202 entries under "thought"

Old English had "he walks not there today", similar to other languages with negation after the verb. We change/contract that to "he doesn't walk there today". Perhaps a useful explaining device.

It can be a security tactic (around people who choose to deploy anger) that they become hard to estimate under unknown conditions. When anything can turn into an explosion, the environment becomes one of constant fear.

'Infectious agency' as a design goal so that features enable a feeling of so much possibility that everything else should have similar affordances.

Absurd to strive for reading continuously without stopping or reflecting on anything else. Thinking about the material can and perhaps should take you away for a moment—not simply an indicator of distraction that needs to be managed.

first they laugh,
then they want it,
then they can't have it

doing some programming after months of none, feels kind of absurd to do this regularly, takes so much to express an app, looking forward to something easier replacing this someday

• noticing several friends point out my habit of being highly self-critical, something i've been aware of but never realized how often it happens, working on it now
• somewhat aware but never tried to change it

(decentralize as) decomposing the remains of zombie networks too big to die so that new life can sprout everywhere like grass

"facts don't care about your feelings" is now my metaphor for futile forcing of logic on someone in an emotion-based position

Cooperation > Competition

help > hurt

if my purpose is to feel good and help others to feel good, then…

trying to make everything the same versus trynig to make everything different

We might be unnecessarily framing our limitations within a common narrative around why developers struggle to find collaborators. Doing this distracts from our unfair advantage of creating connection, which has been and can be a basis for many meaningful possibilities in our life. In the same way we can try to go beyond money to focus on the underlying need, we can go beyond traditional pathways to finding collaboration to focus on connecting with people and changing their lives, trusting that this will feed into our process positively. What are ways we can cultivate these kind of bonds with friends and strangers? How can we compose experiences or solutions from our broad skillset to blow away people with life-changing magic?

Where most people use the term community, we can use connection to play into our strengths.

Is the solo model misaligned when capacity for non-projects feels chronically impossible, yet fundamental milestones seem lightyears away? How much is a celebration of what can be accomplished by one person and how much is a failure to involve others along the way?

Simply live your your life 100%. Do what only you can do. Show as much magic as possible.

[Most people buy transactionally to make money or get laid, and non-transactionally to support things they like. Framing yourself as a utility lands you in the first category. People want a parasocial relationship with creators, and will pay to feel excused from not trying the creative path themselves. Doing and publishing isn't enough to land you in the second category: documenting and explaining in an artful way can become as important as what you're making. Maintaining a community implies being more active on social media.]

[Try camming.]

Earning $100 a day for 200 days in the year is $20K.

Earning $200 a day for 90 days in the year is $18K.

Earning $300 a day for 60 days in the year is $18K.

Nobody watches or notices, but what quietly accumulates through practice and experience is credibility.

Similar to language, it might be useful to perform songs slightly under-prepared so that you can start accommodating shortcomings sooner.