211 entries under "thought"

Start where you are instead of implementing a concept, especially somebody else's concept—an overarching strategy isn't necessary.

Only on #Mastodon do I see people judging others being on #Substack and #X, seemingly implying that they are better humans for not being on it.

Purist reductions of any platform and the people there to it's worst policy is lazy; it's harder and more meaningful to actually help.

When confronted with a choice between more financial security (stability) or more meaning, what would persuade you to pursue the latter?

Putting something on the internet is unfortunately default public (insecure / opt-out) unless you can personally verify that it's not, which might be impossible.

Rate my theory: I've seen an uptick in 'your year in review' summaries from apps & even phone providers. By packaging their surveillance of us in the form of pie charts & wacky slogans these firms are trying to normalize data extraction as a form of fun self-exploration

If you want to study the economy, consider studying anthropology, sociology, geography, law, politics, psychology, and even biology and physics

If you want to study a very narrow method for analysing very narrow aspects of the economy, consider studying economics, maths & stats

Our current dominant political system used to impress people like old infomercials, but is increasingly understood as the phony sales pitch it has long been.

People don't like build systems but they love static-site generators.

If money is all the machine understands, we can only be heard by putting money where our mouth is.

[RSS turns the web into tapas.]

In the physical world, we buy insurance to guard against adverse situations and contingencies.

In the digital world, we make backups or copies.

Imagine every thought and action as sound that raises the loudness measured on a 'sound meter', then practice less activity to let the volume level drop as low and long as possible.

"I have no opinions, just concerns."

The largest social network where I actually look forward to participate is the blogosphere.

[1. Distribute a self-hostable package; 2. Releases are free to distribute and use, source not available; 3. Offer free community support channels via a forum or chat; 4. Provide source and extended community access for a monthly fee; 5. Automatically make the source available on a rolling basis delayed by one year.]

[Confidence is like a shrug: "Okay, no problem."]

[Share a list of ways you can help as a consultant, then offer a sliding scale of hourly rates.]

At this point I basically upgrade iOS when there are new Progressive Web App features.

If you have a website, what are your earliest meaningful links that still work? I have almost no broken links since 2012.

a "protocol" sync engine, with multiple storage backends, and hooks to tie into "storage providers", would be an amazing public good