Write to remember if there is no other context into which you can encode it: social exchanges, creation, publishing are much more memorable.
Write to remember if there is no other context into which you can encode it: social exchanges, creation, publishing are much more memorable.
The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides
[Games can be played immediately and they steadily increase your skills over time, shortening the learning curve.]
[Games are fun because they employ exploratory learning: there is a goal with no indications of how to achieve it, players can faill and be told that they failed, they can also succeed and it feels good when they figure it out alone, during the learning process they explore the possibility space.]
[Games are built of STARS atoms that create learning feedback loops: Stimulate the player to experiment with Skills to discover Tools and Actions that play out within the environment's Rules.]
[Games assume that the people change, that the player at the beginning is not the same as the player at the end because of the skills they picked up along the way. Apps could adapt themselves to the dynamic people who use them, rather than providing a static set of tools for everyone.]
[Apps could be organized into levels based on the experience of who uses it, people advance through gated environments where they can safely practice important skills, they continue after mastering.]
[Rather than presenting all possibilities the same way forever, games employ a 'items' or 'powerups' or 'widgets' or 'addons' or 'extensions' pattern that celebrate modular bits of functionality earned with experience.]
[Quests are easy to understand and provide to reason to try each activity. LinkedIn has 'profile completeness' and prompts people to 'add a picture' and 'ask for a recommendation'.]
[The score provides a simple always-visible metric of progress.]
[Some games progress from a more guided 'advancement' mode to an 'elder' mode where the player needs to figure more out on their own.]
[Games have three skill types: 'pre-existing' are used in the first few minutes and help the interface feel intuitive; 'rewarded' are finite and not initially known but taught through STARS atoms via punishment and reward; 'emergent' are potentially infinite and not rewarded.]
[Gamification is profitable because it combines delightful experiences with ease-of-use and depth.]
"Skip": exponential-backoff deferral mechanisms and fuzzy inboxes
Some techniques can help up front: don't "stockpile" material for some future day; avoid writing prompts in response to a feeling of "should"; write about connections, consequences, implications—not just about facts; avoid tangential "orphan questions"; etc. But this isn't enough. Review sessions need ongoing grooming to stay interesting. If you don't add anything new for a while, your sessions will feel stale. If you often forget an answer, you must refactor the question or risk future eye-rolls.
Systematically deny trolls a platform.
[It's not enough to share and subscribe to block lists. Take collective action to pressure developers to incorporate the trust networks into their apps.]
[Decentralizing is incompatible with rapid evolution because it's difficult to change.]
[Censorship residtence is easier in centralized environments because you can move quickly and the cost of change is low.]
[The PINs used to receive push notifications can reveal your phone number.]
[To build systems that fail gradually enough for recovery efforts to be effective.]
[Effort balancing is to ensure that the computational cost of a request is greater than that of producing a response.]
[The Internet Archive is effectively a collection of samples. Some data loss adds noise, but there are enough samples that it won't really make a difference.]
[The more random a system is, the harder it is to attack.]
[The social media stream is a form of television: highly visual; auto-playing videos; advertising; short snippets of unrelated content; centralized; just scroll.]
When I log on to Facebook, my personal television starts. All I need to do is to scroll: New profile pictures by friends, short bits of opinion on current affairs, links to new stories with short captions, advertising, and of course self-playing videos. I occasionally click on like or share button, read peoples' comments or leave one, or open an article. But I remain inside Facebook, and it continues to broadcast what I might like. This is not the web I knew when I went to jail. This is not the future of the web. This future is television.
Replace Your To-Do List With Interstitial Journaling To Increase Productivity
[The most pragmatic path to genius is to break problems into pieces your brain can handle than your brain.]
[Part of interstitial journaling is to clarify the next action.]
Let's talk about electoral politics and Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
[Those who prefer electoral politics need grassroots organizers to put progressive people in office. Those who prefer grassroots organization need those who prefer electoral politics because the government cannot be ignored.]
