The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
[They would coordinate mass emailing on Sunday (to clog inboxes at the start of the week) and Wednesday (pressuring the target to resolve it before the weekend). They did this without referencing GamerGate because it could be too easy to filter.]
[The GamerGate reasoning stated directly would sound like: 'Feminism is about equality and so if a woman can use her sexuality to her advantage and men are not able to, Feminism is invalid'.]
[Silicon Valley's double-bind is: your similarity validates my idea and I like you for that, but it also makes us rivals and I hate you for that.]
[Company shutdowns take a form similar to ancient rituals of human sacrifice: undifferentiation (VC-backed competition) is named as the scapegoat, the company is eulogized in a generic way (raised X and shut down), and then they 'celebrate failure' to shift the blame away from true causes and leave the door open for this to recur ('they died so that other companies could live').]
Crowd-owning campaign strategies
[Incentivize social sharing by creating lots of shareable content.]
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
[Winners and losers have the same goals. What differentiates is their system.]
[Focus on the system that creates the results you want.]
[Ditch your goals and fall in love with systems.]
Stripe Atlas: Guide to getting your first 10 customers
[Tell them that you know what you're doing, then show them an example, try to provide value just for making the time to read your message.]
[Scheduling is cognitive load, remove the burden and make it easy to say Yes: Do you have 15 minutes free this Thursday?]
[If they're busy Thursday, let them tell you that. Be respectful of their reading time.]
Goal Setting: A Scientific Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals
[Goal setting is as much about the pain and sacrifices you are willing to endure as the desired outcome.]
[Goals determine the destination, systems determine your progress.]
[Increase the likelihood of sticking to your goals by planning specifically when, where, and how you will do it.]
[Hook new plans before or after existing habits.]
[Opt in while you're feeling motivated so that when the time comes you will have to justify opting out.]
Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web
[In a decentralized model, the pattern of 'wait for the 'query and operate on all results' becomes 'query and respond to the result stream as updates arrive' because completeness can never be assumed.]
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Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard
[The product being advertised is not nearly as important as membership in the group that buys the product.]
[One is more likely to envy their peer than the king, because even though the king has much more, there is less distance between you and you peer. We fight not because we are different but because we are the same.]
[In Silicon Valley, envy is productive and creates more founders, as opposed to destructive with many people competing over a CEO title.]
[The collapse of distance online compromises our ability to desire things in a healthy way.]
[Trumpism rejects the idea that 'everyone is equal and we ought to be undifferentiated.]
The Psychology of Loneliness: Why You're Lonely and What to Do About It
[Even being around others with shared interests might make one feel lonely because values are different. Sharing values can outweigh connections based on shared interests")
[Keeping oneself busy to avoid their own thoughts; intellectualizing emotions, trying to 'fix' emotions instead of understanding them can create self-disconnection, making one feel lonely in their own body.]
[Chronic business can keep your connections shallow and not leave enough space to cultivate more meaningful connections.]
[Make a list of your three happiest days. Recall as many details as possible. Try to list common patterns between these days. Pick an activity that seems most appealing and list people that would also enjoy it.]
[Describing your emotion as 'stressed' or 'tired' is avoiding the actual emotion.]
Each node on the network increases the potential for discovering the other nodes. Plant seeds.
[Email is a hotter medium because its one-shot nature necessitates being clear and concise, leaving out ambiguity.]
[Hot and cool processing are like muscles: more use makes them stronger which makes us use them more.]
[The ubiquity of headphones has created more demand for hot, unambiguous content.]
[Do it 100 times.]
- fucking is labor, fuckability is capital.
[Instead of calling it out, help others see how it is cringeworthy.]
[It started a feminist awakening in me because I saw those cringeworthy patterns within myself.]
[argument from ridicule.]
How Substack Became Milquetoast
[Blogging has capped downside and unlimited upside. If create something mediocre, nobody talks about it. If it resonates, everyone thinks your a genius. Having more content gives you more options for someone to develop an interest in your work and follow what you're doing.]
[Better for authors to think persistently and write occasionally instead of the other way around.]
[A book that took 4 years to write and 10 hours to read is a 3500x return on time investment.]
[Nothing great will ever be written on Substack because the dynamics of monthly payments force you to publish at faster schedules and leave you with less space to think.]
[Each day you work endures is a closer step towards longevity and the possibility that it will become immortal.]
