a non-coercive productivity technique |
2020-11-25 |
6 |
28 |
2 |
| Why I never finish the online courses I buy |
2020-11-19 |
8 |
112 |
0 |
| When unblending goes too far and internal parts get reified |
2020-11-17 |
9 |
14 |
0 |
| Background intentions, relationship to goals, and the Goal-Crafting Intensive |
2020-11-17 |
9 |
19 |
1 |
| Why political unity talk fails without actually listening to dissenters |
2020-11-08 |
12 |
29 |
0 |
| The copywriting problem unique to meta offerings like courses and goal systems |
2020-11-07 |
12 |
18 |
0 |
| Self as a selfing function among parts |
2020-11-04 |
18 |
67 |
2 |
| Why policing "unnatural" behavior isn't a paradox |
2020-11-04 |
8 |
16 |
1 |
| A three-phase pathway into emotional reconsolidation |
2020-11-03 |
6 |
54 |
1 |
| Becoming the person who makes needed things happen |
2020-11-03 |
6 |
11 |
1 |
| Why "trad" can't escape choice |
2020-11-02 |
4 |
43 |
0 |
| Complaining as affirming one's values and experience |
2020-11-01 |
8 |
184 |
18 |
| Trauma healing as permission to know and feel what you do |
2020-11-01 |
6 |
93 |
6 |
| Why parts are never unreasonable, only differently framed |
2020-10-30 |
16 |
81 |
1 |
| Annoying traits in loved ones as their self-care |
2020-10-27 |
5 |
62 |
1 |
| IFS applied to relationships: caretaking each other's parts |
2020-10-22 |
6 |
28 |
0 |
| Building a meta-team around what releases energy |
2020-10-19 |
15 |
161 |
6 |
| Finding people who'd love the parts of your dream you don't |
2020-10-19 |
6 |
77 |
7 |
| Offering help to someone building a similar app |
2020-10-19 |
4 |
69 |
1 |
| Doing Byron Katie's The Work with parts instead of ego |
2020-10-16 |
6 |
15 |
0 |
| Google's new logos and why they're worse |
2020-10-15 |
5 |
73 |
7 |
| Fractional second-person pronouns and non-reified parts work |
2020-10-14 |
17 |
17 |
0 |
| Two meanings of "therapy" and the licensing racket |
2020-10-07 |
10 |
60 |
0 |
| Misattributed quotes as cover versions, and "attribution art" |
2020-10-07 |
6 |
7 |
1 |
| Feedback on Antar: avatars, IFS, and parts-work precedents |
2020-10-05 |
9 |
12 |
0 |
| Culturally constructed emotions and inventing new emotional language |
2020-10-01 |
15 |
106 |
2 |
| You can just tell people things and change their lives |
2020-09-30 |
6 |
53 |
1 |
| Productive and burnt-out modes as one system, not two selves |
2020-09-29 |
4 |
30 |
0 |
| Rethinking 'any mistakes are my own' acknowledgements |
2020-09-27 |
11 |
71 |
4 |
| Tanha as grasping, and the small self's fishbowl |
2020-09-21 |
7 |
48 |
4 |
| Systems thinking as rederiving indigenous paradigms |
2020-09-13 |
5 |
54 |
8 |
| Getting stuck in exactly the problems you can't yet solve |
2020-09-09 |
4 |
57 |
11 |
| Panic, childhood flashbacks, and not needing feelings to go away |
2020-08-26 |
8 |
26 |
0 |
| Victor Wooten's "You are here" game for finding the key by ear |
2020-08-23 |
9 |
26 |
0 |
| Looking for a producer to turn my songs into electronic tracks |
2020-08-04 |
5 |
33 |
3 |
| Bohm on dialogue: defending your opinions means you're not serious |
2020-07-28 |
10 |
48 |
2 |
| Teaching dharma so people can recognize themselves in it |
2020-07-24 |
6 |
12 |
1 |
| Graph tools, family DAGs, and the sexual reproduction of ideas |
2020-07-21 |
7 |
21 |
0 |
| Self-organized criticality and civilization as a sandcastle |
2020-07-21 |
12 |
115 |
12 |
| Alan Kay on how people misunderstand computing |
2020-07-09 |
5 |
77 |
15 |
| Inviting a design jam on tools oriented toward groups |
2020-07-01 |
4 |
42 |
2 |
| Developing a felt sense for scales at the keyboard |
2020-07-01 |
7 |
31 |
0 |