[Start with the perspective that the scream is an inevitable consequence of capitalist society and the established 'facts' of state, money, commodity, value become revealed as processes. Money becomes monetization, value valorization, commodity commodification, capital capitalization, power domination, state stateification.]
[The state reproduces capitalist social relations but through trial and error, not in a functionalist fashion.]
[By separating and categorizing certain social relations as 'political' or 'economic', the state reconstitutes itself as separate from society. By characterizing conflict as political, it distracts from questioning the legitimacy of economic ideas such as private property. It is defined and sub-defined to ensure that the proper channels of the bureaucracy will be dispatched to deal with it.]
[Capital is not tied to a specific group or place. The transition from feudalism to capitalism liberated power-over from geographic borders.]
[National states continuously fragment global social relations by asserting their sovereignty.]
[Citizenship / citizenization reproduces the mirage of democracy and the daily violence against foreigners.]
[Money appears to be established and unchangeable, but the appearance negates our struggle; monetization has no moment to relax in the comfort of guaranteed existence.]
[The existence of capital is insecure, if it fails to exploit labour then it ceases to exist, hence the ferocity of its struggle.]
[Capitalism is two-faced: it instability which fragments is what generates the appearance of stability.]
[Repetition of the exploitative process, as well as repetition of the anti-exploitative process, changes the conditions in which the struggle takes place.]
[The struggle against fetishization is not democratic, which is commonly considered to be a coming together of individuals, but rather it is a struggle of those who are all part of the movement against that which maims and perverts us.]
[Social recognition of your labour is no longer possible when you are creating commodities to be sold on the market: it is money, not labour, that tells you whether what you are doing is socially useful.]
If the separation of done from the doing is fragmenting, does would the reconnection be harmonizing?
[Marx describes the dehumanizing aspect of capitalism: it inverses relationships to the point where workers become the instruments of money, capital and machines; social relations are between things (money and the state, your money and mine) whereas human 'individuals' are merely there to exchange commodities.]
[Because we actively participate in the reproduction of capitalism, it is assumed that the state of affairs is permanent, unchangeable, and perhaps always was that way.]
[The separation of doing and done implies a capital class and labour class.]
[Doing is movement; in doing I go beyond myself; in doing, it is impossible to say that 'the world is' or that 'I am'; in doing there is no identity.]
[When doing is broken, the contradictions possible in movement are subordinated by definitive perspectives: 'the world is this way', 'that's the way things are'.]
[When doing is broken, doing is reduced to labour, to 'doing-in-the-service-of-capital-expansion'. Labour becomes quantitative: measured by hours, producing something to be sold for a price, producing value, rewarded by a wage. Doing becomes a train that moves ever faster but along pre-established tracks. Time becomes space, clock time, tick-tick time, where one tick is the same as another, time that moves but stays still, treadmill time.]
[There is no distinction between the doing of the user and of the maker.]
[Community becomes an aggregation of distinct individuals as opposed to the flow of doing. The bourgeois notion of science assumes capitalism to be permanent and considers it a virtue to distance the individual from community; he further away he is from the society he studies, the better; ideally the observer would be on the moon so as to remain maximally objective. This attempt at scientific objectivity is based upon the false idea that the thinker can be excluded while expressing his thought.]
[We write in the third-person to be scientific – first-person discourse such as 'I am bored of political parties' or 'we want a better life' is seen as unscientific.]
[Study is of or about something to distance the object from those who study it, which is another form of power-over: the best are the ones who can look at things from the outside, as a passive viewer as opposed to an active participant; the theory seperated from the theorist and can be 'applied' to the world.]
[Definition aims to not contradict; x cannot be non-x; the world becomes cleanly divided; if I am x, I cannot be y; the y becomes the Other. The not-Us (Jews, Blacks, Irish) is used to abstract horrible acts enacted upon others.]
[Identity fractures the doing and ultimately reinforces capital.]
