Musician’s own website as definitive source of all info
I think the musician’s own “.com” homepage website should be the one-and-only place the musician ever has to enter their info. It should be the sole definitive source for their music, photos, bio, lyrics, calendar, blog, and especially their fan/friend/email list.
Tagged: interop.
How to organise yourself - the dangerous path to Explorer, Villager and Town Planners
Be prepared to be shocked, that's the horror of looking.
This is like a guide on how to run a company or organization.
Tagged: succeed.
[Include enough context (such as what, when, why, and the plan) so that the reader can make more informed prioritization of how to handle it.]
Tagged: contribute, learn.
[With a modular enough system, people can simply curate components or plugins into a kind of software experience, requiring less effort or technical skill than programming.]
Tagged: interop.
Why don’t the Democrats adopt the obvious winning strategies?
[Since the Clinton era, US Democrats want to lose because it enables them to continue campaign funding as a lucrative income, as the Republicans started to do decades earlier.]
Tagged: power.
Do you have ten years of experience? or ten of the same year?
Tagged: succeed.
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
[Instead of saving an hour from not having to walk an hour to work, speed and distance increases so that we spend a comparable amount of time occupied with new trajectories.]
Tagged: digital.
[It's fine to stop a video to talk about one frame, but we cannot separate it from the moving picture of life: we're always in motion.]
How Close Is That Photo to the Truth? What to Know in the Age of AI
[The camera's photon sensor converts light into pixel data and makes guesses about how much red, green, and blue to represent in each one.]
[Breaking up the image into multiple frames helps better represent shadows and skies while reducing noise.]
[Cameras make choices about how to make photos more vivid or different skin colors better represented, and decide how to store them for maximum compression.]
Tagged: digital.
More Money For Better Open-Source Software
I am going to emphasize, in the docs, the license file, and the communication surrounding the project, that free-loading is not socially acceptable. Along with this, I will provide convenient mechanisms to donate. The code of financial conduct would be something like this:
- If you are a non-commercial user, don't worry about it.
- If I fix a bug you reported or add a feature you wanted and you have the financial means, a one-time tip is much appreciated. Even if this is unlikely to add up to serious money, it takes the one-sidedness out of the process of responding to user requests.
- If you are extracting value from your use of my software, set up a proportional monthly donation.
The monthly part is the important thing here. Having to periodically beg a user base to please contribute to a donation drive again is a drag, and not very effective. Convincing users to donate as long as they get value from the software gives a maintainer a more or less predictable, low-maintenance source of compensations for their work.
Tagged: succeed.
"Things happen because you're open to it, right? If you're not interested, then there's no point."
"I wanted to delete the old ones, as I was a bit embarrassed by some of them, but it's good to keep them to know progress."
"It keeps me going. I feel improvement every time. Lots of work, but something to look forward to."
Filhos de Bimba. Demonstration
Seamless flow, nothing stops, question and answer are one.
"I thought they wouldn't be friendly because it was a war-torn zone, but it was the opposite of my thinking."
Handstand progression with a wall
[First stage; keep your knees bent and touch your toes. Second stage: stretch one leg up straight. Third stage: loosen your toe touching the wall a bit. Fourth stage: loosen it even more until you almost don't need to depend on it. Fifth stage: lift your toe away from the wall. Sixth stage: stretch the other leg. Give some weeks per stage and get comfortable holding for twenty seconds before advancing to the next.]
flip the power dynamic with the high ground.
[When someone talks down to you, 1) flip it around with 'this way of speaking is beneath me'; 2) assert authority by 'allowing' or 'giving them another chance' to try that again'; and 3) express that you are 'willing to continue the conversation if they speak respectfully'.]
Tagged: relate.
Interoperability is people connecting, communicating, collaborating.
Tagged: interop.
'Capoeira should be fun' can extend to the game itself; the movement you admire is never in frenzy; always calma, giving time and space, not allowing someone else to make you hyperventilate; how can it feel more like effortless language exchange?
We can even extend this farther: how can everything be fun? more like that? fluid conversation with yourself and the stars.
