[Run AI LLMs locally on your computer]
[Run AI LLMs locally on your computer]
Yancey Strickler on Metalabel and Post-Individualism
[Revolutions inspired by Catholic church forbidding intra-family marriage gave rise to cities, universities, guilds as ways for people related by blood to meet eachother.]
A Fediverse, if you can keep it
Companies might serve as on-ramps, but at the end of the day this is a network of people sharing things with other people. You’re not blocking Meta; you’re blocking countless people who would otherwise stand to benefit from the open nature of the network. And the cruel irony here is that preemptive blocking is what will ultimately destroy the Fediverse as we know it. People want to connect with one another, and they’re going to do it one way or another. (And we’re right back to WhatsApp again.)
How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership?
Programmers’ chief value does not come from producing code. It comes from knowing enough about the situation to solve automation and scaling problems. Code that doesn’t solve those problems is worthless to the organization. If code that doesn’t solve those problems gets deployed somewhere, it’s worse than worthless because it incurs maintenance costs in addition to being worthless.
Perhaps even more importantly, though, they ensure that the wrong thing does not get done. And that is what makes them look worthless: their chief outcome is the absence of something. […] It’s the breaches that didn’t happen because someone double-checked what this SQL did. It’s the multi-server failure that did not occur because two separate engineers saw the warning signs and one responded to the other in a messaging channel. It’s the disaster feature that got killed because someone who understands inclusion demonstrated how it might be used to attack a marginalized constituency.
It’s all about appearing nice so they never have to be kind.
Make time for flowers.
[Disagree without getting them defensive with phrases like “I see it differently”, “I have a different way of getting there”, and “I lean towards the opposite”.]
[Having to argue for equality reveals that the situation is already failed.]
[If that’s the best you’ve got, I can see why you’re so eager to use it.]
[There’s a difference between agreeing and choosing agreement as your ‘move’ in a specific context.]
[Combine baking soda with glue to strengthen the bonding.]
Spreadsheets are like functions with built-in visualization of meaningful inputs and outputs.
What incentivizes a business to treat existing customers better than new ones?
Let’s talk about what a concept of Japanese art can teach us about masculinity….
[Masculinity embodies effortless perfection, and a giveaway that someone’s pretending is to see them trying.]
Let’s talk about 1916, 1984, thought, and rebellion….
[Anything that can be taught by a meme can be countered by one.]
Let’s talk about what happens “if you don’t get an education”….
[Don’t confuse credentials with education.]
[‘Representatives’ should also have something in common with you.]
Profound difference in approach between recreating something familiar and the curiosity of relating to where you currently are.
How Jacob Collier Reinvented The Guitar
[Being uncertain and curious is a more interesting place for me than knowing what I’m doing.]
[More important than recognizing the name or function of the notes played, I have an awareness of their emotional properties and how they will pull the listener into specific spaces.]
[It’s popular and valid to recreate and enjoy something you heard before; try to be clear when you want that versus something new.]
[Rather than have a disciplined practice regime, I find myself in specific and tsrgeted moments of deep exploration.]
[One of the best gifts you can give to an audience is to fumble, because it’s an invitation for them to join you at the edge of your own exploration where mist of the interesting stuff is. Music isn’t really that serious.]
A master with the humility to learn on camera.
Who does it serve when an economy costs you more and more over time?
Money is not timeless.
[Easier to write a few notes per day than one manuscript page per day.]
[Ideas don’t mingle in an archive: let them play together.]
[The skill of independent research is determining what is the most important task at any moment; following a plan prevents you from learning this.]
Archiving ideas, even if you write them in your own words, doesn’t prompt making connections.
A great way to solve problems to not have them.