| Why "safe space" norms create blame and double binds |
2020-07-01 |
5 |
40 |
1 |
| Returning to a practice after falling off the wagon |
2020-06-27 |
10 |
44 |
1 |
| Roam, notetaking ontology, and what software is for |
2020-06-27 |
8 |
25 |
0 |
| How threats of punishment choke information flow in groups |
2020-06-26 |
9 |
110 |
6 |
| Design rant: tags instead of playlists in music streaming |
2020-06-21 |
25 |
326 |
20 |
| Why race-and-IQ claims rest on shaky premises |
2020-06-21 |
6 |
32 |
1 |
| Why the Goal-Crafting Intensive workshop works |
2020-06-20 |
7 |
24 |
4 |
| What a goal doesn't need: due dates, metrics, finish lines |
2020-06-18 |
17 |
71 |
6 |
| Ways of knowing, magic, and losing the muse to rationality |
2020-06-17 |
7 |
12 |
0 |
| How retweets shape which ideas spread |
2020-06-16 |
6 |
19 |
1 |
| Why "runway" is the wrong metaphor for bootstrapping a business |
2020-06-08 |
8 |
146 |
2 |
| Line-by-line feedback on a diagrammatic notation explainer |
2020-06-08 |
14 |
13 |
0 |
| Finding the level of abstraction where your pitch fits someone |
2020-06-07 |
11 |
9 |
0 |
| Songs about exes, mostly Jason Mraz |
2020-06-07 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
| How to reward community contributions to a product |
2020-06-07 |
7 |
21 |
0 |
| Search engines with no way to give feedback |
2020-06-06 |
6 |
19 |
0 |
| Naming goals as a kind of ritual magic |
2020-06-05 |
20 |
176 |
12 |
| Why surprise UI changes trigger blame, inward and outward |
2020-06-04 |
14 |
37 |
0 |
| Designing apps for common knowledge and shared media context |
2020-05-30 |
10 |
39 |
2 |
| Running list of people doing deep design work |
2020-05-30 |
14 |
57 |
3 |
| Scotch snaps, amphibrachs, and how long stressed syllables really are |
2020-05-20 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
| Donella Meadows' leverage points for intervening in a system |
2020-05-19 |
20 |
420 |
92 |
| The kinds of intelligence that show up in interviews |
2020-05-17 |
6 |
18 |
0 |
| Efficiency in transactional systems vs generative ones |
2020-05-13 |
9 |
13 |
2 |
| A 2×2 of sensemaking vs controlling in conversation |
2020-05-11 |
19 |
151 |
10 |
| Resolving contradictory perspectives with higher-dimensional thinking |
2020-05-11 |
8 |
158 |
18 |
| McGilchrist's divided brain and ways of attending |
2020-05-08 |
63 |
1,015 |
83 |
| Looking for the best introduction to complex systems thinking |
2020-05-03 |
4 |
87 |
7 |
| Prediction and follow-up on Sweden's no-lockdown approach |
2020-05-01 |
6 |
10 |
1 |
| Upward spirals of ideas and why quote tweets enable convergence |
2020-04-28 |
14 |
106 |
7 |
| Finding work that's harder not to do than to do |
2020-04-28 |
6 |
120 |
10 |
| Rethinking Twitter threads as editable, evolving units |
2020-04-26 |
13 |
77 |
4 |
| Idea: a latency-proof remote music loop machine |
2020-04-25 |
4 |
35 |
4 |
| Four quotes on freedom, craving, and staying in the struggle |
2020-04-24 |
5 |
81 |
8 |
| Kegan stages as both growing up and cleaning up |
2020-04-24 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
| Why "individual development recapitulates cultural development" persists |
2020-04-23 |
7 |
19 |
1 |
| Brain hemispheres, masculine/feminine archetypes, and non-duality |
2020-04-20 |
8 |
18 |
1 |
| Why disaster prediction is cybernetically weird |
2020-04-19 |
10 |
19 |
0 |
| Conditional predictions and what to do under uncertainty |
2020-04-19 |
11 |
11 |
3 |
| Onboarding pathways from fear and anger into connection |
2020-04-18 |
8 |
136 |
2 |
| Why we misread messages when resonance is missing |
2020-04-12 |
5 |
41 |
4 |
