Journal

160 entries under "thought"

Monday, March 18, 2024

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

Follow what feels fun instead of clever ideas.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Avoid social structures that use a calculator.

Friday, March 15, 2024

There are no leftist startups.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

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.

Monday, March 11, 2024

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

Sunday, March 10, 2024

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.

Friday, March 8, 2024

[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.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Basic building layers: data, identity, aggregation, search.

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Instead of unsustainable ‘sprints’, take each day as an opportunity to integrate your values holistically.

It’s useful to journal or take notes even if they aren’t synthesized, just as it is to take photos even if they aren’t synthesized.

Other people could be more inclined to get involved when it’s aligned with their current goals, when it feels like riding the same bus together.

I wish for you everything you wish for those people over there.

Friday, March 1, 2024

Instead of ‘proving someone wrong’, why not help improve their capacities?

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Anti-JavaScript could be called “antija”.