Journal

56 entries for Germany

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Social media keeps the locus of attention on small formats, which makes it easy to weaponize for misinformation.

Monday, April 29, 2024

“don’t want to do tech but doing it anyway”

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Don’t Fuck It Up!

[Randomize your MAC address often.]

[Tor is for anonymity, not encryption: you need to configure it to avoid sending unencrypted data.]

Monday, June 5, 2023

[Most people buy transactionally to make money or get laid, and non-transactionally to support things they like. Framing yourself as a utility lands you in the first category. People want a parasocial relationship with creators, and will pay to feel excused from not trying the creative path themselves. Doing and publishing isn’t enough to land you in the second category: documenting and explaining in an artful way can become as important as what you’re making. Maintaining a community implies being more active on social media.]

[Try camming.]

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

How can you read when you’re still a beginner?

[Whether you need X, Y, Z, A, B, I’ve got something for you.]

[I’ve spent years writing these courses.]

[Whether you’re a beginner, or intermediate and want to improve…]

[It’s all free via email and at different levels.]

[Sign up and I’ll get them to you right away.]

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Earning $100 a day for 200 days in the year is $20K.

Earning $200 a day for 90 days in the year is $18K.

Earning $300 a day for 60 days in the year is $18K.

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Let’s talk about what they’re going after next….

[Don’t throw your hands up just because it’s not a permanent solution: we’re in for a long fight.]

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Prefer practices to rules.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Take decisions and write them down.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

[It’s hard to see how funny-shaped the box is from inside.]

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

I like people who can take pleasure in ordinary experience.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

[The ‘diamond model’ describes expanding to generate lots of ideas without judgement, followed by the convergence towards making choices about what is pertinent.’]

Information wants to be free but rent isn’t.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

[I don’t apologize.]

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

If you’re feeling intimidated, let them stretch you.