| Using caffeine on your best days instead of your worst |
2020-04-06 |
21 |
268 |
11 |
| Plotting COVID growth on log scales against total population |
2020-04-05 |
8 |
11 |
0 |
| Kegan's stages as an artifact of left-hemisphere fixation |
2020-04-04 |
13 |
203 |
11 |
| Could social distancing wipe out cold and flu strains |
2020-04-01 |
8 |
8 |
1 |
| Mapping a 20-button gaming mouse for a Linux workflow |
2020-03-29 |
11 |
15 |
0 |
| Recorded group conversations and holding both live and later listeners |
2020-03-25 |
9 |
26 |
1 |
| Twitter trends and layers of meta-commentary |
2020-03-24 |
6 |
7 |
0 |
| Facepalm tethers: a hack to stop touching your face |
2020-03-12 |
17 |
93 |
18 |
| How long viruses last on surfaces and antimicrobial copper |
2020-03-08 |
4 |
177 |
47 |
| Designing databases for uncertain and relative dates |
2020-03-06 |
8 |
6 |
0 |
| Searching tweets from people you follow as a threading workflow |
2020-03-04 |
8 |
60 |
1 |
| What a goal becomes when you remove a key ingredient |
2020-02-19 |
21 |
63 |
5 |
| Roam stub-pages dissolve the need to finish everything first |
2020-02-18 |
7 |
17 |
0 |
| McGilchrist's brain hemispheres and Buddhist impermanence |
2020-01-28 |
8 |
55 |
5 |
| The double bind of 'come dance with us' and cultural appropriation |
2020-01-23 |
4 |
30 |
0 |
| A running collection of tables of contents I love |
2020-01-16 |
6 |
17 |
0 |
| The Korzybski Gap: negative vs positive knowledge in language |
2020-01-04 |
4 |
69 |
7 |
| The Task/Obligation Jubilee: forgiving your backlog |
2020-01-02 |
11 |
61 |
9 |
| Goal-Crafting Intensive: online workshops on goals, planning, and visioning |
2019-12-27 |
7 |
12 |
0 |
| Living in a dream mashup of present situation and old emotional meanings |
2019-12-23 |
5 |
652 |
102 |
| Opinions on bridging subcultures that don't quite harmonize |
2019-12-16 |
14 |
137 |
5 |
| Goals vs systems and the trap of pre-success failure |
2019-12-16 |
18 |
171 |
9 |
| Representing values, not just goals, in productivity tools |
2019-12-16 |
7 |
33 |
2 |
| A running collection of delightful animal clips |
2019-12-14 |
35 |
172 |
8 |
| Reading Diamond: A Paradox Logic |
2019-12-13 |
5 |
34 |
6 |
| Nurturing design: modal interfaces that guide intention |
2019-12-11 |
19 |
65 |
3 |
| How to choose goals: heuristics from the Goal-Crafting Intensive |
2019-12-10 |
11 |
79 |
9 |
| Dissolving the patriarchy through men's emotional processing |
2019-12-08 |
8 |
78 |
1 |
| Six years of makeshift standing desks |
2019-12-08 |
15 |
79 |
0 |
| Complice marketing braindump: numbers, channels, and ideas |
2019-12-07 |
18 |
72 |
2 |
| Searching Twitter while tweeting as a shared second brain |
2019-12-04 |
7 |
18 |
1 |
| Rewriting Complice's homepage with evocative rather than dry copy |
2019-12-04 |
11 |
14 |
0 |
| Running out of toilet paper, fear of boredom, and everyday meaning |
2019-12-02 |
16 |
44 |
0 |
| "You're not you when you're hungry": scarcity and fluid selfhood |
2019-12-02 |
7 |
17 |
0 |
| Why Chatham House Rule fails as a blanket conference policy |
2019-12-02 |
6 |
18 |
1 |
| Roamblogs: nonlinear public writing and the blog/book distinction |
2019-11-30 |
24 |
195 |
6 |
| Documenting how I actually relate to money, and sharing it |
2019-11-06 |
19 |
120 |
1 |
| Two opposing memeplexes: memes that resist change vs memes that invite it |
2019-10-26 |
13 |
14 |
0 |
| AI models behave like left hemispheres |
2019-10-25 |
22 |
93 |
1 |
| Trauma, pseudomemories, and capacity for digesting |
2019-10-24 |
11 |
49 |
2 |
| Why validity shouldn't depend on having a category |
2019-10-20 |
6 |
116 |
1 |