[Sometimes asserting an identity can have an anti-identitarian meaning based on the context: to say 'I am Black' in a context of racial discrimination versus in a context of racism towards non-Blacks; to say 'I am Jewish' in Nazi Germany versus in Israel.]
[Reason has transformed from the pursuit of the good and true to that of the formally correct. It has more to do with formal mathematical logic than to do with understanding. Preferences between liberty and obedience, democracy and fascism, enlightenment or authority are seen as subjective. Reason becomes the means to an end rather than a critique of the end.]
[Identity is the antithesis of mutual recognition. By defining myself as x, independant of anyone else's recognition, my relations to others are not fundamental to my being.]
[The doer seperates from doing is also separated from the social tapestry and is a 'free' individual: free from responsibility to the community and free from meaningful participation in collective doing. The subject of bourgeois theory is an innocent, healthy, self-determining individual - any psychological problems are personal and not a result of a broken system. The more separated we are, the more identity is beyond question, the more unfree we are, the more liberated we appear to be.]
[Identification, definition, classification is not just mental but also a physical process. Jews were subjected to this in concentration camps. The bureaucratic power of the state functions similarly.]
[Power cannot be taken because it is not possessed by any person or institution: it lies in the fragmentation of social relations.]
[The state is exactly what the word suggests: a bulwark against change, against the flow of doing, the embodiment of identity.]
[Work not towards a theory of domination, but a theory of the vulnerability of domination.]
[The weakness of capital is that it cannot exist without labour.]
[Power-to exists in the form of power-over, doing exists in the form of labour, done exists in the form of capital, social flow exists as fragmentation, the content is dominated by the form.]
[Rulers always depend on their subjects, capital on labour.]
[Laziness can be anti-thetical to capitalist exploitation.]
[To scream is human. To go beyond is an expression of humanity.]
[It's impossible to do anything yourself - every action is made possible by an invisible collaboration between interdependant humans.]
[Screaming without being able to do anything is reducing oneself to a bee-like creature that can only reproduce.]
[The power to do something is never individual and always social, dependent on others.]
[The 'powerful men' cannot actually do anything, they command others to fulfill their wishes.]
[Capital dominates others by owning the 'done'.]
[Capital robs and the state supplies the weapons.]
[Capital breaks the collective 'we' into 'I / you / he / she / they'.]
[It's naive to think that social relations contain themselves to the state. The term globalization highlights what has always been true, that capitalist social relations have always gone beyond territorial borders.]
[Capitalism freed exploitation from national limitations by abstracting the worker through money.]
[The political party subordinates other forms of class struggle to the aim of controlling the state. In aiming to increase state control, all struggles get placed in a hierarchy. The real struggle against what we deeply refuse gets lost the moment power-building takes precedence, way before the party 'betrays' its promises. You can't build a society free of power relations by conquering power. Conquest of power embeds power relations into the struggle itself as opposed to abolishing power relations all together.]
[Both reform and revolution assume the means of state control as a vehicle of long-term social progress.]
[The stock market rises when unemployment increases.]
[The anger and rage we feel comes from a deep recognition of what is wrong with the world, but forces try to gradually distance us from this feeling: first we question ourselves, then we assume we need to learn about the problem, then in the process of academic discourse the emotion becomes more abstract and objectified, finally the transformation from 'we' to 'they' disconnects us from the feeling.]
[Writing with a 'neutral' starting point in the third person assumes the suppression of the 'we'.]
[The rejection of what is may be imprecise or flawed, but it deserves validation and serious critique, not dismissal.]
[Anti-capitalist resistance must be discordant: We who argue amongst each other, and construct the We by arguing.]
[Thinking collectively may include collective statements but it is really about the back and forth of arguing.]
[Neither right nor left, but grassroots.]
[Nobody is opposition, only misinformed, miseducated, unclear-thinking.]
[Ideology against ideologies.]
[We don't know, but let's do it together. The result is less important than the means.]