Journal

30 entries for Berlin

Monday, April 29, 2024

“don’t want to do tech but doing it anyway”

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Don’t Fuck It Up!

[Randomize your MAC address often.]

[Tor is for anonymity, not encryption: you need to configure it to avoid sending unencrypted data.]

Monday, June 5, 2023

[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.]

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

[It’s hard to see how funny-shaped the box is from inside.]

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

I like people who can take pleasure in ordinary experience.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

[The ‘diamond model’ describes expanding to generate lots of ideas without judgement, followed by the convergence towards making choices about what is pertinent.’]

Information wants to be free but rent isn’t.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

[I don’t apologize.]

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

If you’re feeling intimidated, let them stretch you.