open-source
I was first attracted to open source – public code that everybody relies upon – after observing that its developers are creating trillions of dollars in economic value, while giving away their code for free. The common explanation for this discrepancy is that open source is a volunteer group effort, like Wikipedia.
open-source
For me, it was open source developers that helped me make sense of the future. They've long experienced the frog-boiling that came with prior social norms of “everybody participates” butting up against the reality of “participation doesn't scale.” And they have to figure it out in
ai
Respond Quickly, Even If Not Personally One of the worst things you can do after receiving a contact form is to set it aside. Yes, if you’re a small-business owner, you likely have 100 other tasks on your plate, demanding your attention. But that doesn’t mean you can
anime
seems pretty suspicious they would draw those shadowy guys in the back![1] They all got those overly dramatic anime poses too, like: Calendar/Daily/2022-12-18: at time of writing -- Argentina narrowly cinched the world cup over France irl ↩︎
social-media
Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.December 18, 2022 This is probably the fastest I've seen a public user
vc-culture
Is this crazy? Yes. LinkedIn really flies under the radar as the social media platform that’s absolutely the most unhinged (View Tweet) Me, after deleting the 100th outbound email of the day (View Tweet)
content-creation
GitHub - Quorafind/Obsidian-Canvas-Presentation at obsidian-roundup is a promising plugin for content creation. In the past I've tried Excalidraw and Advanced Slides to make videos. Both felt pretty good, but they lacked the overall style I'm trying to achieve -- somewhere between Fireship and Isabel Paige
programming
Developers that don’t use GitHub Copilot right now 😂😂😂 (View Tweet) the value add of copilot is the minimization of the reliance on the internet. more time in the code editor == higher quality deep work. don't led side narratives blind you to this fact. unfortunately, along the way
writing
If you are in the writing game, do yourself a favor and read this blog post about writing for developers. Some of my favorite tips -- emphasis mine: tl;dr: * be bold about using bold * short headers, few letters * jump cuts work in text too * variety in sentence structure makes
humor
In a distracted attempt to write "Finding", I accidentally wrote "Fondong" and I paused in my tracks. Friends, I think "Fondong" may indeed be the funniest word ever written down on happenstance. In the The Beginning of Infinity, Deutsch talks about the universality of
humor
INT. YING-YANG MUSIC VIDEO SET - EVENING The actors take their places on set, an actress sits in the middle of empty set on a black couch, Ying Yang twins off set. Twin #1 is snoring in chair, is abruptly awakened by Twin #2 shaking his shoulder. Twin 2: Aye
Why did our ancestors develop agriculture, society, medicine, and the like? To survive. The elements of our world were once just solutions to fears. (Location 46) Very similar to the debunking David Deutsch did in The Beginning of Infinity about Spaceship Earth. The Earth is not a calm or peaceful