[Test the market with these questions: 1. Have people asked for your help? 2. Are there enough of them willing to pay for your expertise? 3. Are other businesses serving the market but without your approach?]
[Test the market with these questions: 1. Have people asked for your help? 2. Are there enough of them willing to pay for your expertise? 3. Are other businesses serving the market but without your approach?]
Capoeira Music Practice: Profa Minha Velha
Mixture of leading and harmonizing. Big sound with 7 people; sounds like there's more instruments than there actually are.
Tagged: capoeira.
Winning, for bloggers, means writing the reference take on a good topic. My favourite example of this is how Byrne Hobart broke out with his piece on the 30-year mortgage. It’s kind of surprising that this kind of post had such influence - it’s wonky, it’s not written for a general audience whatsoever. But it turns out that people think and talk about their mortgages a lot, and like to feel competent when they do. Reading that piece equips them with a kind of legitimacy to speak on the topic.
One lesson hiding in plain sight here is that most of the audience of any successful post does not actually read it. They are told it by someone who did read it. There’s a primary audience who carefully reads the piece and does the cognitive work of “restructuring their consciousness” (see Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy) around good writing. And then there’s a secondary audience, who are re-told the content, either verbally (including group chats, podcasts, Youtube) or in other oral formats like Twitter.
This is why, paradoxically, to reach the widest audience, you write to the narrow audience. Your objective as a writer is to give your primary audience material they’ll want to re-tell. They do the work of translating it to wider audiences in specific contexts; you do the general articulation in rich detail.
My first open source psyop - postmortem
[Information asymmetry is not only about lies, but whether someone can hear the correction or feedback.]
Capoeira Angola: Contra Mestre Gato Preto (GCFA) e Contra Mestre Reny (Oke Aro)
Seems like they escape so fluidly that they must stop to appreciate.
Tagged: capoeira.
Crazy flying cartwheel at 5:50.
Tagged: capoeira.
What's the psychological impact of no platform, no ads, and no random obfuscation of my work?
Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI!
[On our behalf, unelected Californians are making decisions about our collective future, justified through media and slogans.]
[Whereas having 50 extra IQ points in today's world makes a difference, a future where everyone can borrow 4000 will render everyone's baseline irrelevant, and therefore: 1. we are all effectively equal, and 2. we all become peasants to the 1% as the middle class vanishes.]
i learn from everyone, but the teacher is myself
For many people, terms like ActivityPub, Fediverse, bridge, protocol, server, toot, boost, and Webfinger are alienating and confusing. They subtly imply that unless you understand what all these words mean, this might not be the place for you; in the same way crypto terms—blockchain, web3, wallet, keypair, nonce—are a wall of jargon that scream "you don't belong here" to normal people.
To send an email, you don't need to know what SMTP, IMAP, POP, DKIM, SPF, or DMARC are. To browse the web, there's no requirement to understand HTTP, DNS, servers, SSL, TTL, load balancing, or caches. The most significant impact these protocols have is perhaps that users never have to think about them.
How can we embrace spontaneity and connect with the beautiful potential around us?
grouping these together:
related to communication fails creating a false sense of authority and effectiveness. somehow everyone loses, but the speaker doesn't know.
Treinel Onça Branca (Ngoma) e prof. Negao (Capoeira sem fronteira)
Example of how someone with more experience can make it easy to play beautifully together.
Tagged: capoeira.
Over time, you start repeating yourself, rewriting the same paragraph for different people, reposting the same message in different groups, reframing the same problem with different jargon. And when something finally connects, it often feels like luck. Like you just happened to be visible at the right moment.
This is the system we pretend works: discovery as noise, identity as content, and visibility as a full-time job.
i continue to be blown away by local community centers all over the world and how they offer so much that isn't legible or relevant to technological systems – the underrated potential of not needing platforms to care for or live with your neighbours.
[Value means helping people. Giving more value means helping people more.]
[Features describe, whereas benefits are emotional.]
learn to teach so others can learn