| Federations, confederations, and unitary states |
2019-10-19 |
6 |
8 |
1 |
| The Tech Pledge, and Netflix competing with sleep |
2019-09-12 |
7 |
23 |
4 |
| Meditation notes: boredom as a voice, not an experience |
2019-09-09 |
11 |
26 |
0 |
| Why conflicting priority orderings make us do the least important thing |
2019-09-09 |
7 |
22 |
1 |
| When willingness to leave a relationship functions as coercion |
2019-09-04 |
7 |
25 |
0 |
| An alarm clock app that plays last night's voice recording |
2019-08-31 |
9 |
29 |
1 |
| Meditation journal: losing the breath count and thought addiction |
2019-08-12 |
27 |
61 |
0 |
| Triune brain, hemispheres, and using oversimplified maps |
2019-08-11 |
11 |
27 |
0 |
| Trying to pin down what metadharma means |
2019-08-07 |
13 |
30 |
3 |
| Tracking meditation on Beeminder and practicing shi-nè |
2019-08-03 |
6 |
45 |
2 |
| Wanting composable editors for trees, tables, prose, and threads |
2019-07-31 |
4 |
30 |
5 |
| A script that simulates a quote-tweet notifications tab |
2019-07-29 |
7 |
33 |
1 |
| Contextualizing the case for crying at work |
2019-07-26 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
| A taxonomy of what writers do: integrate, distill, expand, extend |
2019-07-19 |
10 |
8 |
0 |
| Replies vs quote tweets as directional links between tweets |
2019-07-18 |
8 |
20 |
2 |
| How a song title carries the artist's commentary |
2019-07-18 |
11 |
16 |
0 |
| Meme drives: gene drives applied to self-replicating ideas |
2019-07-18 |
11 |
37 |
0 |
| Things I want to exist: apps, tools, and funding mechanisms |
2019-07-18 |
21 |
136 |
14 |
| Design notes for a conversation-optimized Twitter replacement |
2019-07-18 |
17 |
79 |
9 |
| Features I want in ebook readers and reading apps |
2019-07-18 |
16 |
127 |
17 |
| Revisiting a 2011 bucket list |
2019-07-17 |
8 |
18 |
1 |
| You can't be anti-something without being for something |
2019-07-14 |
8 |
20 |
0 |
| Why feelings want to move, and unpublished old drafts |
2019-07-12 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
| Publishing ideas without writing the introduction first |
2019-07-11 |
10 |
112 |
1 |
| Feeling emotions fully vs stripping them of meaning |
2019-07-09 |
7 |
13 |
0 |
| Bergson on intuition, perception, and change as base |
2019-07-06 |
10 |
10 |
2 |
| Packing for Doug Tataryn's Bio-Emotive retreat at MAPLE |
2019-06-21 |
7 |
32 |
0 |
| What makes a just-in-time reading recommendation |
2019-06-12 |
7 |
19 |
2 |
| Why McGilchrist's hemisphere model beats System 1/System 2 talk |
2019-06-07 |
7 |
23 |
0 |
| Enlightenment models, Culadasa, and hemisphere lateralization |
2019-06-07 |
9 |
14 |
0 |
| The only constant is change, and what the left hemisphere wants |
2019-06-06 |
18 |
66 |
0 |
| Suddenly grokking the wisdom behind old platitudes |
2019-06-06 |
4 |
59 |
4 |
| Withness vs aboutness thinking and the brain hemispheres |
2019-06-02 |
6 |
27 |
2 |
| Distinguishing pain from harm, and discomfort from wanting to stop |
2019-05-30 |
4 |
30 |
3 |
| Generic drug markups and the prospect of DIY insulin |
2019-05-29 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
| The double bind of teaching independence, and showing instead of teaching |
2019-05-29 |
5 |
103 |
16 |
| How authoritarian cultures suppress creativity by undermining self-trust |
2019-05-28 |
6 |
66 |
4 |
| Simulating memetic spread and the incentives of academic research |
2019-05-27 |
11 |
24 |
2 |
| Why the Twitter Intellectual Internet excites me: co-creation and intertwinglement |
2019-05-17 |
15 |
103 |
3 |
| Tweets as timestamped thoughts and a renounce button |
2019-05-16 |
6 |
