Rosano / Journal

193 entries under "thought"

Friday, December 12, 2025

learning and teaching are two sides of the same coin, so caring or not caring about one implies the same about the other

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

technical or nerdy ones mind might enjoy "reading the docs/spec/manual" while everyone else looks for "show me how to be amazing"

Saturday, November 22, 2025

new to me: when the mind wanders while reading, skip ahead instead of going back

Monday, October 27, 2025

[All communities need a mind programmer they trust. Today we call it "memetic engineer", "influencer", or "political leader", whereas before it was "priest" or "shaman".]

Friday, October 17, 2025

Choosing to 'skip over parts' is reading because reflects a choice about what's being processed.

If I've absorbed a point through my own lived experience or heard of it in another context, I'm still "reading" the idea as I recognize it well enough to skip over.

Cultural or self-inflicted frowning upon 'screens causing us to skim rather than read' creates pressure to do things 'properly', but the standard is not relevant: set your own objectives and make your own meaning.

Skipping is about feeling when you're not connected and moving to yes.

Thursday, October 16, 2025

The average entrepreneur faces mild shame and maybe bankruptcy proceedings if their venture doesn’t work out, but even then they tend to maintain strong networks, saved money and cultural clout.

the greatest risk-takers in our society aren’t the tech bros on the cover of Wired Magazine, or the person with a Forbes profile.

A person who takes really hardcore risk might face starvation, destitution or deportation if their gamble doesn’t work.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

if a project evolves continuously, it may be worth tracking changes for who the audience is: it currently serves X, Y, and Z people, but new possibilities or priorities would trigger different messaging.

coming from the question "who can benefit while this is incomplete?"

Sunday, October 5, 2025

a bridge goes both ways

Friday, September 26, 2025

nobody can take away your files

Monday, September 22, 2025

atproto, nostr, webxdc, solid, remotestorage, and 'dApps' each have a different focus and data flow.

but i can't help but see them as collections of "web apps".

and think it'd be possible and cool to give each web app the combined user base of the others.

might not share the network, but you can share the gui.

is it naive to wish that their web apps could support multiple or all of these instead of rebuilding similar apps per platform? isn't it made of the same stuff/standards but just read/writing data differently?

when i see "writing, photos, bookmarks, todos" rewritten because "platform", i can't help but think of "5 networks of screenshots posted from the other 4".

Monday, September 15, 2025

The Left looks for traitors, the Right looks for converts.

Sunday, August 31, 2025

the hard thing about starting a habit is often unclarity on how to integrate, more so than the action itself.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

i find this counterfeit money logic a bit weird where the seller avoids accepting large bills for small purchases, but if they accept them for large purchase it seems equally bad

Saturday, August 23, 2025

"having a platform profile is like living in a single-room apartment, whereas having your own site is a castle with unlimited rooms."

Saturday, August 9, 2025

i learn from everyone, but the teacher is myself

Thursday, August 7, 2025

grouping these together:

  • military's "never give a command that won't be obeyed"
  • teacher anti-pattern of "instructions that the student can't follow"
  • basic-minded "using a foreign language to feel superior with someone who doesn't know it"

related to communication fails creating a false sense of authority and effectiveness. somehow everyone loses, but the speaker doesn't know.

Monday, August 4, 2025

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.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

"I don't read PDFs."

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

there are too many problems i've solved with nail clippers

composing (to place/put together) becomes necessary when you don't have everything