296 entries under "thought"

Money is not timeless.

A great way to solve problems to not have them.

The more we need to represent our own interests (because 'representatives' won't), the more power decentralizes.

Language compresses thoughts into a lossy format, like blurry images.

It's okay to want what you want, even if you don't know why.

I'd rather be uncorrupted 'like a child' than detached from my essence 'like an adult'.

Protocols will not make data fluid and interoperable without people talking to each other and making it happen.

Typing in 2FA codes is a mistake regardless of how elegantly designed the form is.

Follow what feels fun instead of clever ideas.

Avoid social structures that use a calculator.

There are no leftist startups.

If schemas are like language then they're also better negotiated through common usage.

Indigenous people don't destroy land. People who love land don't destroy it.

Chronically making excuses is a missed opportunity to develop resilience through adapting to diverse circumstances.

Is it just my ignorance or is most 'representative democracy' actually not so?

One of the coolest things I've been told about jazz is that the better you are as a player, the better experts sound. I've been called a talented musician but I am absolutely, unabashedly ecstatic to hear music that I can barely understand what's happening. The piano and that sax solo mostly sound like random chaos and it excites me to know there's structure and intent and beauty in there, waiting to be understood by the skill I have yet to achieve.

[Skip the self-signup and require participation when releasing a new product. Feedback cycles are more important that 'how many free users left today?'. Building automation is hard anyway and steals resources from what people actually want.]

The mind separates, the body integrates.

Imprisoned in every UI is a concatenative REPL operating on a stack. Buttons do "type function + Enter," GUI renders return stack.

Are there examples of the opposite of this where "imprisoned in every command-line program is a GUI that lets you discover its features" or "type command with arguments becomes a button"?

When capitalism responds, it acknowledges how large a demographic is.