40 |
1 |
| Earning wealth in the context of society and infrastructure |
2019-05-16 |
15 |
118 |
6 |
| Why naming that community "inter-intellect" worries me |
2019-05-15 |
21 |
115 |
2 |
| Meta-thread of threads on McGilchrist's brain hemispheres |
2019-05-14 |
38 |
229 |
15 |
| Spectrum of Ecstasy and McGilchrist's hemisphere model |
2019-05-14 |
8 |
37 |
2 |
| Perceptual control theory, wanting, and internal conflict |
2019-05-12 |
10 |
42 |
6 |
| Searching for English words that point at groupness |
2019-05-09 |
18 |
14 |
0 |
| Spatialization: imagining shapes instead of images |
2019-05-09 |
7 |
26 |
3 |
| Complex systems and the limits of Deutsch's optimism |
2019-05-06 |
16 |
99 |
3 |
| Low neuroticism, emotional agility, and hyperthymic temperament |
2019-04-26 |
7 |
18 |
3 |
| Woo people have a trainable sensory modality rationalists lack |
2019-04-23 |
4 |
32 |
2 |
| Mapping the schools of Buddhism: sutra, tantra, dzogchen |
2019-04-19 |
6 |
25 |
3 |
| Context on effective altruism's relationship with AI risk |
2019-04-13 |
18 |
53 |
2 |
| When someone tells you something you already know |
2019-04-07 |
9 |
6 |
0 |
| Forgiveness as the absence of resentment |
2019-04-03 |
11 |
77 |
4 |
| Onboarding newcomers into Twitter's threading culture |
2019-04-02 |
9 |
77 |
4 |
| Anger as the left hemisphere's substitute for grief |
2019-04-02 |
7 |
20 |
2 |
| Chronos, kairos, and designing Complice against gridded time |
2019-03-25 |
7 |
23 |
0 |
| Twitter thread ownership as a metaphor for who steers a conversation |
2019-03-23 |
8 |
25 |
0 |
| The shattered Overton Window and finding common ground |
2019-03-19 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
| Trading truth for coherence, authoritarianism, and the left hemisphere |
2019-03-18 |
7 |
10 |
0 |
| Fragments extracted from longer works that stand on their own |
2019-03-08 |
6 |
143 |
19 |
| Training a shift toward right-hemisphere perspective |
2019-03-01 |
8 |
133 |
14 |
| Steering with attractors versus repulsors across dimensions |
2019-02-27 |
6 |
12 |
0 |
| Static societies, the Enlightenment, and modern double-binds |
2019-02-27 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
| Why fear-based motivation can't be aimed |
2019-02-27 |
11 |
155 |
14 |
| Erik Olin Wright and seeing the utopias already present |
2019-02-09 |
9 |
12 |
0 |
| Missing backlinks on Twitter and getting lost in the rhizome |
2019-02-08 |
11 |
24 |
0 |
| Asking what your attention feeds and incentivizes |
2019-02-01 |
5 |
33 |
6 |
| Two near-identical year-planning workshops on the same weekend |
2019-01-04 |
10 |
6 |
1 |
| Why todo lists miss deep work, and needing four inboxes |
2018-12-16 |
6 |
10 |
3 |
| Different kinds of goals need different definitions of "enough" |
2018-11-12 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
| Curating a feed by dropping instrumental half-relationships |
2018-01-17 |
9 |
9 |
0 |
| Transcending regret and the do-over koan |
2017-12-01 |
4 |
53 |
1 |
| Reliability and validity data for the Subject-Object Interview |
2017-07-26 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
| Why editorial feedback triggers shame instead of useful revision |
2017-07-06 |
15 |
37 |
2 |
| Designing moods into your work: duration calibration and method acting |
2017-07-03 |
9 |
3 |
2 |
| Schmidhuber on compression, surprise, and why fractals feel beautiful |
2017-06-19 |
6 |
12 |
1 |
| Losing 2700 words to an editor that never saved |
2014-10-25 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
| Contextual memory and the feeling of meeting internet friends |
2014-02-26 |
6 |
0 |
0 |